UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Place to grab a

mocha 5 Yawn-inducing 9 Bugbite symptom 13 Stink badger’s stink 14 Skate on ice 15 Screenwriter Ephron 16 One helping others buy clothes (In this answer, note the first 2 letters + the last 4) 19 Deer on Michigan’s

state flag

20 Largest of China’s 56

ethnic groups 21 Contemplated 22 Death Valley’s prevailing weather (... first letter + the last 3 letters) 27 Spanish for “more” 28 Smile from ear to

ear

29 Corn core

32 Rod at a pig roast 34 Heating pad target 35 Breakfast-in-bed need 36 Soup and dessert, e.g. 38 “Now listen ...”

40 A cuttlefish has eight 41 Legend

43 Ice sculpture and others

44 Lively energy 45 Grain for gimbap 46 Extreme anger 47 Charming lady from Charleston, say

(... first 2 letters + the last 2)

53 Minor mistakes

55 ___ de parfum

56 Not feeling great 57 Lifetime tennis achievement (... first letter + the last 3 letters) 62 Beauty brand since

1886

63 Dodge

64 Lacking in excitement 65 Prohibits

66 Polo animal

67 Surgery souvenir

DOWN

1 Dealt with adversity 2 “Rolling in the Deep”

singer

3 Salad utensils

4 Triage spots: Abbr. 5 Mont ___ (highest of the

Alps)

6 Small, for short 7 Subway car displays 8 Half-hearted laugh 9 Constructive criticism,

say

10 Very hush-hush 11 Language on some

Canadian stop signs 12 Like a coconut’s shell 14 Pests in a cloud 17 “Doggone it!”

18 Muscat’s country 23 Qatari monarchs 24 Airport ~10 miles from

JFK

25 From Dublin or

Limerick

26 “I call dibs!”

30 Dragon boat steerers 31 “See ya”

32 Needing an ice bath 33 Lifts weights

34 “Ha, fooled ya!” 35 Number of NFL teams in

California

36 Hat with a visor

37 Send forth

39 Airpod, e.g. 42 Short-sleeved shirt 45 Sneaky trick

46 Plain silly

48 Starts the bidding

49 “All set?”

50 Color similar to

lavender

51 Alpaca’s bigger

cousin

52 Bovine glue mascot 53 Sign of healing 54 Volcanic output

58 Single side plank or

situp

59 Day-___ paint

60 Train for a marathon 61 City rds.