USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

BARNYARD BABIES ACROSS

1 Pie target, in slapstick

5 Home to a pet rabbit 10 Impatient driver’s attention-getter 14 Site that started as AuctionWeb 15 In unison

16 Drool pool creator of comics

17 ___ Decor (home design magazine) 18 Beginning skier’s area

20 Displaying dexterity

21 Blood pressurera­ising emotion 22 Ran on TV 23 Interestin­g, as a movie role 25 Most liked, casually 27 “That’s my theory” 29 Lenny or Carl, to Homer Simpson

33 Lab procedures

34 Rocky or Apollo, in “Rocky”

35 “___ tree falls in the forest . . .”

36 Carve, as one’s initials 37 Encycloped­ia volumes, e.g.

38 Bank acct. insurer

39 Fraction of an inch

40 Solomon and Solon

41 Book cited in a sermon

42 Tenderloin or T-bone

44 Sprayed graffiti on, say

45 Criticizes, with “down”

46 Small role for a big star

47 Dam on the Nile

50 Place for a martini

51 Pack overhead

54 Movie for a girls’ night out

57 Words of self-pity

58 Have some munchies 59 Rotating woodshop tool

60 Criminolog­ist’s clue

61 Sport with parries

62 Turn topsy-turvy

63 Necessitat­es a do-over, perhaps

DOWN

1 Cracked corn, to chickens

2 Far from inept 3 Achilles tendon attachment

4 Upper canines

5 Daily routines

6 Loan shark’s offense

7 Voicemail cue

8 ___ Airport (JFK or ORD TV fare)

9 “You there!”

10 More saintly

11 Garbage scow emanation 12 Having a foul

11-Down 13 Financial aid factor 19 Enjoy, as a gourmet would

24 Aesopian beast in lion’s skin

25 Kits’ parents

26 Leaves breathless

27 Couples in gossip columns 28 Question after a bad joke, perhaps

29 Icy orbiter

30 Pesky sibling, often

31 IRS submission option 32 Competed in a slalom

34 “Not true, dude!” 37 Negotiator’s asset

38 Clearance of smokedamag­ed goods, perhaps

40 Animal whose spray has a foul

11-Down 41 Emeril catchword

43 Geronimo’s tribe

44 Offer on

14-Across, e.g. 46 Weapons stockpile, e.g.

47 Teen’s outbreak

48 Word with body or beauty

49 Like 40-Across

50 Parts of a comic routine

52 Sharif of “Che!”

53 Leaves the single life

55 Cause of fever

56 Toy dog’s perch

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© Andrews McMeel 2/5

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