UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 ___ Bay Buccaneers 6 Musical group 10 Worn-down pencil 14 Animal that doesn’t direct a herd, despite its name

15 Fencing implement 16 Broadway award 17 Adjust to fit

18 *Three twos and two

threes, or better 20 Peruvian capital

22 Baby big cat 23 *Spectacular meteor 27 Counterculture icon

Timothy

28 Expert

29 On the lam

32 Once known as 33 Rhythm

35 Landscaping bush

37 The Obamas, for one ... or what fits between the two parts of each starred clue’s answer?

42 ___ New Guinea

43 Like many basketball

centers

46 Core workout targets 49 Meaty bar snacks

53 ___ Grande 54 Bloodsucker 56 *American and Alaska 58 Dwayne Johnson’s

nickname 61 Like a nil-nil score 62 *Have a meal at noon,

perhaps

64 Gobbled up

68 St. crossers

69 What a model strikes 70 Snapshot

71 Ernie’s pal

72 Stew recipe instruction 73 Depth detection

device

DOWN

1 Wanders around 2-Down? 2 Hartsfield-jackson

airport’s code 3 Encountered

4 “Nope” director

Jordan

5 Exuberant cry in

Ensenada

6 Happen to

7 Father of eight on “The

Simpsons”

8 1994 film that garnered Jodie

Foster an Oscar nomination

9 Place to get pastrami 10 One may be precious 11 Bird with a big bill 12 Lacking confidence 13 “See ya!”

19 Go into hiding

21 Judo surface 23 Tide rival

24 Word before “cream” or

“water”

25 Harvest

26 Milan opera house

30 Pi follower

31 The “me” of “Despicable

Me”

34 Exceed

36 Sandwich with red and

green ingredients

38 Pop art icon Andy 39 ___Pen

40 Seasoning mix applied to

meat before smoking 41 Take home

44 Whopper

45 ___ Alamos 46 Task-switching keyboard shortcut introduced in Windows 2.0

47 Act properly

48 Person on a quest

50 One or the other

51 Cycle starter?

52 Gets some shut-eye 55 Big name in

toothpaste

57 Boise State’s state 59 Tarot suit

60 Tangle

63 CBS forensic

franchise

65 Great deal

66 2-Down posting 67 Negative conjunction