USA TODAY International Edition
PUZZLES CROSSWORD
DOWN PAT
ACROSS
1 Mother Abbess in “The Sound of Music,” for one
4 Out of kilter
9 Football play starter
13 Key above a ~
14 “Us” director Jordan
15 Marco ___ ( pool game)
16 Caboose
18 Andrea Gibson works
19 French friends
20 Forging a signature, e. g
22 Ability to jump high, slangily
23 Vampire hunter’s weapon
24 ___ wafers
26 First completed part of a jigsaw puzzle, often
27 Actress Seyfried
30 Strong thread
32 Indonesian island
33 Crosswords and sudoku, for two
38 Beyonce and Lady Gaga, e. g.
40 Chip in
41 Plagiarized
42 Movie featuring the truffle shuffle
45 Cindy Crawford feature
46 Some realtors’ offerings
47 Took notice
49 Rhyming buddy
52 “Every Rose Has Its ___”
54 Lead- in to some bad news
55 Modern sweetie
56 Book for a geography buff 60 Shoe insert
61 Like six- pack abs
63 Like thighs after Leg Day
64 ___ melt ( deli offering) 65 “I yield!”
66 Arthur of “Maude”
67 Thick slice
68 Honking birds in a “V” formation
69 Enjoy some gefilte fish
DOWN
1 Foam dart brand
2 One with a password
3 Org. with the Walter Byers Scholarship
4 Grindr or Her
5 City that’s home to Gyeongbokgung
6 Don’t allow too close
7 Stately trees
8 Craven of horror
9 Massages and seaweed wraps, for two
10 Wanderer
11 Similar 12 Unoriginal person
17 Accumulating charges, say 21 “Oops! . . . I ___ It Again”
23 Spotify downloads
25 One- credit class, maybe
26 The Container Store purchase
27 Slightly
28 ___ 1 ( speed of sound)
29 Lip balm ingredient
31 Like EEE shoes
34 Tirade
35 Word before ring or swing
36 Activist Hearns
37 Baked pumpkin bit
39 Sub system
43 Latke making need
44 “The L Word” network
48 Historic chapter
49 Hanukkah offerings
50 Run ___ of
51 Songwriter Lewis 2/ 10
53 Shoes that may be carried by the end of the night
55 “I have a ___ to pick with you!”
57 Brain section
58 Domain
59 Theatergoer’s selection
61 ___ of war
62 Aisha of “The Bold Type”