USA TODAY CROSSWORD
EDITED Amanda Rafkin
BY May Huang & Rafael Musa
LAST KISS
ACROSS
1 Enemy of Simba and Mufasa
5 Part of a rapid COVID test
9 Some viral images 14 “And there you have it!”
15 State south of Minnesota
16 Basic font
17 Micro or macro subject
18 Nana
19 Evelyn “Champagne”
King genre 20 Apology offered after swearing 23 Wine country county next to Napa
24 Gave kibble to 25 Queen of Arendelle 28 Relieve with aloe, say
33 Feature of a Southern 52-Across, often 37 Frozen drink
39 Frog’s partner in childrens’ books 40 Person talking to everyone at a party
43 Similar
44 “Como ___ usted?” 45 Makes a sulky face 46 Cash in
48 Red “Sesame Street” character 50 ___ the wrong way 52 Dialect coach’s focus 57 Defusing a misunderstanding 62 Cooks in bubbling water
63 Not loose
64 Type of whale that goes through menopause 65 Emerged
66 Raison d’___
67 Flower part
68 Had a nice meal 69 Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album
70 They have 60 mins.
DOWN
1 What fitness trackers count 2 Chocolate source 3 Decorate
4 Total stranger
5 Use a car’s blinkers
6 Wriggly invertebrate
7 Not home
8 Town home to Canada’s oldest national park
9 Got by
10 Activist Brockovich 11 Catchall category, for short
12 To ___ their own 13 ___-pitch softball 21 Last Greek letter 22 Stopwatch button 26 Bro and sis
27 Like a 30-degree angle
29 Other, in Spanish 30 Sundubu-jjigae ingredient
31 Come to an abrupt stop
32 Ice cream brand 33 Old Russian ruler 34 Stopped sleeping 35 Substance with a low pH
36 Number of lives cats are said to have
38 “And others” in Latin
41 Primate such as Zoboomafoo 42 Period of history 47 Used the back of a pencil 49 States of ___ (solid, liquid, gas, plasma) 51 Takes the bait 53 Corp. bigwigs 54 Third planet from the sun 55 More pleasant 56 Amusement park shuttles
57 Congresswoman Bush
58 Simba or Mufasa 59 “Or ___!” (threatening words) 60 Peacekeeping grp. with an alphabet 61 Spiritual teacher 62 “I can make the
___ guys good for a weekend” ( Taylor Swift lyric)