USA TODAY CROSSWORD
EDITED Jared Goudsmit BY Emma Lawson PERIOD PIECES
ACROSS
1 Drain problem 5 “Seems ___”
(“I think it’s valid”) 10 Still competing
14 Epic tale
15 Wear away
16 Extinct bird
17 Prince song with a colorful name 19 Cookie with fondant filling
20 “Am not!” rebuttal 21 Ctrl-___-Del 22 Rib-eye, e.g. 23 “Rodeo” singer Lil ___ X
24 Container for cookies or sewing supplies 26 Emotionally removed
28 Do a little of this and a little of that 32 “Ideally . . .”
35 Part of the ear or brain
36 Neither’s partner 37 Prepare rooibos
38 Mutual ___
39 Doing nothing
40 Comic DeLaria
41 Rickshaw, e.g.
43 Polish city where Chopin’s heart is buried
45 Number of euros to the dollar, e.g. 48 Like Ugadi and Holi 49 Kitchenware brand 50 ___ your wage
(do only the work you’re paid to do) 53 Jack who could eat no fat
55 Docs’ degrees
57 “You can’t be serious!”
59 Writer such as Mahmoud Darwish 60 Download that offers forecasts 62 Name hidden in “thesaurus”
63 “Come in!”
64 Mandy Gull-Masty’s heritage
65 Marries
66 “Don’t ___ with me!”
67 Puts two and two together
DOWN
1 Channel that
covers Congress
2 Olympic gymnast
Zeng
3 Shrek and Fiona
4 Spaces between
things
5 Actor Pace
6 Off the mark
7 Word after “long
term” or “field”
8 Annual Alaskan
sled dog race
9 Number of decades in a century 10 “Samesies!”
11 “All sales are final” 12 “Can I bounce an ___ off you?” 13 Nabbed
18 Flower in yeonkkot-cha
22 Achy
25 Addams Family cousin
27 Room with Bunsen burners
28 Church seat 29 Top-notch
30 The Crescent City, for short 31 Sketched 32 Up to the task 33 Dino such as Barney 34 Book that might be enjoyed on a vacation 38 Quarrel 39 Wrath 41 “You ___ win
’em all” 42 “Your point
being?” 43 Crayon stuff 44 Repent 46 Short break in
activity
47 List of team
members
50 Emmy or
Grammy 51 Like Batgirl, costume-wise
52 Uses a keyboard 53 Gush forcefully
54 Asana
56 Statistical info
58 Ocean predator 60 “Red Eye” director Craven
61 Regimen that might involve estrogen (Abbr.)