UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Gate securers

6 Assist a shoplifter 10 Long time periods 14 Home with no A/C 15 The Apple apple, e.g.

16 Fruit “meat” 17 Undesirable soft food

18 What rats do

19 With an icy coat 20 Simple construction supplies

23 David Allan of music

24 Like seven parts of Rome

27 Change text again

31 Fuel source

33 “Nim’s Island” author Wendy 34 Geographic reference

35 Do like a bell

36 “Don’t go out that door!” 37 They drove off a cliff

40 Possess

41 Pool prods

42 Jungle growths 43 U-turn from WSW 44 “Sciences” go-with 45 Examine anew 46 Spades player’s error

48 It can get you there 49 Spreadsheet revelation

56 Missile housing

58 Strong smell 59 Unreliable scoundrel

60 Not quiet

61 Eclectic assortment

62 What yes-men do 63 Name in three English rivers 64 Snitch

65 Gardeners’ nemeses

DOWN

1 Low? No, u-turn 2 Yamuna River city 3 Run-down area 4 Sonnet or ode 5 Grammatical error

6 Aquarium problem 7 Beethoven’s birthplace

8 “Good gravy!” kin 9 Public assembly meeting

10 Spring month

11 Bad cure for headaches? 12 Common tree 13 Double agent, e.g. 21 Turn to mush

22 Get feverish

25 Clears one’s writing?

26 Least rainy 27 Word of preference 28 Gas used as fuel 29 Exam for Brit preteen students 30 Valley

31 Traffic shifters

32 Auto pioneer Ransom

35 Ex-lax?

36 Courtroom attire 38 325,851 gallons 39 Commit a checking error

44 Many a year ___ 45 Was in the paper 47 Wear away

48 “Brady Bunch” member

50 Run while stopped 51 Work hard 52 Exclusive opera seating

53 Beastly male creature

54 Brought to court 55 Calls, in poker 56 ___-Pitch softball 57 Pay-you-later kin