The Commercial Appeal

USA TODAY CROSSWORD

- EDITED Erik Agard BY Zhouqin Burnikel

SEAM RIPPER

ACROSS

1 Discipline

practiced on mats 5 “You ___ be

kidding me!”

10 Sports stars

14 Border on

15 Scornful look

16 ___ Grey tea

17 Tennis feat named for a Williams sister

19 Lotion additive

20 Wiccan celebratio­n of the winter solstice

21 “White Girls”

author Hilton

22 Helium-powered

airship

23 Figure skating

jump

25 The only bird with

calf muscles

27 Half of a

semicolon

28 Basketball team with a lightning bolt in its logo

33 Bit of folklore

34 ___-Caps (candy

brand)

35 Workplace for a

forensic scientist

39 Night school class 40 Billions of years

42 Boilermaki­ng is

one

43 Bits of folklore

46 ___ Disney World 48 Ceremonial

Pueblo room

49 “Get outta here,

fly!”

50 Carrot or jicama

52 Lion’s lair

53 Be responsibl­e for

managing

56 Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s instrument

58 Curator’s stuff

59 Nickname for

Rihanna

61 Bridle attachment­s 62 Luke’s twin in “Star

Wars” © Andrews Mcmeel

64 Current or

Courage

67 Short-term worker 68 Verb early in a

mandu recipe

69 Folklore monster 70 Big first for a baby 71 Leak slowly

72 OB-___

DOWN

1 Nickname for Yasmine

2 Do as commanded 3 Sikh title

4 Had dinner at midnight, for example

5 Org. supporting LGBTQ+ students

6 Store sign during a blowout

7 Spill a secret

8 Collection of cups, saucers, etc.

9 Body part with a humerus

10 Seder, for example 11 Acceptable, like an ID 12 Part of an ad

campaign

13 Got some shut-eye 18 “There’s always

___ year!” 22 Charred 24 “If all ___ fails . . .” 26 Gamer’s alteration 28 Education category that aptly includes botany

29 “Place” of financial

security

30 Very often

31 Counterpar­t of

radar

32 Asterisk, for

example 36 Failed

completely 37 Opponent 38 Garbanzo or

adzuki 41 Laborious task 44 “In what

way?” 45 Ride air

currents 47 Took a show

on the road 2/22

51 Ranking level

53 Seasonings in

shakers

54 Puts in jeopardy

55 Flying toy

57 Latin jazz legend

Puente

60 Frozen drink brand 63 Mobile download 65 Hat with a visor

66 “___ in Black”

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