UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

|“BEACHY KEEN”,

ACROSS

1 African grassland 5 Two of a kind 9 Musical exercise 14 Nautical direction 15 Dainty wear 16 Journalist Shriver 17 Internships for college students, in the U.K.

20 Take on, as a quality 21 One next in line 22 Completely stuff 23 Movie personnel 25 Indian dress

27 Hun leader

30 Round rural building

31 Removed or shortened

34 Dull, color-wise

35 “It’s all ___ you” 37 Scottish baron 39 Ready money

42 Coin substitute

43 “All ___ being equal ...”

44 “That oughta ___!” 45 Photo chances, briefly 46 Like all facts 48 Invisible currency 50 Crack the books 51 Home for Adam and Eve 52 Numerical code 55 Joint-related problem

57 Modern battery type

61 The pounds in 256,000 ounces 64 Didn’t get to-go 65 Tug violently 66 Weigh-station concern

67 Change in Mexico 68 Some units of conductance 69 Moves hems

DOWN

1 Flower container 2 Vigor 3 Do banker’s work 4 Possible to figure out

5 551, in Roman numerals

6 Boat? No, fancier

7 It’s a pain

8 Things made every day 9 Australian meat source

10 Some lower bones

11 Bear in the sky 12 Return to slender?

13 Simple dexterity

18 Raised mark on the skin

19 Like dental exams 24 “Dino” stick-on 26 Campus military grp.

27 Increase

28 Boy Scouts group 29 Summit meeting events

30 Like old bread 31 Body of laws

32 Free from restraint

33 Irritable

36 Author’s other name 38 Pleasure-seekers 40 Part of a pot on the table 41 Praiseworthy act 47 Show great anger 49 Appetizing list 50 8:1, e.g.

51 Culture prefix

52 “... and make it quick!” 53 Long-practiced ceremony

54 Couple that’s here and there? 56 Six-sided state 58 TLC part

59 From square one

60 Silent-spring causers 62 Consonants in “ninny”

63 Stamps of approval