UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Shoots the breeze

5 Whispered summons

9 Davis of “Thelma & Louise”

14 Peeve

15 Sound effect in a canyon

16 Demon’s counterpart

17 Persia, now

18 Kim Possible, e.g.

19 Letter after rho

20 Celine Dion hit heard in “Titanic” (In this clue’s answer, see letters 7-11)

23 Shrimp go-with, on a Southern menu

24 Intention

25 Mud bath venues

27 Go back to square one (Letters 2-7)

32 Race that’s winding down?

34 “Certainly,” by the Seine

35 Mixer at a bar, often

36 Part of UCLA

37 Opposite of 34-Across

39 Comedian’s joke

41 Hat, slangily

42 Jazzy Jones or James

44 Arena arbiter

46 Qualities

48 Arcade game with a mallet (Letters 4-7)

51 Renders speechless

52 Big bother

53 Group that protects a QB

55 Aircraft’s delay maneuvers, or what 20-, 27- and 48-Across are doing?

62 Cried “Foul,” perhaps

63 Google Play purchases

64 Ugg product

65 Igneous rock source

66 Oaxacan bread?

67 Tropical destination

68 Says grace, e.g.

69 Where Adam and Eve met

70 Sports squad

DOWN

1 Not looking good

2 Light and open

3 Ho-hum

4 Westernmost country in Africa

5 ___ dish (microbiologist’s item)

6 Big name in lawn care

7 Demonstrates for

8 Nobelist Morrison

9 Manipulated into questioning oneself

10 Head-scratchers

11 “Daylight savings waffle giveaway” brand

12 Fish in a 2003 Pixar film

13 Mathematician Turing

21 Insurance fraud crime, commonly

22 Wrangler’s rope

25 Sinful animal?

26 Rigatoni or rotini

28 Summer mo. without a federal holiday

29 “Cross my heart!”

30 Touches up, as text

31 Mouthfuls of Bubblicious

32 Large quantity

33 Like almost all BYU students

38 “The Matrix” protagonist

40 Researcher’s funding

43 Much-thanked group on Oscar night, with “The”

45 Bombed at the box office

47 Just slightly

49 Puma competitor

50 Tick away

54 “This means war”

55 Camel part

56 Ilhan in the House

57 Org. for good drivers?

58 Look surprised

59 Pink hue

60 Garden District’s city, informally

61 Flower stalk