USA TODAY CROSSWORD
QUICKSTARTS ACROSS
1 Dip for tortilla chips 6 Theater chain
9 Common resume
file format
12 Emergency contraceptive brand
13 Societal standard 15 Chapter of history 16 Seaweeds, for
example
17 Doom’s rhyming
partner
19 Star Wars villain
Kylo ___
20 Band with the 1977
album “Rumours” 23 Korean alcohol
26 Narrow valley
27 Like a cat owner’s
clothes, often
28 Poet laureate
Limon
29 Whine
30 Tennis champion
Ash
31 Musical pace
33 Stares rudely
34 Ground-shaking phenomenon caused by an Eras Tour crowd
38 Coop bird
39 Decisive defeat
40 Japanese
buckwheat noodle 44 “Asteroid City”
director Anderson 45 “Song of Solomon”
author Morrison 46 Kate Bush genre 48 Desert havens
50 Virtue’s
counterpart
52 Spigot
53 Drink brand with lemon and peach varieties
57 Cheers’ opposites 58 “Seconds, please!” 59 Textured and
uneven
63 Moon goddess
64 Pi times radius squared, for a circle
65 Give a speech © Andrews McMeel
66 Online hub for
crafts
67 Zoloft, Lexapro,
etc., informally 68 Gold purity
measurement
DOWN
1 Place for a mud
bath
2 “___ I Want for
Christmas Is You”
3 Network delay
4 Serious mishap
5 Biblical shepherd
6 “Way Up” host Yee 7 Like a chocolate
lava cake’s center 8 Dental cap
9 Allows
10 Cheerless
11 Like many galas
14 ___ shu pancakes 18 Easternmost of the
Six Nations
21 Sense of self
22 ___ timeline (worst
possible trajectory) 23 Exam for some
H.S. juniors 24 Beethoven’s “___
to Joy”
25 Impromptu jazz
performances 29 “Who, me?”
30 Ewe said it
32 Dominate, in
gamer lingo
33 “Trust your ___” 35 To and ___
36 Large weight
unit
37 Trembled
38 Listen to the
concerns of
41 Decide
42 Feathery scarf 43 Snapchat or
TikTok
44 Line dance named for an unsteady movement
45 Scolding sound 46 Segment of a
musical
47 Adidas
competitor
49 English class
submission
12/6
51 Brainstorming
results
54 Mosque prayer
leader
55 Earth’s center
56 Mystical vibe
60 Pi Day month, for
short
61 School bake sale
organizer (Abbr.) 62 Up to now