UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Ripped

5 Cherry and crimson, e.g.

9 Doesn’t eat

14 “Hi, sailor!”

15 Beige relative 16 Brightened

17 Exhibit 1: Program lines for a Babylonian legal app. Written in cuneiform text.

20 Most common crime in the U.S.

21 Treble woodwind

22 “Shoot!”

23 Pause fillers

25 Goo made from coal, say

27 Exhibit 2: Cumbersome mobile devices used by Moses to record important messages.

35 Everyone

36 “Spider-Man” director Sam

37 Outpouring

39 Muscular snake

40 Facial feature in some pirate names

42 Vehicle with sliding doors

43 Rolls made with rice

46 2000s TV series set in SoCal

48 Assist

49 Exhibit 3: Early doomsurfing shown in video recreations. An epic flood was trending.

52 ___-for-profit 53 Natural light source

54 Birdcall

57 Revise for publication

61 Cats’ cries

65 Exhibit 4: Monument to a structure that tried to connect to the cloud.

68 Prepared to shoot a goal

69 Frozen yogurt holder

70 Start over on

71 They enforce mob rule

72 Had in mind?

73 Early puzzle video game

DOWN

1 Social sensitivity

2 “I know! Pick me!”

3 Got carried away by?

4 Beautiful sight

5 Official with a whistle

6 Repeat after me?

7 Dull in color

8 Wrestling in a dohyo

9 Winter ailment

10 Plane delivery

11 Pulsar or nova, e.g.

12 Bass brass

13 Roasting skewer

18 Significant ___ (partner)

19 New York baseball team

24 Stick a fork in

26 @ signs

27 Indent keys

28 Audibly

29 Affected by ennui

30 Cinco + dos

31 Nebraska tribe or city

32 Dismisses from a job

33 Like an armada

34 Digital sales

38 They can be split or spliced

41 Medics

44 Perform a surfing feat involving the feet

45 Words of affirmation?

47 Piece of bread?

50 Simmer in anger

51 Tough type of pushup

54 Doe’s mate

55 Mississippi tributary

56 Sub captain in Verne novels

58 Ship surface

59 “Five” or “flat” follower

60 Verbal revealer of attitude

62 Be a good dog

63 Gets hitched

64 Coin opening

66 Vision experts’ degs.

67 Scarcely any