USA TODAY CROSSWORD
LAST KISS
ACROSS
1 Enemy of Simba
and Mufasa
5 Part of a rapid
COVID test
9 Some viral images 14 “And there you
have it!”
15 State south of
Minnesota
16 Basic font
17 Micro or macro
subject
18 Nana
19 Evelyn “Champagne”
King genre
20 Apology offered
after swearing
23 Wine country county next to Napa
24 Gave kibble to
25 Queen of Arendelle 28 Relieve with aloe,
say
33 Feature of a Southern 52-Across, often
37 Frozen drink
39 Frog’s partner in
childrens’ books
40 Person talking to everyone at a party
43 Similar
44 “Como ___ usted?” 45 Makes a sulky face 46 Cash in
48 Red “Sesame
Street” character 50 ___ the wrong way 52 Dialect coach’s focus 57 Defusing a
misunderstanding 62 Cooks in bubbling
water
63 Not loose
64 Type of whale that goes through menopause
65 Emerged
66 Raison d’___
67 Flower part
68 Had a nice meal
69 Olivia Rodrigo’s
debut album © Andrews Mcmeel
70 They have 60 mins.
DOWN
1 What fitness
trackers count
2 Chocolate source 3 Decorate
4 Total stranger
5 Use a car’s
blinkers
6 Wriggly
invertebrate
7 Not home
8 Town home to Canada’s oldest national park
9 Got by
10 Activist Brockovich 11 Catchall category,
for short
12 To ___ their own
13 ___-pitch softball 21 Last Greek letter 22 Stopwatch button 26 Bro and sis
27 Like a 30-degree
angle
29 Other, in Spanish 30 Sundubu-jjigae
ingredient 31 Come to an abrupt
stop
32 Ice cream brand
33 Old Russian ruler 34 Stopped sleeping 35 Substance with a
low ph
36 Number of lives cats are said to have
38 “And others” in
Latin
41 Primate such as Zoboomafoo
42 Period of
history
47 Used the back
of a pencil
49 States of ___
(solid, liquid, gas, plasma)
51 Takes the
bait
53 Corp. bigwigs
54 Third planet
from the sun
55 More pleasant
56 Amusement
park shuttles
9/27 57 Congresswoman
Bush
58 Simba or Mufasa 59 “Or ___!”
(threatening words) 60 Peacekeeping grp.
with an alphabet 61 Spiritual teacher 62 “I can make the
___ guys good for a weekend” (Taylor Swift lyric) Tuesday’s Answer