USA TODAY CROSSWORD
EDITED Amanda Rafkin BY Robyn Weintraub
WHERE’S THE VACUUM? (FREESTYLE)
ACROSS
1 Draped wedding garment
5 Sound-boosting gear
9 “___ Dalloway”
12 Fruit with a Bosc and D’Anjou variety
13 Snow day footwear
15 Sci-fi princess who said, “Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?”
16 “Bearded” flower
17 2006 musical film starring Jennifer Hudson
19 Mint container
20 Fluffy messes with cutesy names
21 Baby frog
23 On edge
24 Locke known as the “Dean of the Harlem Renaissance”
25 Roadside emergency light
28 Piece that gets checkmated
29 Rhyming, molasses-based dessert
34 Corner PC key
35 Golf course area between a tee and a green
36 Off-roading vehicle, for short
37 Aid for reaching a high shelf
39 AmEx alternative
40 Judges’ garments
41 “Space: the ___ frontier”
42 Tony’s love in “West Side Story”
45 Japanese massage technique
47 Vehicle that gets plugged in
51 “Maude” actress Arthur
52 Has to wait until the next round, say
53 Actor and LGBT rights activist Bomer
54 Many bills in a tip jar
55 Hopped up on coffee
56 Robin’s egg color
57 Pingpong divider
58 Stitches
59 Swiss mountain range
DOWN
1 Messy slapstick reactions
2 Trapeze artist
3 Tribal ritual designed to bring precipitation
4 Tax-collecting agcy.
5 “American Idol” alum Paula
6 Code with dots and dashes
7 Amanda Gorman or Maya Angelou
8 Attempt
9 Word before “badge” or “raise”
10 Agitates
11 Flippant
14 Fort Worth sch.
15 “Love Actually” actress Laura
18 “Totally rad”
20 Actor Cheadle
22 Wilbur or Spider-Ham
25 Crosses, like a river
26 Fashion designer Ann
27 In the distance
29 Former Swedish automaker
30 ___ and seek
31 Game that uses dye-filled capsules
32 “Don’t fall for their trap!”
33 Appraises
35 What a buoy does
38 Numbers next to dollar signs
39 By way of
41 Evergreen tree
42 Honeydew, e.g.
43 How solitaire is played
44 Bowling lane button
45 Metal fastener
46 Moving parts on an analog watch
48 Uncooked
49 “That’s just the way ___”
50 Remedy
53 Business deg.