UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Large percussion
instruments 6 Corn holders 10 Heavenly instrument
14 “The Jungle Book” wolf 15 Academic specialty
16 “A Death in the Family” author 17 Hiatus for the “Baby, I’m-a Want You” band? 19 Heroic tale 20 Kentucky Derby seat
21 Receive some inside info 23 Throat part 26 Pollen season
sound
27 Set aside,
as money 30 Roadie for the “Sunshine of
Your Love” band? 32 Stop running 33 Stage signal 34 Spring destination? 35 Cold remedy
brand
38 Hot oil concern 42 Holm or Fleming 43 Good times 44 Sense of self 45 Recording session unit for the “Crazy on You” band?
49 Dog bane 51 Hawaiian greeting 52 Spiny sea creature 54 Recovering, as an
athlete 56 Confused
60 “Kiss Me Deadly” singer Ford 61 Serious movie about the “Bohemian Rhapsody” band?
64 City west of Tulsa 65 Russia’s ___
Mountains 66 Early Soviet leader 67 O.R. workers 68 Sugar bowl
marchers
69 Top Boy Scout
DOWN
1 Yaks
2 Gumbo
vegetable
3 Water or light, for a plant
4 “My pleasure” 5 Pathetic group 6 It and its usual fuel are within “Madagascar” 7 Source of iron 8 Foxhound’s smaller relative 9 “For heaven’s ___!” 10 Talks (with) 11 Christie of mysteries 12 Corn Belt or
Rust Belt 13 Green legume container
18 Big ___ (London attraction)
22 The Bucs stop
here
24 Gulf War missile 25 Wrath
27 Parts of
campaigns 28 Lucy of “Why
Women Kill” 29 Escorted 31 Egyptian snakes 33 Small change? 36 Candies whose wrappers feature smiling balloons 37 Palestinian political group 38 Work detail,
informally 39 Decimal base 40 You want one to
sink
41 Fancy sushi
topping 43 Country south of
Belarus: Abbr. 45 Called, like a cab 46 Weather phenomenon with a Spanish name 47 Kind of valve in
the heart 48 Reddish brown 49 Center 50 Mitchell on
MSNBC
53 Solo in space 55 Water color 57 Clark Kent gal pal
Lana
58 Name that’s a green fruit backward 59 Great ___ (big
dog)
62 Have pizza,
perhaps 63 Overhead trains,
for short Directions: Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating. The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners. Freebies: Fill in the single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.