Universal Crossword
ACROSS
1 Lubricated
6 Peaceful
10 Size above sm.
13 Unburdened by
15 High or low cards
16 “When They See Us”
director Duvernay
17 “You must be this tall to ride the roller coaster,” e.g.?
19 Doll who has had 40+
occupations
20 Bits of progress
21 Seabird within “water
nymphs”
22 “Sweetie”
25 News inits.
26 Rene of “The Thomas
Crown Affair”
27 “Use the squat rack as
instructed,” e.g.?
31 Windy City trains
32 “All the Things You ___” (Ella Fitzgerald song)
33 Site for techies
34 Grooming businesses
36 Fire signal at a hospital
39 Godsend
40 Upper limb
41 Undefeated Laila
42 “No black-soled shoes
in the gym,” e.g.?
47 Tennis great Agassi
48 Potentially pulpy drinks,
briefly
49 “___ With an E” (Netflix
series)
50 Neat
51 In the direction of
54 “___ have to?”
55 “Keep your eyes on
your own exam,” e.g.?
59 End of a countdown
60 “Doggone it!”
61 Large concert venues
62 Publisher’s pile: Abbr.
63 Apartment payment
64 Joy Reid’s channel
DOWN
1 Not performing well
2 Lyricist Gershwin
3 Luau necklace
4 More spooky
5 This entry’s direction
6 Certain hors d’oeuvre
7 Low-ph
8 What brings things into
focus
9 Food additive letters
10 Throws money in the
air
11 Extremely
12 Big name in yogurt
14 Distant 18 Shakes awake
21 One-on-one student
22 (Stay in your lane!)
23 Truck rod
24 Closest of friends
26 First hip-hop group to
achieve a gold record
28 Author Truman
29 Modern Persian
30 Squirrel’s food
35 Game whose name is
an apology
36 Type of relationship in
statistics
37 Spacex founder Musk
38 Have a fancy meal
42 Realm for Garfield
43 Chopping them may
make you cry
44 Columnist Peggy
45 Renowned defensive
end for the Texans
46 Briefly experiences, as
success
51 What a pit crew may
change
52 Single-stranded
molecule
53 Brown house, perhaps?
55 1933-45 prez
56 B&B relative
57 Uber alternative
58 PC bailout key
Today’s highlight:
On Nov. 23, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
On this date:
In 1887, actor Boris Karloff was born William Henry Pratt in London.
In 1914, the seven-month U.S. military occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, ended.
In 1936, Life, the photojournalism magazine created by Henry R. Luce, was first published.
In 1971, the People’s Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.
In 1980, some 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy.
In 1996, a commandeered Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the water off the Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board, including all three hijackers.
In 2000, in a setback for Al Gore, the Florida Supreme Court refused to order Miami-dade County officials to resume hand-counting its election-day ballots.
In 2001, the U.N. war crimes tribunal said it would try former Yugoslav
President Slobodan
Milosevic for genocide in Bosnia, linking him for the first time in court to the murders of thousands of non-serbs and the displacement of a quarter million people. (Milosevic died in March 2006 while his trial was in progress.)