Universal Crossword
ACROSS
1 Clumsy person
4 “No booze provided”
initials
8 Civil rights icon Parks
12 “Let your ___ flag fly!”
15 “State Fair” state
16 “Um, I’m right here”
17 They may be accompanied by “Pew pew pew!”
19 Hatcher of “Desperate
Housewives”
20 Back-to-back move in
square dancing
21 ___ and dined
22 Longtime forensic show
24 They may be accompanied by “Go, Texas!”
27 Maze runner
29 Restroom at a pub
30 Up to now
31 Part of UAE
32 “The Hobbit” hobbit
34 Plasma screens, e.g., and a hint to 17-, 24-, 49- and 58-Across
41 “You win”
42 “By yesterday!”
43 Barbecue residue
46 Gunk
47 Lover’s question upon
returning
49 They may be
accompanied by “Great
job!”
53 Trojans’ or Gamecocks’
sch.
54 2020 sci-fi movie with
a palindromic title
55 “I’m not listening!”
57 Scary time for Caesar
58 They may be accompanied by “Make love, not war!”
62 “___ we forget ...”
63 Break into, like a
computer
64 T-bone, for one
65 Insects in a 1998 Pixar
film
66 Bugs
67 Espionage expert
DOWN
1 On-___ switch
2 Singer Grande, to fans
3 Purse with a double F
logo
4 Elaborate event
5 “Anything broken?”
6 Possess
7 College degs. for history
majors
8 Tweet’s number of
replies vs. likes, e.g.
9 “The Gift of the Magi”
author
10 Untroubled
11 In a crowd of
13 Previously
14 “TIK TOK” content
creator?
18 Laugh and a half
21 Good, long cry?
22 Dressed (in)
23 Garment worn in
Mumbai
25 Girl in “The Last of Us”
video games
26 Crowds around
28 Softball stat
32 Open up like a
buttercup
33 Bouncers check them
35 Close-fitting
36 Felipe, Matty or Jesus
of MLB fame
37 ___ Vegas Aces
38 Relieves
39 Thanksgiving
vegetables
40 On ___ (without a
contract)
43 No. 1 Hun
44 Norway neighbor
45 “I swear!”
47 Moscow ___ (cocktail)
48 “No bid”
50 Word after “smell” or
“taste”
51 Part of BIPOC
52 Bags of potatoes
56 Drunk, informally
58 Upsilon follower
59 Organ with a canal
60 Cat’s rest
61 Cloud site
Today’s highlight:
the body of Ronald Reagan arrived in Washington to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda before the 40th president’s funeral.
On this date:
during World War II, Norway decided to surrender to the Nazis, effective at midnight.
the Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be the new chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren.
heavy rains triggered record flooding in the Black Hills of South Dakota; the resulting disaster left at least 238 people dead and $164 million in damage.
leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
the Rogers Commission released its report on the Challenger disaster, criticizing NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
the sciencefiction film “Jurassic Park,” directed by Steven Spielberg, had its world premiere in Washington, D.C.
hundreds of mourners packed a Houston church for the funeral of George Floyd, a Black man whose death during a Minneapolis arrest inspired a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice.