USA TODAY CROSSWORD

IN TANDEM

ACROSS 1 “Rough” or “final” version of an essay 6 Serve drinks 13 Harm 15 Colorful period

after sunset 16 Stars of dishes 18 Major cause of the

racial wealth gap 19 Great grade 22 Computer command after a mistake 23 “Yours, Mine

and ___” 27 Mortgage, for

example 28 Jobs 29 Part of a comic

strip 30 Language with

handshapes 31 Runs a scam on 32 Successfully

reaches 33 Thick floor 17 Sticking with paste

covering 19 “Sadly . . .” 35 Container of 20 Fancy

beans 21 In ___ land 36 Stay ___ 24 So bad it can’t be 37 Shrill bark DOWN put into words

38 State symbols of 1 Sparsely lit 25 Comes back

Maine 2 Bivalent booster 26 Casino machines 40 Social media molecules 28 Rise

messages 3 ___ verde 29 Retirement 41 Garnet, amethyst (Peruvian green payment

or pearl sauce) 31 Dire situation 42 Tehran’s country 4 Rhyming race 32 Talk a lot 43 Small places to jot 5 Exerts effort 34 Athlete on a

things down 6 Mixtures of spices beam 46 Sport bike brand or coffee beans 35 Approach named after a 7 Sound feed 38 “Black type of feudal 8 Strap attached to Panther: Japanese warrior a horse Wakanda 47 GPS approximations 9 Nickname for the Forever” star best player in the Wright 48 Went out with history of a sport 39 ___ horse 49 Aid and ___ 10 Very long period (mythical 52 Bombard of time wooden “gift”) 53 Opera solos 11 Pistachio or pecan 40 Holiday 54 Agency that 12 Gastroenterologists, during which investigates unfair etc. Lakshmi Puja labor practices (Abbr.) is performed 55 Numerical prefix 14 Conclude 41 Small racing

for “cycle” or “pod” 15 Takes along vehicle

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56 Sticky stuff on roads

57 Notable period in history 3/16

43 Alma ___

44 Nothing, in

Spanish

45 Auction offers

46 Held on to

50 ___ on the side of

caution

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