UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Toward the
setting sun 5 Pasta served at
Sicilian weddings 9 Clever
14 You’ll get a hand
for it
15 Since
16 South American beast with a snout
17 *Monastic updo? (note how an “R” sound moves in each starred answer)
19 ___ and kicking 20 One may nest on a cliff
21 *Whiskey drinker’s laundry problem?
23 LP speed
24 MDs
27 Had in common 28 Datum such as
AQI
30 List units
33 Rage
34 Be against
36 Lieu
38 *Arizona and Nevada, compared to Louisiana and Florida? 40 They work with
feet and meters 42 Composer Gus
tav or Alma 43 Choose
44 Bit of mental
warfare, briefly 45 Reduce to a pulp 49 Look (for) 52 Summer hrs. in
most states 54 Question of identity 55 *Reaction to a courtroom punch? 58 Spanish for
“now”
60 Literary crowd member?
61 *Cook who puts grains in the oven?
64 Took a loss 65 Shapeless shape 66 Obscene 67 Complete
makeovers 68 Undesirable
roommate 69 Finishes
DOWN
1 Sandwich
cookie parts 2 Mesmerized 3 Mark of
disgrace
4 Bluish color on a
certain duck 5 Electricity sound 6 Prefix with “thermal” or “metric” 7 Guided
excursion 8 Doubtful
9 Store covertly 10 Country in the Mediterranean 11 Places to manage workers? 12 Mediterranean resort area
13 Got popular
online 18 Common color
for salsa
22 Road curve
shape
25 Unlike a green
banana 26 Weather alert subjects
29 Civil wrong
31 Piece of writing that sounds like its third and fourth letters 32 System 35 Letters after
omicrons 36 Jeanne d’Arc,
e.g.: Abbr.
37 Bit of jargon 38 Full of specifics 39 European peaks 40 After a peace
treaty is signed 41 Perform surgery 44 Vietnamese
soup
46 Already roused 47 Sagacious 48 Miser’s
collections 50 The “R” of NPR 51 Devonshire cream features 53 Bill for Bloody Marys 56 Planets,
poetically 57 Stuff with stuff 59 In good shape 62 Sound like a
pigeon
63 Go back,
as the tide