USA TODAY CROSSWORD

SPLITTING DESSERT

ACROSS 1 The Three B’s of classical music: Brahms, Beethoven and ___ 5 The epidermis is its

outermost layer 9 Winter Games gear 13 Succulent used in

cosmetics 14 Grand ___ National

Park 16 Sheet of glass 17 Inherited DNA

sequence 18 Performance with

arias 19 A single time 20 Midwestern city where some people call paper grocery bags “Hamady sacks” 23 Retina’s place 25 Spherical veggies 26 Dance taught by

Keali’i Reichel 15 Cheese-smothered 27 Allow chip

28 Word hidden 21 Drink whose “I” backward in stands for “India” “portrait” 22 Wednesday, aka

29 Dong, in baseball ___ day

32 Daredevil aka ___ 23 Trees with helicopter

Murdock seeds

34 Grain storage tower 24 “I’m down!”

36 Ad 29 “Wait a minute . . .” 37 Henley or DOWN 30 “A” in Portuguese

button-down 1 “The cat’s out of the 31 Neither/___

39 Like most NBA ___!” 33 Cafeteria plate

players 2 Nickname for holder 41 Fly high Alejandra 35 ___-back 42 Torah holder 3 Celebratory shreds (easygoing) 44 They’re said after 4 Shoe that adds 38 Not a full-on

vows height haircut 46 Legendary ghost 5 People prone to the 40 Series with ship from the munchies hobbits, for Netherlands 6 Didn’t give up short 53 “Hi! I’m a sheep!” 7 Things 43 Got down to 54 Spice Girl B or C 8 Uramaki seaweed propose 55 Mammal like a 9 Show ruiners 45 Word after

human or ape 10 Animal on the “rocket” or 56 ___ ants Australian coat of “computer” 58 Ants on a ___ arms 46 Didn’t succeed 60 Radiates 11 Machu Picchu builder 47 Texas city with 61 Occasional 12 Word in a read a Jalapeno

meat-eater receipt Festival

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65 Bit of body art, for

short

66 Passover meal

67 Subject of

conversation

68 Knee ligament

69 Medication amount 70 Had a potty mouth 71 Mike and ___ candies 11/29 48 Is a smug winner

49 “Let me think . . .”

50 Rhyming rum cocktail

51 “___ on Titan”

52 Get snug

53 Close pals, for short 57 Former lovers

59 Get bigger

62 Anger

63 Stock market debut 64 Up in the ___ Monday’s Answer