USA TODAY CROSSWORD
GETTING ORIENTED (FREESTYLE)
ACROSS
1 “This is making my head ___!”
5 Requiring assistance
11 Fish eggs
14 Thus
15 Dish like ramen or pho
17 Place for a peephole
18 Some unsuccessful at-bats
19 ___ nerve (eye-brain connection)
21 “The Addams Family” cousin
22 ___ away (eats)
23 Device for catching butterflies
24 From rags to ___
27 Peru’s capital
29 Served with ice cream
31 Quick swim
33 Apt rhyme for “grab”
34 Wall Street debut, for short
35 Seine, Nile, Tigris, etc.
37 Compass direction
39 Compass direction
40 Summer or winter
42 Med school grads
43 ___ deco
44 Faux ___ (goof)
46 Tight-fitting ballet garment
50 “I’m down”
52 Sitting pretty for a photoshoot
54 Carly ___ Jepsen
55 “Please ___” (request to an unenthusiastic crowd)
57 Bathroom, in Britain
58 Gay ___ (Lady Gaga and Cher, e.g.) 60 Goof off
63 Winter sport with a sled
64 “You can’t come in here” sign
65 App customer
66 Pub pint
67 Think ___ of (admire)
68 “It happens to the ___ of us”
DOWN
1 Arizona city known for its red rocks
2 Push forward
3 “No other option for me”
4 Sushi seaweed
5 ___ and outs
6 “Oh, hey, I didn’t ___ you there!”
7 Compass direction 8 Modified 9 Big deer
10 “It’s not that ___”
11 Familiar regimens
12 One-up intellectually
13 Podcast installments, for short
16 Mary J. Blige genre
20 Midriff-revealing shirt
25 Words exchanged at the altar
26 Title for a gentleman
28 Core muscles
30 “___ Americana & the Heartbreak Prince” (Taylor Swift song)
32 Polish boiled dumpling
36 Expansive
37 “All is good between us”
38 Enjoy a quiet meal with a book, say
40 Verbalize
41 Quick snooze
42 Where bears hibernate
45 “Bye, now”
46 Singer Richie
47 Stir up, like an emotion
48 Groups of mountains
49 Gobi or Atacama, for example
51 Ring above an angel
53 Compass direction
56 ___ of least resistance
59 “Chemtrails Over the Country ___” (Lana Del Rey song)
60 Org. that regulates pacemakers
61 King, in Portuguese
62 Like a 49-Down