USA TODAY CROSSWORD

SOUL MATES

ACROSS 1 “I don’t know the answer, next question”

5 Stovetop items

9 Begin

14 Beauty chain

15 Woodwind instrument

16 Social no- no

17 Event to combat hunger

19 Ohio city

20 Not very many

21 Choose

22 Brooks and creeks

24 Workplace abbreviation whose P stands for “paid”

25 Thunder- andlightning event

26 Something I love to hear

31 Prof’s aides

32 Take to court

33 The Fugees, for example

34 “This is sooo frustrating”

35 Weird in a frightening way

38 URL letters before ://

39 Collide with

40 Four ___ kind ( poker hand)

41 Suffix for “Taiwan”

42 List of visited webpages

47 Kipchoge who broke his own world record at the 2022 Berlin Marathon

48 Day before a holiday

49 Watches a friend’s pooch

52 The r in “hru?”

53 More than damp

56 Skinny white tree

57 Journey from Union

Station

60 Informal words

61 “You’re the ___ of my life”

62 Korea’s continent

63 Has guests over

64 Ruby- colored parts of some guinea pigs

65 Guinea pigs, for example

DOWN

1 Little cloud of smoke

2 Soothing gel

3 Stash away

4 Feeling blue

5 Beluga whale relative

6 Slightly

7 Birth month for many Scorpios ( Abbr.)

8 Deals with

9 Like a night on which the Big Dipper is visible

10 “Ugh, that looks like the perfect destination”

11 ___ cadabra

12 Kitchen or study

13 Loads and loads

18 Braille components

23 ___ yum

24 Gift given for giving birth

25 Chemical compound such as cortisol

26 Lava’s underground counterpart

27 Actor’s prompt

28 Like many craft fair attendees

29 Sacred ceremony

30 ___ up ( absorb)

31 “Good point”

34 Muscles worked by situps

36 Hypotheticals

37 Places to grab a bite

43 Sticks to itself, like dress fabric

44 Collide with

45 Work hard for a goal

46 Baking appliance

49 Short race card, 1- 800- 320- 4280.

50 Capital city on a fjord

51 Stats on transcripts

52 Language often misrepresented as “Gen Z- speak”

53 Sage

54 Make revisions to

55 Sage beverages

58 ___ G. BIV ( rainbow mnemonic)

59 Fugees genre

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