USA TODAY CROSSWORD
NONSENSE OUTRO
ACROSS
1 Less Than Jake genre
4 The Burn Book in “Mean Girls,” for one
8 Opposite of boom 12 Dip out suddenly
13 Chip away at
14 “___ the Woods”
15 Tracy Chapman’s vocal range
16 Reasoning used to solve sudoku puzzles
17 Leo’s symbol
18 Tiered bed part that’s lower to the ground
20 Yearn
21 Whichever
22 Selfie stance
23 Overdue library book penalties
24 “When the first ___ you see may not be a ___” (“Konstantine” lyric)
26 Instrument used for tuning
28 Wander around 30 Was sure of 2
31 “Killing Eve” network 3
34 Bar fixture that 4 simulates riding a bucking animal 5
37 Fluffy scarf
38 Printer product 6
39 Spanish for “water” 7 40 Turn bad 8
41 Texting segue
42 “Bad at Love” singer 9 44 Make certain 10
46 Pirate flag emblem 11 48 Insulting the other 12 team, say 13
53 Doesn’t wear out 56 Anger 19
57 Main artery 23
58 Throbs 25
59 “I told you!”
60 ___ flush
61 Social equal 62 “Jumanji” sketch 26 show 27 63 Eggy spread
DOWN
1 Places to get blowouts
2 Rewards for cats, casually
3 All the time
4 In all likelihood, casually
5 Go ___ (ignore orders)
6 Thor’s dad
7 Light 49-Down
8 “LUNCH” singer Eilish
9 Labor group
10 Peach pit
11 Ice-grabbing tool
12 ___ ghanoush
13 Muppet with a pet goldfish
19 TV mogul Winfrey
23 Poultry
25 Rep. who said
“We open doors so others can walk through them”
26 In the past
27 Big squeeze 29 Company that makes Barbie 30 Relatives
31 App glitches
32 “My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been ___ / All’s well that ends well to end up with you”
33 Pottery material
34 Animal sounds in “Over the Moon”
35 As we speak
36 Site with a piano in the game Clue
37 “Long hair (No ___) / It’s my type (That’s right)” (“Red Wine Supernova” lyric)
41 Trumpets’ section
43 Place to say “I do”
45 Say 46 Fire engine feature
47 Protest, in a way
49 Lock lips
50 Sansa Stark’s sister
51 “Please don’t go!”
52 Angelic ring
53 One length of a pool
54 High card
55 “___ Used to Be Mine” (“Waitress” song) Wednesday’s Answer