UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Job benefit
5 One might be
sleepaway
9 Comply with
13 Fruit served “na tigela”
14 City east of Santa
Barbara
15 Cut back
16 The Pyramid of Khufu is the largest one by volume
17 “I’m impressed!”
18 They turn litmus paper
red
19 *In a way that relates to vision? (note letters 3-5 in this clue’s answer)
22 Car dealer’s offering
25 Dedicated lines
26 “___ Another Day”
27 *Ambulance initials
(letters 3-7)
31 Descendants
33 Low digit?
34 “How adorable!”
35 Accutane target
36 *Place for food storage?
(letters 2-4)
40 Delhi wrap
42 Deli bread
43 “Who, me?”
46 Uses crayons
48 *Unkind? (letters 3-6)
51 Language used at
Gallaudet University
52 “About me” blurb
54 Take in new info
55 Make special effort, and a theme hint
60 Regimen for injured athletes
61 Boring
62 Bit in a fall pile
66 Mosque leaders
67 Largest city in Norway
68 Bad to the bone
69 Match makers?
70 App with restaurant reviews
71 Audition tape
DOWN
1 Congratulatory touch,
maybe
2 “The Name of the Rose”
writer Umberto
3 LA NFLER
4 Put the ___ on (stop)
5 What’s broken when it’s cracked?
6 A bit cracked
7 First word for some babies
8 It’s spotted in Westerns
9 “Jaws” boat
10 Use as a foundation
11 Football field boundary
12 Enthusiastic response to a proposal
15 Indy front-runner?
20 Podded plant
21 Driver’s license and
others
22 Permit
23 Funnyman Philips
24 Mimic
28 What old sofas do
29 Woolly female
30 Group generating a lot of
buzz?
32 Like some freezerburned items
36 Ace
37 Modern lodging options
38 Bill ___ the Science Guy
39 Vietnamese Lunar New
Year
40 “What’re you gonna do
about it!?”
41 Hot stuff, slangily
43 UFC sport
44 Crew need
45 Cozy lodging
46 Midcalf pants
47 Canine command
49 Street in a horror
franchise
50 Staggered
53 “Goody!”
56 Big name in pet food
57 Apart from that
58 Like tales that are hard to
believe
59 Chain that sells links?
63 Night before a holiday
64 Intention
65 Progressive pitcher