USA TODAY International Edition

OPENING ARGUMENTS

- BY Alan Arbesfeld

ACROSS 1 Dowdy sort 6 Dot on a radar screen 10 They’re run up in bars 14 Like “The Twilight Zone” episodes 15 Warrior Dash, for one 16 Ferry destinatio­n, perhaps 17 Kitchen utensils buy 19 Cause of a free throw, often 20 Costa del ___ 21 “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” musical 22 Designer of an eponymous tower 24 Finder’s reward 25 Fate, informally 27 Like the noble elements 31 Anheuser- Busch, to the Super Bowl 35 Score before a service break, perhaps 36 Galileo’s birthplace 38 Leadership org. for females 39 Master of a 24- Down 40 First name in late- night TV 41 Figure skater’s maneuver 42 Polygon measure 43 Murray with two Olympic golds in tennis 44 Watts of “The Impossible” 45 Rod of “The Twilight Zone” 47 Went into a losing streak 49 Off the sauce 51 Dada pioneer Jean 52 Town square figure, perhaps 55 Right- hand person 57 Place for a rest cure 60 Magma, after surfacing 61 Clint Eastwood’s role on “Rawhide” 64 Decrease the word count, say 65 Ham and Swiss holder 66 Hit the roof 67 Ford a shallow river, say 68 Church recess 69 Wedding memento

DOWN 1 Admit guilt, with “up” 2 Home foreclosur­e, for short 3 River to the Caspian Sea 4 Sch. near Harvard 5 French automaker with a lion logo 6 Toot one’s own horn 7 Vision correction surgery 8 Diamonds, slangily 9 Leader of the Lost Boys 10 Art Nouveau piece with a glass shade 11 Starting from 12 Down in the dumps 13 Stockbroke­r’s advice, perhaps 18 In ___ of ( replacing) 23 Texter’s “If you ask me . . .” 24 Society with vassals and fiefs 26 Analyzes, as ore 27 White- tie affairs 28 Be wild about 29 More peeved 30 Kitchen or car wash need 32 Dive like an eagle 33 Christmas carol starter 34 BART part 37 Like Maine’s Sen. Angus King 40 Capital Down Under 44 Longtime dance partner of Fonteyn 46 Chit left in a pot 48 Word before Luck or Gaga 50 “A Natural Man” singer Lou 52 Whole bunch 53 “I did it!” 54 Voracious, like a reader 56 Just sitting around 57 Poker variety 58 Toon skunk Le Pew 59 Concerning, on a memo 62 Comics caveman Alley 63 Jackie O’s man, in headlines

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