UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Pitch tents

7 Prefix for “rival”

11 Pastoral setting

14 Cartoonist Aragones who contributed to Mad magazine

15 Pulled apart

16 Paintings, prints and such

17 They’re rounded up on a ranch

18 Activist/poet Angelou

19 Word before “humbug”

20 Caper

22 *Outlet

24 *Outlook

27 Marvel Comics group

28 Follow directions

29 The third degree, say?

30 Animal at the end of an alphabet book

31 Hitched

32 “Yes, yes,” in Yucatan

34 Bar mitzvah dances

35 *Outlay

37 Prim and respectable

39 California representative Aguilar

40 Coral reef’s place

43 Stretch of work

44 Electric ___ (possible source of an 860-volt shock)

45 Chums

46 “Not guilty,” e.g.

47 *Output

50 Survive longer than, and a hint to reading the starred clues

52 Just might

53 Big name in TVs and records

54 Originate (from)

56 Environs

59 Rapid blinking, for one

60 Bingo relative

61 Shoe brand with a striped logo

62 Talk endlessly

63 Tennis match parts

64 Indicate

DOWN

1 Winding curve

2 Word after “butterfly” or “mosquito”

3 Formed

4 Part of the CIA?

5 Merriment

6 Put forth, as a theory

7 20s’ dispenser

8 Laughed heartily

9 “Two and a Half Men” star Jon

10 Recover at a tent revival

11 1987 film about Ritchie Valens

12 They get the lead out

13 Goddess worshipped on the Acropolis

21 Thicket

23 Put forth, as effort

24 Blow away

25 Bart Simpson’s grandpa

26 Greyhound’s smaller relative

30 Area

32 Buttonhole, e.g.

33 Birth control option, briefly

34 Big success

35 Humdrum

36 Piece of the past

37 Only country named after a real-life woman

38 Neckwear holder

40 Took a wedding vow

41 High rollers in Chicago?

42 Volcanic emission

43 Casual yet stylish

44 Scope

45 Earn, slangily

47 Lauder of cosmetics

48 Wanderer

49 “The Hitchhiker’s ___ to the Galaxy”

51 Calls upon

55 Wall calendar pages: Abbr.

57 ___ away (corrode)

58 Take advantage of