USA TODAY CROSSWORD
RISING SIGN
ACROSS
1 Places to get
cash
5 Advanced creative writing degree
8 “This looks bad” 12 Chocolatey
coffee drink
14 Jazz legend
Fitzgerald
16 Lost Pixar fish
17 Parts of
sleepwear sets 19 Villain in the first
Bond movie
20 “Pillow Talk”
actress Day
21 “From my vantage point . . .”
23 Tiger, lion or
jaguar
25 Procedure with chest compressions
26 Tennis star
Osaka
27 Dishes that might contain Cool Whip
31 ___ carpet
34 Author Morrison 36 Damascus’
country
37 Poisonous
39 “What a
disaster!”
40 Marathon units 41 “Kiss me, I’m ___” 42 Hilarious person 44 Have a snack
45 Little scoundrel 47 Bit of thyme
49 Experiencing little to no romantic attraction, for short
50 Take initiative
52 Brewski-and-oj
drink
56 Ice cream
sandwich brand © Andrews Mcmeel
58 Automaker with
a four-ring logo 59 One of 100 Capitol Hill positions
62 Small, chirpy
bird
63 Concludes
64 ___ dreaming 65 Like a 3.5-hour
movie
66 Chiding sound 67 Snakelike fish
DOWN
1 Electric violin
booster
2 Warty hopper 3 Term that Mcdonald’s campaigned to have removed from the Oxford English Dictionary
4 “Generosity =
love”
5 Ran into 6 French desserts consisting of meringue in a sea of vanilla custard
7 European
mountain range 8 Core problem
9 “This is for you” 10 Prefix for
“present”
11 Owl sound
13 Female friend, in
Spanish
15 Sneaker brand 18 Wide tie
22 Involuntary jerky
movement
24 Love, in France 28 Folk singer
Guthrie
29 Runs out of juice 30 Accessory worn
diagonally
31 Mix with a spoon 32 Circle dance
33 Xory,ona
graph
3/18 35 “Fingers crossed” 38 “Third time’s the
___!”
43 Characteristic
46 “___ lips sink
ships”
48 Inside info
51 Mirabel, to Bruno, in “Encanto”
52 Weep loudly
53 Coin in Spain or
France
54 Biblical garden 55 Email folder
57 Wagging part of
a dog
60 Inquire
61 QB’S scores