USA TODAY CROSSWORD

SET TO THE SIDE

ACROSS

1 Letters next to the 2

on a phone keypad 4 Red light meaning 8 Duckling’s dad

13 The Caribbean, e.g. 14 Mustache parts

16 Holder of an

unfinished painting 17 Eve song with the lyric “And I’m gonna take my time”

20 Detergent capsules 21 Knotted

22 Change the

color of

23 Studies hurriedly

25 Like a queen

26 Pointed part of a

fox

27 Third-person

pronoun

28 Nonfiction film, for

short

29 Third-person

pronoun

31 “Beware the ___ of

March”

33 Grooves made by

wheels

35 Helpful section of a

website

38 WNBA team owned by the Mohegan Tribe

41 Don’t leave

42 ___ Rachel Wood 43 Korean-made cars 45 Household animal 47 Rock music genre 48 Place for gloss

49 Class above jrs.

52 Go to the other

side of the street

54 Comedian Kearney 56 Zodiac lion

57 Pay to borrow

58 Comment from a

kitten

59 Comment after

making a bad pun 64 Sparkly headpiece 65 Top-tier

66 Single-stranded

molecule

© Andrews Mcmeel

67 “Get lost!”

68 Heaviest fencing

sword

69 Young human or

goat

DOWN

1 Language that influenced Protactile

2 Buzzing insect

3 Longhair’s owner

4 Loses fur

5 Keep ___ on (monitor)

6 Coconut ___

7 Two-strand twists, for example

8 Exercise in which a weight is raised to hip level

9 Animal associated with Aries

10 “All kidding ___ . . .” 11 Nairobi’s country 12 Senior community member

15 Big taste of a drink 18 Queen Ramonda, to Shuri 19 “Uh-huh”

23 Stylish

24 Second attempts 25 Path from point A

to point B

28 Kinshasa’s country,

for short

30 Sleep aid with a

strap

32 Brittle ginger

cookie

34 Pyramid schemes,

for example 36 Indigenous art form that uses porcupine spines 37 Slimy creature

with a shell 39 Moisturizer applied above the cheekbones 40 ___, dos, tres 44 Secret agent 46 Pine or oak 49 Features of

some skirts 50 Old artifact

51 Sun-related 53 “Go easy ___”

54 Brawl

55 “Sounds rough”

58 Homophone of

“meet”

60 Mrs., in Spanish

61 Small taste of a

drink

62 Prefix for “cycle” or

“corn”

63 Teeny bit