USA TODAY US Edition

LAST REWRITES

- BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Plantation units

6 Levine of Maroon 5

10 Sighed interjecti­on

14 Puff up, as an ego

15 Facetious nickname for a big guy

16 ___ stick (classic toy) 17 Baked potato toppers, perhaps

19 Place to brown buns

20 Midriff muscles, briefly

21 Church tower sound

22 Comerica Park nine

24 Sound of a blender blade

25 Egg boiler’s aid

26 Dead on one’s feet

29 Lounge pianists may take them 32 Tree with fluttering leaves

33 Arrange a date for

34 Initials on a packed house

35 Like gruel

36 “The Divine Comedy” poet 37 Carb-rich vegetable, slangily

38 Female Leghorn

39 MLB draft decisions

40 Cowpoke’s rope

41 Smudges on test papers, perhaps

43 Quarter’s threesome

44 Jabs, from most boxers

45 2017 hurricane after Irma

46 Approve, as a law

48 Needing a rubdown, perhaps

49 Belittle, slangily

52 OPEC charter member

53 It’s not yet in history books

56 Peace offering that’s passed 57 Wearing road grays, say

58 Like the worm-catcher, in a saying

59 Cheeky talk

60 Top scores from a “Dancing With the Stars” judge 61 Incorporat­e, as the U.S. did Texas

DOWN

1 Pop group with a Stockholm museum

2 Alley Oop’s weapon

3 Goes to seed

4 Partake of a smorgasbor­d

5 Quipster Colbert

6 For face value

7 Start a phone call

8 Colonist in a hill

9 That certain something 10 Outermost orbital point 11 Couple’s clash 12 Word after New or golden

13 Word after “&,” in business names 18 Tara of “Sharknado”

23 “Stop shaking me!”

24 “___ in the course of human events . . .” 25 Messages often typed with thumbs

26 Enjoy a soak

27 Theater or church worker

28 Lumbar punctures

29 Curling venues

30 “Dare” alternativ­e, in a party game

31 Teetotaler­s’ quaffs

33 Pair on a king or jack

36 Cagney impersonat­or’s phrase 37 Trigonomet­ry function

39 Magic dragon of song

40 Drink brewed from petals

42 Cod fishermen’s gear

43 Daybreak, in verse

45 Babies in pouches

46 Tights mishaps

47 Oratorio highlight

48 Read, as a bar code

49 Mend with thread

50 Maroon’s home

51 River between Earth and Hades

54 Bleating source of milk 55 Deep-dish pizza holder

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© Andrews McMeel 11/8

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