USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

BOTTOMHEAV­Y

ACROSS

1 Capped camera part

5 Rock climber’s challenge 10 Singing group with a palindromi­c name 14 Innovator’s spark 15 Hawaii’s “Pineapple Island” 16 Admissions office honcho 17 On tenterhook­s 18 Postal measure 19 Prepare, as butter for popcorn

20 Pull-down list

21 ___ of habeas corpus

22 Perchers on power lines

23 Rifle-toting Oakley

25 Uniformed univ. group

26 Money-grubber’s trait

29 Dorothy Gale’s state 31 Halo seen during a solar eclipse

32 Steed’s restraint

33 Prefix with natal or classical

35 Charitable offerings

36 King’s tenure

38 Cherry throwaway

39 College wall climber

40 Wild guess

41 Cellist with 18 Grammys

43 Spotted wildcat

45 Lou Grant’s portrayer

46 Sultanate bordering Yemen

47 By no means a numskull

48 Manage, barely

50 Long and fibrous, like a vine

51 Periods of the past

55 Showroom display

56 Fired up again

57 Ankle-length skirt

58 NHL or NFL players

59 Ramses Hilton’s city

60 Treated with a cold pack

61 Ben’s three, on “Bonanza” 62 John of Plymouth Colony

63 Sign over, as land

DOWN

1 Neeson of “Taken”

2 Outdo, barely

3 Gas in marquees

4 Giant cacti

5 Box full of red noses and huge shoes?

6 Hugh of “House”

7 Lint-collecting navel

8 Almanac tidbit

9 Shakespear­e’s “Phooey!” 10 Fesses up to 11 Swiss district with many brewpubs? 12 Like Steve Harvey or Mr. Clean 13 Hobby farm denizens

22 Beethoven House city

24 Anais whose diary spans over 60 years

25 Soggy Ohio city?

26 Berry touted as a superfood 27 Swedish 55-Across since 1927

28 Material for olive drabs?

29 Vessel at a toga party

30 Terse note from the boss

32 BBQ slab item

34 Epps who costarred with

6-Down

37 Nosh on

38 Affecting the entire body

40 Knock dead at a comedy club

42 Galley implement

44 Create a raised logo on, say

45 Galactic ___ (“Star Wars” force)

47 Three-dimensiona­l

48 Unexplaine­d omissions

49 Peseta’s replacemen­t

50 Flesh-and-blood

52 5K or marathon

53 Summarily terminated

54 One of two in a conflict

56 45 RPM record pioneer

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