USA TODAY CROSSWORD
1 Island that hosts the Soul Beach Music Festival 6 Pranked with Cottonelle, for short 10 Has to
14 ___ jar (popular canning vessel)
15 Sign of use
16 Crushing on 17 Celebration on 3/14 18 “That’s all there ___ it!”
19 Confidentiality documents (Abbr.)
20 Cosmetic enhancements that might replace mascara
23 Male cat
24 Enjoy a book of poetry
25 Weed
28 “I messed up!”
31 Like Jupiter but not Zeus
35 The ___ Tour
37 “___ Te Ching”
38 Party item that’s filled with candy
39 Ordinary things that bring joy
42 Hits Ctrl+C
43 Letters expressing affection in ASL 44 Part of an udder
45 Cockamamie
46 “A blessing in disguise,” e.g.
48 Pigpen
49 Stay up studying 51 “Dope!”
53 Pictures from India’s Hindi-language movie industry 60 Continent that’s about 30% of Earth’s land area
61 “Kim’s Convenience” patriarch
62 Parts of schooners and catamarans
64 Woes of society 65 Bassoon accessory
66 Bert’s buddy
67 What elves make in Santa’s workshop 68 Terminates
69 “I can do it!”
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1 Electric guitarist’s need
2 Something a skateboarder may grind
3 Meat-grading org.
4 Toot one’s own horn
5 “On a different note . . .”
6 Candy whose name is a portmanteau of “twin sticks”
7 Annoying thing
8 Cafe or bistro
9 Flying bot
10 Bite-sized holey treat
11 Reverse
12 Die-hard fan
13 Chuck
21 Hams it up
22 Garments often worn with cholis
25 Surname that means “fish” in Italian
26 Hunter constellation
27 Florida city home to the Gasparilla Pirate Festival
29 ___ smear
30 Not liquid or gas
32 Fillies’ moms 33 Endlessly bothered
34 Disgusting
36 At-home Peloton offering 38 Satisfying ending
40 Skeptical
41 “The Peripheral” actor Goree
46 “Pass me the ball!”
47 “The Marvelous Mrs. ___”
50 Cognizant 52 Play really loudly
53 Worms or chum
54 Norway’s capital
55 Bloom in Diego Rivera’s “The Flower Seller”
56 Pundit’s essay
57 Some sets of parents
58 ___ chocolate chip
59 “Snap into a ___ Jim”
63 Observe ACROSS