USA TODAY US Edition

FINAL BUZZER

- BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Ernest and Julio’s winery

6 Suburban street liners 10 Wearing wingtips, say

14 Sci-fi invader 15 Lender’s attachment 16 Braxton of “Braxton Family Values”

17 Fashionabl­e no more

18 Flush topper

20 Involve by necessity

22 Swamp wader

23 Zeppelin relative

26 Places for cuffs

27 Quadriceps cramp, maybe

31 50-Down material

32 Fresh face on the staff

33 MASH bed

36 Grandpa Simpson

37 Basis for a senior discount

39 “No preference”

40 Regret bitterly

41 Kix or Trix container

42 Third-party candidate of 1992 and 1996

44 Reduce to rubble

45 World’s largest lizard

48 Mistletoe bits

51 Dozer’s vision

52 Flared dress style

53 Bit playfully

57 Break in the hostilitie­s

62 Fry in just a little fat

63 Mother of royals Charlotte and George

64 Brutish sort

65 Accounting-fraud company in 2001 news

66 Obedience school command

67 Arizona city on the Colorado

68 Artery-opening implant DOWN 1 Stare slack-jawed

2 Rickman of Harry Potter movies

3 Shopper’s aid

4 Full-size Buick until

2005

5 Ed of “Modern Family”

6 Mall Santa’s assistant

7 Lucy who lends her voice to “Kung Fu Panda” 8 “Spaceballs” director Brooks

9 Sketch show from NYC

10 Cheap cigar

11 Storefront posting

12 Initial phase

13 Counts calories

19 John who wrote “Hiroshima”

21 Risk a perjury charge

24 Damsel’s appreciati­ve cry

25 Letter after upsilon

26 Brown songbird

27 Sidling sea creature

28 Depression-era rail rider

29 Pyramid point

30 Speaker at a dedication

33 Bighorn’s perch

34 Colorless Greek liqueur 35 Archie or Jughead, since 1941 37 Farthest orbital point

38 Crown inlays

43 Fit for Ripley’s, perhaps

44 Uncontroll­ed, as inflation

45 2004 Liam Neeson biopic

46 Cub Scout unit

47 Grows, as crops

48 Flour holders

49 Fold in a frock

50 Wrangler’s gear

54 Free of contaminan­ts 55 School with a royally appointed provost

56 Evidence of a hailstorm strike

58 Buzzer that can follow the last parts of 18-, 27-, 45- and

57-Across 59 Promise in a poker pot

60 Planter’s punch liquor

61 JFK landing stat

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© Andrews McMeel 11/3

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