USA TODAY CROSSWORD
BAD HARE DAY (FREESTYLE)
ACROSS
1 Light and crunchy
6 Fan sound
10 Pack down
14 Song part that might fade to silence 15 Something dug with a shovel 16 Fencing sword 17 Informal surveys 19 Professional baseball player Bergmann
20 Love ___ neighbor 21 Fluffy clumps vacuumed up from under couches
23 Red root veggie 24 Virtual inbox contents
25 Michigan college town 29 Ramadan-ending celebration
30 Baby kangaroo 31 Future attorney’s exam (Abbr.)
33 Like farmers market produce 37 “Without further ___ . . .”
38 Sworn statements 40 “___ Croft: Tomb Raider”
41 Pays to use
44 Throw forcefully
45 ___ hulu (feather necklace)
46 Pronoun that sounds like a unit of time
48 A person’s ideal vehicle
51 Total chaos
55 Not challenging 56 2021 short story collection by Brandon Taylor 59 Old-timey secondperson pronoun 60 “You’ve got the wrong person” 63 Prominent features of rabbits
64 Tribe of northeast Arizona
65 To no ___ (unsuccessfully) 66 Go bad
67 Green growth on a tree trunk
68 Font flourish
DOWN
1 Price
2 “Loving” star Negga
3 “Just doin’ my best” 4 Spanish version of Mrs.
5 Fresh snow
6 “Your guess is as good as mine” 7 News anchor
Lester
8 “How about that!” 9 Start up again 10 Popular young heartthrob
11 Month whose showers bring May flowers
12 Internet jokes 13 Green veggies in shepherd’s pie 18 Adobe building
22 Hit the ___ on the head
23 Truck-loading area 25 Open just a smidge
26 Lymph ___
27 Bright, like many running shirts 28 Assigned a value to 32 Exclamation after finding something 34 Math class with functions, for short 35 Domain 36 Villain’s hideout 39 Cooks, like xiao long bao 42 Rich cakes 43 “It’s been ___ a pleasure!”
47 Asset that helps a person clap along with a beat
49 Yoga poses 50 Alternative to “honey dearest”
51 Following
52 “Hello” in Mandarin
53 Urgent notification 54 Early web portal 57 Afternoon rests 58 Performer on a marquee 61 Nintendo avatar 62 ___ on the Shelf