USA TODAY International Edition
CROSSWORD ARE YOU MY MOTHER?
ACROSS
1 Redundant ending
for “most”
4 Sound of an air kiss
8 Say a prayer over 13 Bathroom in
Bloomsbury
14 Helpers
16 Restrict
17 Extremely
high- grade
20 Alphabetically first
Great Lake
21 Phoenix hoops
team
22 ___ ed
23 Civil rights icon
Septima
27 Greek vowels
29 Browsed on Grindr
31 Singer Simone
34 “Me Day” place
37 Film declared “Rotten” on Rotten
Tomatoes, perhaps 38 Seat at a counter 39 Some studs
43 Sing like Mason
Ramsey
44 Eeyou Istchee
people
45 “Crazy Rich
[ 47- Across]” actress Carmen
46 Athlete Phillips
47 See 45- Across
49 Cotton swabs
52 Moved sneakily
54 www.
navajotech.___
56 Physicians,
informally
58 Has some pad thai,
e. g.
61 Warm layer for
cold weather
66 “___ Go My Own
Way” ( Efron/ Hudgens duet)
67 Fallopian ___
68 Piece of a timeline 69 Get a whiff of
70 Class with long
division
Answers: Call 1- 900- 988- 8300, 71 What Marcie calls Peppermint Patty
DOWN
1 “What ___ is new?” 2 “___ Prom” ( Olivia Rodrigo concert film)
3 Thing to talk about 4 Pi Day’s month
( Abbr.)
5 Nintendo console
6 “Without further
___ . . .”
7 Possessive pronoun 8 Amazingly fun time 9 ___ Nas X
10 Greenhouse gas concerns
11 Location
12 River in Hades
15 Creature that squirts ink
18 Fish that are mostly nocturnal
19 Spanish for “one” 24 Really bad
25 Tick off
26 Blackpink genre
28 Not supporting
99 cents a minute; or, with a credit 30 Very long poems 32 Nonstarter
33 “Furthermore . . .” 34 Eyelid issue
35 “___ Unfortunate Souls” ( solo for Ursula)
36 Words said before saying what someone said
38 Screenplay
segment
40 Fellow, for short
41 Name that’s an anagram of a food staple 42 Back 47 Posh tie 48 Design detail,
for short
50 Like a best- case
scenario
51 Edible part of
okra
53 Movie director’s
attempts
54 Omelet
ingredients
55 Rhyming
partner of gloom card, 1- 800- 320- 4280. 57 Swim, swam, ___ 59 “True to the Game”
author Woods
60 Celeb
62 City known for
gooey butter cake
( Abbr.)
63 Hoops league
64 Word before
“black” or “pack” 65 Shade of gray