UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
That’s an Order! by Paul Coulter, edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Place mat’s place 6 Backless seat
11 Item once common in a glove compartment 14 Geometry calculations
15 Michelle’s predecessor in the White House
16 Yoko whose son is
Sean Lennon
17 Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel and Seth?
19 Blasting letters
20 London gallery
21 What can be added to impress?
22 Top dogs
24 “The Persistence of Memory” painter 26 Zzzzzzz
27 PC key under Z
30 Venus?
34 Use for a rendezvous
36 Court romantically
37 Sky’s color, in France 38 Cause of ruin
39 Barbecue site
40 Long, long times
41 Fails to be
42 A, in Austria
43 Web discussion site 45 PH.D.?
48 Most frequent letters in “Sean Lennon”
49 Agra attire
50 Thousand ___, Calif. 52 Care for a calico
54 Tampa Bay NFL player, briefly
55 Stumble
59 Indigo or violet
60 D?
63 Glass on the radio? 64 Student getting one-on-one help
65 Kind of box or saw 66 Popular cooking spray
67 Frets
68 “Bark,” to a dog trainer
DOWN
1 Only chief justice who was a former president
2 Diva’s delivery
3 Ernie’s roommate
4 Did some light surgery?
5 “C’___ la vie!”
6 Like Serbs and Croats 7 Domesticate
8 French for “yes” 9 Magic place?
10 Stayed out of sight 11 Main vein
12 The “I” of “The King and I”
13 Flower holders
18 ___ mignon
23 Dug into
25 Words between “cool” and “cucumber”
26 Little brat
27 Scope
28 Chow line?
29 Group known for raising rackets?
31 Needing to repay
32 First leader of the Soviet Union
33 Prepares to look for fingerprints
35 Bright fish in aquariums
39 Bakery buys that rhyme with “buys”
42 Cut from a column, maybe
43 Arm span
44 “A rat!”
46 Piles formed by blizzards
47 Mail carriers’ circuits 51 Bacon unit
52 Vase defect
53 Mystical glow
54 Beer or tea
56 Put on a scale 57 Brainstorming result
58 Benefit such as paid time off
61 Arapaho foe
62 Baseball VIPS