UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD |“AND SOMETIMES Y”, BY TIMOTHY E. PARKER
ACROSS
1 “Heat of the Moment” band 5 Metric foot 9 Closet-lining wood 14 Vereen and Affleck 15 Eight of old Rome 16 Music venue for big names 17 Kinda like a cabbage bud? 20 Correspond 21 Emphasizes 22 Providers of highs and lows 25 Checkers option 26 Man of fables 28 Life partner? 32 “Lamb of God” 37 Horse opera 38 Kinda explosive? 41 Untidy 42 Counts, earls, etc. 43 Blacken on a range 44 Certain opera voice 46 47 Black Like a variety 30-to-300 increase 53 One way to box 58 Thorny plant (var.) 59 Kinda tall and statuesque? 62 Commit to memory 63 Place in a tennis lesson? 64 Words with “timer” 65 Wens 66 Ancient Briton 67 Stepped heavily
DOWN
1 Some religious fathers 2 Woolen fabric 3 Accustom
4 Braying equines 5 “___ had a bad day” 6 Be sick 7 Shoot an air ball 8 Coffeehouse kin 9 Was concerned 10 Cupid kin 11 ___ ex machina 12 Poker pay-in 13 Sunshine units 18 Place to sink or swim 19 Make ready 23 Dry ravine 24 Noticed 27 Things along the highway 28 Pack on board 29 Auction offering 30 Type of mortals 31 ___ Mawr 32 Weapons in silos, briefly 33 Great merriment 34 Its trips are the longest 35 Cold War country 36 Muddy place on a farm 37 Nocturnal flier 39 Denver newspaper 40 Woodwind option 44 One-time VHS rival 45 Tiny and then some 46 ___ Hopkins Hospital 48 “This Is Us” network 49 Frigid formation 50 Crude ship? 51 Slow musical tempo 52 Wood nymph 53 Barber’s dusting 54 Comply 55 Pitchers’ stats 56 Fruity pastry 57 “What ___ ya got?” 60 Needing doctoring 61 Keep after taxes