USA TODAY CROSSWORD
PERIOD PIECES ACROSS
1 Drain problem
5 “Seems ___” (“I think it’s valid”)
10 Still competing
14 Epic tale
15 Wear away
16 Extinct bird
17 Prince song with a colorful name
19 Cookie with fondant filling
20 “Am not!” rebuttal
21 Ctrl-___-Del
22 Rib-eye, e.g.
23 “Rodeo” singer Lil ___ X
24 Container for cookies or sewing supplies
26 Emotionally removed
28 Do a little of this and a little of that
32 “Ideally . . .”
35 Part of the ear or brain
36 Neither’s partner
37 Prepare rooibos
38 Mutual ___
39 Doing nothing
40 Comic DeLaria
41 Rickshaw, e.g.
43 Polish city where Chopin’s heart is buried
45 Number of euros to the dollar, e.g.
48 Like Ugadi and Holi
49 Kitchenware brand
50 ___ your wage (do only the work you’re paid to do)
53 Jack who could eat no fat
55 Docs’ degrees
57 “You can’t be serious!” 59 Writer such as Mahmoud Darwish
60 Download that offers forecasts
62 Name hidden in “thesaurus”
63 “Come in!”
64 Mandy Gull-Masty’s heritage
65 Marries 66 “Don’t ___ with me!”
67 Puts two and two together
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1 Channel that covers Congress
2 Olympic gymnast Zeng
3 Shrek and Fiona
4 Spaces between things
5 Actor Pace
6 Off the mark
7 Word after “longterm” or “field”
8 Annual Alaskan sled dog race
9 Number of decades in a century
10 “Samesies!”
11 “All sales are final”
12 “Can I bounce an ___ off you?”
13 Nabbed
18 Flower in yeonkkot-cha
22 Achy
25 Addams Family cousin
27 Room with Bunsen burners
28 Church seat
29 Top-notch
30 The Crescent City, for short
31 Sketched
32 Up to the task
33 Dino such as Barney
34 Book that might be enjoyed on a vacation
38 Quarrel
39 Wrath
41 “You ___ win ’em all”
42 “Your point being?”
43 Crayon stuff
44 Repent
46 Short break in activity
47 List of team members
50 Emmy or Grammy
51 Like Batgirl, costume-wise
52 Uses a keyboard
53 Gush forcefully
54 Asana
56 Statistical info
58 Ocean predator
60 “Red Eye” director Craven
61 Regimen that might involve estrogen (Abbr.)