Universal Crossword

ACROSS

1 P.F. ___’s

6 Metaphorical hurdle to jump through 10 Unleashes (on) 14 Edmonton NHL player 15 ___ child (person without siblings) 16 Have down pat 17 Suds that may be sudsy 19 Cambodia’s continent 20 Cutesy name for the pads on feline paws 21 Eighth of a circle 23 Excited about something 25 Cooped (up) 26 Liability’s counterpart 29 “Come again?” 32 Moans and groans? 34 “Aye aye, ___!” 35 Meh 36 Word before “joke” or “bod”

37 ET of ’80s TV 39 Kin, for short 41 Operation Phone Home org. 42 Design detail, briefly 44 Blunder 46 ___ chocolate cake 48 Utter delight? 51 En ___ (all together) 52 Places 53 Bidirectional 55 Move from the bar to a table, say 57 Performance for RuPaul 61 Pretentiously cultured 62 “Been there!” 64 Powerful wind 65 Meat spread 66 Caramelfilled chocolates 67 Cotton swabs have many

68 Tiff

69 Like sugar

DOWN

1 Expense

2 “The Farmer in the Dell” syllables 3 ___ vera 4 Beginners 5 Hot drink with a colorful name 6 Schmooze 7 Babies’ bodysuits 8 World Cup cheer 9 Fire-related prefix 10 They may do triple axels 11 Tricks of the trade 12 Fifty-fifty flips 13 Buzzer beater?

18 Rodent first sent to space in 1961 22 Tax pro 24 “Weekend, here I come!” 26 “Therefore ...” 27 Shows heavily represented at the Daytime Emmys 28 Source of extra income 30 Stroller in Stratford 31 Nary a soul 33 Vehicle for sand or snow 38 Greek life group 40 Portmanteau for some parents of child stars

43 Feline makeup that Taylor Swift draws “sharp enough to kill a man” 45 Numbers to be crunched 47 Avoids the spotlight 49 Secretive org. 50 Yellow jacket relative 54 “It’s ___!” (“Oh, it’s on!”) 55 Pasta sauce brand 56 Pointers 58 Robust 59 Central Plains people 60 Egyptto-Libya direction 63 Mushroom’s top