USA TODAY CROSSWORD
RISING RATES
ACROSS
1 Sound-boosting gear
5 “Back in Black” group
9 Stealthily includes on an email
13 Body part a fortuneteller may read
14 Hammer or saw
15 Novelist Dessen
16 Heartfelt request
17 Delicate fabric
18 Ridiculous
19 /
21 Got up from a chair
23 “Little piggy”
24 Polytheistic religion originating from Japan
26 Relatively new
28 Cheese puff that turns fingers orange
30 Kickball material
32 Told an untruth
33 Places to get facials
35 Astronaut Ochoa
38 “___ Be Around” (Spinners song)
39 Most tidy
41 “___ Maria”
42 Vehicle that taxis before takeoff
44 Microbe
45 Twist
46 Bubbled rapidly, like water
48 Mammals that hold hands while sleeping
50 Inconsistent
52 “Bald” bird
54 “Back of My Mind” singer
55 Natural fence
57 Easy to understand
61 Wipe from a whiteboard
63 Dancing and singing
65 Posh
66 Soda bottle measurement
67 List with drinks and appetizers
68 Base x height, for a rectangle
69 Rode in a 42-Across
70 Line of stitching
71 Throw some dice
DOWN
1 Libby and TikTok 2 Place for a food court
3 “Kindly tell me more . . .”
4 Like the avocado on some avocado toast
5 Georgia’s capital (Abbr.)
6 Shoreline
7 Highest level of academic achievement
8 Artist and poet Wade
9 Forbid
10 Centerpiece of Oregon’s only national park
11 Printer brand
12 One might be worn to an Anything But Clothes party
15 Secondary wager
20 Popular song
22 Round object
25 “___ goes” (“Not it”)
27 Animation frame
28 Apt rhyme for “snip”
29 Sledding spot
31 Person entering a password
34 “Bridgerton” actor Rege-Jean
36 “Did I ___ tell you . . .”
37 Info about current events
39 Nor’s partner
40 Pollution in the sky
43 “___ Your Barbie Girl” (Ava Max song)
45 Extraordinary
47 Substance used to cure olives
49 Doting attention, briefly
50 Place to display knick-knacks
51 Danger
53 Insurer named for a volcano
56 Beavers’ creations
58 Italian currency
59 Figure skating leap
60 Not imaginary
62 Make a skirt, perhaps
64 Dim ___