USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Blindauer

SOUND SYSTEM ACROSS

1 Knock down a peg

6 Pastry decoration

11 Bedwear, briefly

14 Religious ascetics

15 Flying elephant of moviedom

16 Groove in a dirt road 17 Episode of intense anxiety

19 College URL ender

20 Instructio­n sheet segment 21 Locker room powder

22 Insurance fraud crime, perhaps

24 Battle of the ___ (Ardennes conflict)

26 All MLB players

27 Where “besuboru” is played

30 First day on the job

34 Stands by for

36 ___ Lanka

37 “Smoking” bit of evidence

38 Deal with an APR

40 APR part

43 Mork’s home planet

44 Kilmer who played Doc Holliday

46 Opposite of later

47 Like one whose peepers gleam maliciousl­y 51 Fidgety

52 “___ where prohibited”

53 Oscar or Emmy, for example

55 Censorship sound

57 Spoken aloud

58 Oxford, for one (Abbr.)

62 High-tailed it

63 Place to play Skee-Ball

66 Big Australian bird

67 No longer on one’s plate

68 Playful weasel relative

69 Really small

70 Become worn down

71 English class assignment

DOWN

1 Concert blasters, briefly 2 Canoe, for one 3 Hathaway of “Les Miserables”

4 Vanish before a trial, say 5 Upper-left PC key 6 Luggage labels, for example 7 Portions of pork 8 Apple debut of

1998

9 “SNL” network 10 Small single-seated racing vehicle 11 Star’s publicity seeker 12 Karate’s cousin 13 Zap with a Taser 18 Georgia’s capital (Abbr.)

23 “The Twilight Zone” host Serling

25 Golden Rule’s second word

26 Uses a crowbar on

27 ___ Marley (Scrooge’s partner)

28 Well-informed

29 Famed Manhattan thoroughfa­re

31 Dadaist Jean

32 Songs

33 Contest submission

35 Kept for a rainy day

39 Dissenting vote

41 Sound from a lion’s den

42 Leads, as an orchestra

45 Picked up, as knowledge

48 Buck’s mate

49 “Hooray!”

50 ___ “The Rock” Johnson

54 Montgomery’s state (Abbr.) 55 Make, as a pot of coffee

56 Unable to walk

57 Not fooled by 59 Washington baseball team, for short

60 “What’s the big ___?”

61 The V of VIP

64 Hearing organ

65 Fish eggs used in sushi Monday’s Answer

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