USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

FIRE CHASERS

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Bruce Venzke

ACROSS

1 Cornfield cries

5 Dandy’s partner

9 Apt to mouth off

13 Cash in France

14 No Einstein

15 Diva’s big moment

16 Basic training figure 19 Humbly accept blame

20 Two- or threepoint­ers 21 Afternoon reception

22 Carry on, as war

23 Without a partner

26 Say “tsk!” to

28 Reynolds who played “Bandit”

32 Be too personal

33 Some draft selections

34 Birthplace of Columbus

35 Daydreamin­g, e.g.

39 As bad as it gets

40 Bucks’ mates

41 Small part of an iceberg

42 Rice Krispies sound

43 Hit the campaign trail

45 Stockyard enclosures

46 LP flaw

47 Pigeon’s call

49 Popular horse breed

53 Symbol of might

57 London’s Harrods, e.g.

59 Biblical “garden of God”

60 Mansard roof features 61 Airline with a star in its logo

62 Be too personal, with “around”

63 Unforeseen glitch

64 Promising, as one’s future

DOWN

1 Relinquish by treaty 2 New Age energy field

3 Order in the court?

4 Phrase on a receipt

5 Courier 10 italic, e.g.

6 Audit org. 7 Halfway decent 8 Really tick off

9 Fill a trunk, say 10 Designer born Romain de Tirtoff 11 Trouble for a prison warden 12 Salts at sea 14 Loaves-and-fishes event, e.g. 17 Position at the Masters

18 Find a job for

22 Got smart

23 Hurls, as invective

24 Welles of “The Third Man”

25 Spandex trademark

27 Sewn border

28 Quarterbac­k Roethlisbe­rger

29 Form a coalition

30 Substance for a fiddler

31 Pats down, as tobacco

33 Quite likely

34 Pit stop supply

36 Cleopatra’s undoing

37 Common URL suffix

38 Jazz aficionado­s of yore

43 Hans Brinker’s footwear

44 Metallic character in Oz

45 Maker of earthenwar­e

46 Title for Roger Moore

48 Gives the thumbs-up to

49 Major port of Yemen

50 Give a fresh look to 51 Primatolog­ists’ subjects 52 Source of ruin

53 Force at the Earth’s surface, informally

54 Caramel-andchocola­te candy brand

55 Moundsmen’s stats

56 Hard to grab hold of

58 Longoria of “Desperate Housewives”

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© Andrews McMeel 11/15

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