UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Ice units

6 Easy W

10 Stand the test of time

14 Like Guinness

15 Vibe

16 Tavern selections

17 Fiddle relative

18 1976 Rick Dees hit

20 Novelist McEwan

21 P, on a sorority house

23 “The Kiss” artist

Gustav

24 2008 Zac Brown

Band hit

28 Litter you probably

shouldn’t pick up?

29 Allow

30 “Mamma Mia!” group

34 Sydney ___ House

36 Flower that caused a 17th-century economic crash

38 Pronoun made just

for you and me?

39 With 41-Across, 1976

Steve Miller Band hit

41 See 39-Across

43 Finder’s take

44 Pleasantly tart

46 One of the ABC islands

47 Lip

49 “It’s all ___ much”

50 Doesn’t sit idly by

51 1984 Prince hit

56 Puff from an iron

58 Midday recharge

59 One may be told with

fingers crossed

60 Field notes? ... or four recordings in this puzzle

63 Is biased

65 Soft cheese 66 Loafer, e.g.

67 Come up

68 Omen

69 Schedule opening

70 When repeated,

snitches

DOWN

1 Type of pride or duty

2 Dickens’ Heep

3 They see the world through a futuristic lens

4 Adult ed. course

5 Lone swimmer in open water, facetiously

6 Hazardous household

gas

7 “Yes, monsieur!”

8 Butterworth’s title

9 Close up shop for the

day

10 Fancy-schmancy

11 Grad

12 Group formed from a

schism

13 Sound of disapproval

19 Stadium cheer

22 “___ All That” (gender-swapped remake)

25 Ringlet of hair

26 Annual shot target

27 Pass along, as news

31 Quack medicine

marketing staple

32 Lava lamp insert

33 Word after “Bay” or

“gray”

34 One-___

(singular events)

35 Urgent appeal

36 Carpentry joint part

37 Diplomatic approach

to setting boundaries?

40 Model who rose to fame with a Calvin Klein shoot

42 Painting and

poetry, e.g.

45 Thoth or Thor

48 Ikea’s home

country

50 Director DuVernay

52 Possesses

53 Starting point

54 Step after “lather”

55 Affirmatives

56 iPhone assistant

57 Precalc course

60 Projected pellets

61 Jets’ and Sharks’

org.

62 Sticky stuff

64 Flop ___ (low period

for an artist)