UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Reaction to receiving that special gift

5 Rapids transports

10 Some families have two

14 Region

15 “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star Kemper

16 Astronaut Shepard

17 Person telling whoppers

18 Do penance in the early afternoon?

20 “E” on a compass

21 Features of the Rolling Stones logo

22 What you might do to meat and words

23 Decorate, as a Christmas tree

25 Covering placed over a tooth

26 Questioning royally?

31 Certain scammer

32 Joints that spin a Hula-Hoop

33 GI entertainers

36 Put-in-Bay’s Great Lake

37 Moisten

38 Winter blanket?

39 All ready

40 Feeling after leg day

42 Chinese dumpling

44 Vegetables atop Saturn cars?

46 Operatives

49 Play thing?

50 Partner of desist

51 Bridal wear

53 Q-tip, e.g.

57 Carried in the direction of Coach Lasso?

59 Like canned sardines

60 Add a sentence to, say

61 In any way

62 Liberate

63 Cozy rooms

64 Like a room littered with wrapping paper

65 Come clean, with “up”

DOWN

1 Wind whose warning signal is two red pennants

2 Operatic showpiece

3 Red and Black

4 Like a job that’s just mornings

5 Adjust again, as tires

6 Nissan sedan

7 Failure

8 Christmas cookie containers

9 “Get it?”

10 Word before “pool” or “profile”

11 Solo

12 Ballet is a form of it

13 Villain’s look

19 Prayer endings

24 Genetic messenger

25 A-lister, for short

26 Gets an A+ on

27 Peeved

28 Make a muffler, maybe

29 Radiance

30 Tool set

33 “Do ___ others ...”

34 In short order

35 Defeats regularly

37 Doctor of sci-fi

38 Removes with scissors

40 Chipped in?

41 Not trans

42 Sophisticated

43 Peace activist Yoko

44 Initial stages

45 Sales pitches

46 Played a part

47 Crystal-lined rock

48 Dine at home

51 Go to the polls

52 GPS predictions

54 What connects Christmas lights

55 Pub drinks

56 Some tournament advances

58 Scot’s hat