UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Take on

6 Outdoor concert equipment

9 Sends junk emails 14 Kit-Kat part 15 Museum contents 16 Ship’s lowest deck 17 1997 Roberto Benigni film

20 Seattle horse-racing legend?

21 Architect’s blueprints

22 Mexican dwelling 23 Spanish “black”

25 Like many spending limits

27 Capital of Lesotho 29 Little map in the corner

31 “It ___” (reply to “Who’s there?”) 32 Ekberg or Loos 34 Silent musical direction

38 Bond film (with “The”) 41 Continually

42 Poet Charles 43 “One Day

___ Time”

44 TV’s Struthers 46 Machinist’s holding pin

48 Our Lady of ___ (shrine) 51 Measuring tool 52 Killer of Poseidon’s son

53 Some fast sharks 56 Double Dutch necessity

59 Gunther book/TV film

62 Comforter

63 Lab rodent

64 Where Bucs play 65 Winter transports 66 Co-___ (some apartments) 67 Indian state

DOWN

1 Punching tools 2 Lower house of the Irish parliament 3 Like some humor 4 Baseball’s Reese 5 “Three” prefix 6 Picasso’s first 7 Wall-to-wall calculation

8 Laurel or Lee 9 Inebriate

10 Thing read by shoppers

11 Bravo preceders 12 Computer accessory 13 Impact sound 18 Released, as from prison

19 Mail bringers 24 Muscular Pontiac 26 Vitamin A

27 Venus de ___ 28 “U ___ umbrella” 29 Milan’s country 30 Negative votes 33 “American ___” 35 Online meeting places

36 Suffix with

“sermon”

37 Russian leader, once

39 Wouldn’t take no for an answer 40 Grasshopper kin 45 Wee sheep

47 Lands of Latin 48 Gradually loses color

49 “That’s ___ shame” 50 Make fun of

51 Plant features 54 “Space” beginner 55 Sack attachment? 57 Larval stage

58 Mild Dutch cheese

60 Day’s 24, briefly 61 School mtg. holder