USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Gail Grabowski

FOUR FREE

ACROSS

1 Croquet areas

6 Diamond defect

10 Inflates, as a resume

14 Sun Valley locale 15 Caramel-filled candy brand

16 Like Darth Vader

17 Aster or pansy

19 Paella base

20 Rescue squad VIP

21 Altoids containers

22 Attacked guerrillas­tyle

24 Monopoly

payments

25 Cosmetic surgery,

for short

26 Mysterious to most

29 Fen-phen was one

33 Wetlands flora

34 Go through the

roof

35 “An Essay on Man”

poet Alexander

36 Berry in smoothies

37 Colorado-based

brewery

38 “So that’s it!”

39 Long-necked pear

40 Runs smoothly, as

an engine

41 Pulls back, with “in”

42 Keds or PF Flyers

44 Split off

45 Not as pricey

46 Name in

pineapples

47 Cruise quarters

50 Subtle aroma, e.g.

51 Jeans go-with,

often

54 Like the Mojave’s

climate

55 Window washer’s

restraint

58 Retired racehorse,

perhaps

59 It doesn’t fly on

Shabbat

60 Marquesses’ inferiors

61 “And there you have it!” 62 Sea dogs 63 Symbol of

freshness DOWN 1 “___ of Pi” (Yann Martel novel) 2 Economist Smith 3 Creator of Mickey and Minnie

4 Art Ross Trophy

org.

5 Begins to melt

6 Shell corporatio­n,

often

7 Weather map extremes 8 Public house order 9 Fretful sorts 10 Novel that evokes earlier times 11 Voracious, like a reader 12 Gaming table “bones”

13 Transport for

Nanook

18 Bit of dialogue

23 Well-put 24 Driverless cars,

years ago

25 Problemati­c

witnesses

26 Many Syrians

27 Info-gathering

mission

28 “Knock it off!”

29 Condemns to

Hades

30 Rockwell’s riveter

31 Turn topsy-turvy

32 Migratory

honkers

34 Goes bad, in a

way

37 Board plus 32 pieces 41 Passed along, as news

43 “World Without End” author Follett

44 Do a recycling

task

46 Dramatic

showdowns

47 Support for a

break

48 “Aida” highlight 49 Audubon subject

50 Not exactly within reach

51 Polo of “The Fosters”

52 Right-angle bends

53 Artsy-craftsy

website

56 ___ florentine (with

spinach)

57 Sound at a

shearing

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© Andrews McMeel 4/30

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