UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 One who is
done for
6 Really messy room 9 Water balloon sound
Smell of holiday cookies, for instance
15 ___ moment 16 Wear down 17 Common drying agent in packaging (see letters 6 to 8 in this answer)
19 Admit toknowing 20 Combined, as
funds
21 Rings out
23 End of an
ultimatum 24 Kimono sash 26 Get ready to eat a kid’s meal?
Civil rights activist Ruby 31 Waste little by
little (6 to 8) 33 Ukrainian port 34 “Your highness” 35 Fellowassociate 38 Like owls’ feet 41 Word within
“Miami-Dade” 42 Cowardly 44 Toronto is on its
shore (4 to 6) 47 Stir in
50 What a go-getter is often full of Eavesdropping org.
City in northwestern Pennsylvania 53 Less constrained 55 Certain unpopular collector California/ Nevada resort area, informally 60 Millenniums, for instance ... or a hint to the hiddenwords in 17-, 31- and 44-Across 62 Sayswith
conviction 63 Unduly 64 Tubular pasta 65 Beginnings of
ideas
66 20 dispenser 67 More cunning 14 30 51 52 57
DOWN
Yankee’s Baltimore rival 3 Win-win 4 “J’accuse...!”
writer Zola
5 Drive very fast 6 What old
mattresses do 7 Maximally unpleasant situation 8 University where
the Clintons met 9 Vendor
10 Spring training time
Realtor’s barebones offering Brouhaha
Highest point value for a Scrabble tile Placed on a pedestal
22 Dined
25 Split in two 27 Romulus or Remus
Arctic or snowshoe animal 29 Gave the once-over 31 Medicationapproving org. Turkic people (STRATAanagram) 33 Catalog insert 35 NASCAR legend 2 11
12 13 18 28 32
Yarborough 36 Saudi Arabia
neighbor 37 Karaoke need,
informally
39 Fly a plane 40 Sign of summer? 43 Went wild 45 Fiona in “Shrek,”
for one 46 December 31,
briefly
47 Big name in
Italian fashion 48 Senator Feinstein
49 More tightly packed
Kick out of school
54 Jones or James
of jazz 56 Snakesby the Nile 57 Playground game with a lot of running 58 Usually broad
road: Abbr. 59 That sow
61 Eve, for Cain
and Abel 52