UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Coke or Pepsi

5 Black out, in a way

11 Lines on a map: Abbr.

14 Competitor of Thrifty

15 Verdi opera in which Iago is a baritone

16 Ump’s call

17 “Watch your mouth!”

19 ___-Wan Kenobi

20 Lure

21 What to do when you don’t know the words to a song

22 Superfan

23 Achy

24 Wins the lottery, say

26 Doing nothing

28 Pet name that sounds like a body of water

29 Song of praise

32 Peke squeak

34 “Real Housewives” icon Giudice

37 Abu Dhabi’s land, for short

38 Ideal guy, or a hint to the end of 17-, 24-,

48- or 61-Across 40 Upholstery problem

41 “See ya!”

43 Golfer’s prop

44 (Hey! Over here!)

45 Uncle, in Spanish

46 Run like heck

48 “You’re about as important as a white crayon” and others

53 Obscures, with “up”

56 Verifiable

57 ___ Paulo, Brazil

58 Faux family name in punk rock

60 Snitch

61 Human line?

63 Absorbed, as a cost

64 Siamese intoxicant

65 Poi source

66 Shortest answer from a Magic 8 Ball

67 Perturbs

68 Biblical garden

DOWN

1 One might say “Happy Birthday” in frosting

2 Hot spots

3 Deceive

4 Medicine cabinet staple

5 Mechanical repetition

6 List ender: Abbr.

7 India’s second-most populous city

8 Certain Native Alaskan

9 Mollusks in linguine alle vongole

10 Heavy weight

11 A&W and Barq’s

12 Home of the Burj Khalifa

13 Undercover operation

18 Like chilled coffee

22 Antares or Polaris

24 Successor

25 “Suuure ...”

27 U-shaped stringed instrument

29 Busy airport

30 “Whoopee!”

31 Rom-com staples

33 Set (against)

34 What you used to be?

35 Bro’s sibling, maybe 36 Well-chosen

38 Initial advice for busybodies?

39 Understands

42 Triathlon ride

44 Raise in rank

47 Way out there

48 Go off course

49 Very ticked off

50 Red-and-blue graphic on election night

51 Talks wildly

52 Everybody’s opposite

54 Become spoiled

55 Sleeper’s sound

58 Freestyles over a beat, perhaps

59 Berkshire boarding school

61 Critical hospital dept.

62 Small songbird