USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Gail Grabowski

THAT’S THE TICKET

ACROSS

1 Hefty volume

5 Wear a long face

9 Cut corners

14 Lyft alternativ­e

15 “Makes sense to me”

16 Typical 64-Across for Hitchcock

17 The brainy Simpson 18 Dropped into the collection plate

19 Without peer

20 TV episode with a cliffhange­r ending, perhaps

23 Place a value on

24 “How ya doin’?”

25 Bodycam wearer

28 Urban renewal targets 31 Synth-heavy music genre

33 Create seams

36 Policy allowing unrestrict­ed travel

38 Winter Olympics leap

40 Chinese leader who met with Nixon 41 “Survey ___ . . .” (game show phrase)

42 Blink of an eye

47 Jeans go-with, often

48 Chinese dish served family-style

49 Places for pants patches

51 Stubborn equine

52 Muesli morsel

54 Watched a friend’s dog, say

58 Place to jot down notes 61 Seventeen-syllable verse

64 Auditioner’s goal

65 Margin in a close race

66 Footnote abbr.

67 No-win situation?

68 Chaotic scenes

69 Migratory birds

70 Strong cravings © Andrews McMeel 71 Features of the Swiss skyline

DOWN

1 Oklahoma oil city

2 Awards similar to Tonys 3 Badlands formations

4 Removes all traces of

5 Joins a club, say

6 Separate mil. branch since 1947

7 First name in denim

8 Banshees’ laments

9 Ticket seller at a sellout 10 Veggie in some chips 11 Texter’s “If you ask me . . .”

12 Rooks, but not ravens

13 “The Black Cat” author 21 Capital on a fjord 22 Lot purchase 25 Flout the rules 26 How corned beef is often served 27 Rustler-pursuing group

29 Viral video, e.g.

30 Handful of peanuts, perhaps 32 Fixed-term investment­s, for short

33 Olympic figure skater Cohen

34 Shows with exhibit booths 35 Consequenc­es of paintball strikes

37 Timely benefit

39 Sassy talk

43 “So adorable!”

44 Rigel or Deneb

45 Huey, Dewey and Louie, to Donald

46 Word before fryer or freezer

50 Prose: paragraph:: poetry:___

53 Late for school 55 Thread holder 56 Fabulist who wrote of an also-ran hare 57 Long lock 58 Competes in a super-G

59 Ran like heck

60 Tartan-sporting family 61 Harley, slangily 62 Tarzan’s adoptive mother, e.g.

63 Zamboni’s milieu

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