USA TODAY International Edition
CROSSWORD
RAMEN
ACROSS
1 Chore list heading 5 Chain with many 24/7 eateries 9 Places for Christmas lights 14 Wilson of “Midnight in Paris” 15 Long locks
16 Like a dab hand 17 “Cool beans!” 18 Many former lambs
19 Far from verbose 20 “Mr. Bean” star 23 It quakes in the wind
24 Barn section 25 Mobile CP Re xpert 26 Styled after 27 Feel punky
29 Baby panda 31 Basketball’s Metta World Peace, until 2011
35 Of the Holy See 39 Dissenter’s prefix 40 “Caught ya!” 41 French Riviera city 42 Wall Street skeptics 44 Zombies’ founder and keyboardist 47 Hither’s partner 49 Yard glass filler 50 Musk, to Tesla 51 Support under a blouse
54 Woof Delights brand 57 Stored on disk 59 First Hall of Famer inducted as a Blue Jay 62 Brush-off to a pledge seeker 63 Dump emanation 64 Prefix with medic or legal
67 “Oh! What a girl!” girl of song 68 Simba’s mate 69 Bullet point entry 70 They’re laid down in boatyards 71 “American Dad!” dad
72 Johnny of “Sleepy Hollow”
DOWN
1 Whole bunch
2 Have yet to settle up 3 Pre-Christmas letter starter 4 Leading the field 5 “This is no joke!” 6 Goldie of “Bird on a Wire” 7 “Shaqtin’ a Fool” host
8 Sauce with basil 9 Swallow something hook, line and sinker 10 Yemeni port
11 Part of an ode 12 Surrey racetrack town
13 Heart surgeon’s insert 21 Deteriorate through use 22 Chain with meals in buckets 23 How solitaire is played
26 Many a 10-Down native
28 King of tragedy 30 Cherry bomb sound
32 Far from stuffy 33 “The Affair” network
34 Bit of mock fanfare 36 Per-unit pay 37 Broken out, in a way
38 Jared of “Suicide Squad” 43 Evening bashes 45 Romney, in 2012
46 Berate, with “out” 48 D’Back’s D.C. rival
51 Like a rapid walk 52 Elephant gone amok
53 Cause to eat humble pie 55 Mars’ pair 56 1978 Nobelist Anwar
58 Lacking zest 60 Downright dastardly 61 “Damn Yankees” vamp
65 Sales staffer, for short
66 Fuse unit