USA TODAY CROSSWORD
HITS DIFFERENT ACROSS
1 Small whirlpool
5 Cheerwine or Dr. Brown’s
9 Headbutts
13 “Pi r squared” calculation
14 Motorist’s 180
15 Clickable desktop image
16 Softest mineral
17 Destined
18 Poke bowl fish
19 “Star Wars” antagonists titled “Darth”
21 Object “fed” when parking
22 Alphabet system in which “D” is 3-Down
23 Classic Puccini opera
25 Hole in a needle
26 Dirt for a potted plant
28 “The Memory Police” author Ogawa
30 Inquire
33 Formerly named
35 Do some electrical repairs
39 1984 mockumentary about a fictional heavy metal band
43 “Dennis the ___”
44 Slow-cooker meal
45 “Me day” place
46 Enter a phone number
48 Colorful eye part 50 Endometriosis Awareness Day mo.
53 Gives off
55 Distorts, like data 59 Radio station sign
61 “Subway Art” singer
63 Not attend
64 ___ Lama
65 Sit for a photo
66 Disney snow queen
67 Pressed Ctrl+Z
68 Blues great James
69 Pumpkin bit that might be baked
70 Like Easter eggs
71 Search for
DOWN
1 Consumes
2 Sap energy from
3 Atlanta-based airline
4 Luxury boats
5 Catches by surprise
6 Perform better than
7 Like clothes at a formal event
8 “Furthermore . . .”
9 Bar mitzvah or baptism
10 Opposite of obtuse
11 What’s not used in a barter system
12 Drum often heard on a backbeat
14 Sci-fi ship
20 British bathroom
21 Instruction before blowing out a birthday candle
24 Word before “store” or “booth”
27 Tailor’s pants measurement
29 “Great horned” bird of prey
30 Device that requires a PIN
31 ___/her
32 Family
34 Music releases with four to six tracks
36 Part of FWIW
37 GloRilla’s genre
38 Org. concerned with the ozone layer
40 Feeling low
41 More frosty
42 “According to legend . . .”
47 Lengthy list
49 Video chats, in a way
50 He was given the Ten Commandments
51 Joint covered by a high-top sneaker
52 Ideal result of union negotiations
54 ~
56 Overplay a part
57 “___ not, want not”
58 Move furtively
60 Tablet with Mini and Air versions
62 Kept out of sight
64 Defective firecracker