Universal Crossword

ACROSS 1

Weekend comedy show, familiarly

4 Singer Ronstadt

9 Carpet style popular in the ’70s

13 Uncle, in

Mexico

14 Jeered from

the bleachers

15 Princess’s

crown

16 Kitchen pest

17 Large type of a small crustacean (In this answer, unscramble letters 2-8)

19 Greek salad

cheese

21 Lyft competitor

22 Reuben

bread

23 Major headline material (... letters 3-10)

28 Raggedy

Ann, e.g.

29 New Age

icon Chopra

32 Little rascal

35 “Voila!”

37 St. Louis skyline feature

38 Unwelcome one (... letters 5-11)

43 Lawyer

Clooney

44 Soothing

succulent

45 Yang’s opposite

46 Some nonprofit supporters 49 Sicilian

volcano

51 Being authentic (... letters 6-13)

57 “Exit full

screen” key

59 Smiley ___

60 Colt’s mother

61 Takes a different form, or a hint to this puzzle’s scrambled 4-, 5-, 9- and 3-sided figures

66 Chai or

oolong

67 ___ bear (Arctic predator)

68 See eye to

eye

69 ___ and outs

70 Scream

71 Yours, in

times of yore

72 Show of affection for mom?

DOWN 1 Employees

2 Joe Montana, from ‘79-’92

3 State-run game of chance

4 JFK’S successor

5 Payment

promise

6 Oscar recognition, informally

7 Fix, as code

8 Photoshop

producer

9 Madam’s

counterpart

10 Musical set in 1960s Baltimore 11 West Point’s military branch

12 Stare with an

open mouth

15 One-fifth of

15

18 Transmit

20 Bait ___

switch

24 Yellow Brick

Road dog

25 Scheme

26 Alan of “Marriage Story”

27 Tucker (out)

30 Beginning of

a play

31 Genghis ___

32 Apple tablet

33 Office note

34 Practical joke that victims pick up?

36 Actress

Gasteyer

39 ___ gin fizz

40 Name hidden in “whole grain”

41 Formal denial 42 Man with

manners

47 Direct (to)

48 Health

resorts

50 Pitcher’s

prized limb

52 Defunct Apple messaging app

53 Whinny

54 Wipe out, in

slang

55 Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, e.g.

56 Last but not

___

57 Annual

sports award

58 Heel, but not

an ankle

62 Friend

63 Part of TGIF:

Abbr.

64 Jack’s value

in blackjack

65 “What did I

tell you?”