UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Nueve - uno

5 Loath (to)

11 Mani-pedi site

14 The old you?

15 World’s largest cosmetics company

16 Early internet giant

17 Visual depiction of a watchful feathered friend in an enclosure

19 Seasonal ailment

20 Stirring utensil

21 Lose control on a wet road

22 Captain’s spot

23 Disgusted interjection

25 Be unfaithful to, romantically

27 Visual depiction of a gobbling feathered friend in an enclosure

32 Poetic tribute

33 Criticize harshly

34 Spherical object

35 City also nicknamed The Big Easy

37 Inputted data, e.g.

40 Feudal laborer

43 Golfer nicknamed The Big Easy

45 Make, as wages

47 High toss

48 Visual depiction of a talkative feathered friend in an enclosure

53 Frozen, shaved treat

54 Pushup target, briefly

55 Mean giant

56 Reputation, in slang

59 Neighbor of China and India

63 Negation word

64 1996 film in which Robin Williams plays a drag club owner, and a hint to this puzzle’s theme

66 Shoe’s tip

67 Naval engineer

68 Property size unit

69 Strange

70 Makes sense

71 Apex

DOWN

1 Elevator manufacturer

2 Poker pot piece

3 Santa’s chuckle

4 Emphatic assent, in Saint-etienne

5 Boxing legend Laila

6 Promises

7 Explorer dubbed “the Red”

8 Second punt, say

9 Exchanged greetings

10 2012 Super Bowl MVP Manning

11 Protective strap worn around the waist

12 Hoi ___

13 Graduate school graduates

18 Beef variety

22 Crime scene strands

24 Dagger handle

26 Fair hiring inits.

27 Particle such as Cl

28 Answer at the altar

29 Instantaneously traveled

30 Bit of sunlight

31 Bank of China Tower architect

36 Wonderland adventurer

38 Corn serving

39 Leak

41 Louis XIV ou Louis XVI

42 Agent Dana Scully’s org. in “The X-files”

44 ___ Paulo

46 Ceaselessly

48 Sees right through

49 On favorable terms (with)

50 Made very slow progress

51 Scan again

52 Pole topper

57 Recedes

58 French for “god”

60 Walk back and forth

61 Taj Mahal’s city

62 Onionlike vegetable

64 Precheck org.

65 Gym unit