UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Rey, for one
5 “Quantum Leap” network
8 Herzegovina’s partner
14 “Preach!”
15 Water, in French
16 They put you in your place
17 Payment, forward and backward?
19 Makes chicken noises
20 Shows to a chair
21 Shoes, slangily
22 Like diet soda
25 Container, forward and backward?
27 Four quarters
28 Less cordial
31 “if u ask me”
32 Critical care M.D.
34 Apply to
36 Unagi, at a sushi bar
37 Circle, forward and backward?
40 Cooking meas.
43 “I wish I could ___ that” (“Ick”)
44 Abounds
48 Here, to Henri
49 Hauls around
51 Carpet layer’s calculation
52 Wintry, forward and backward?
55 Hairsplitter
57 Front wheel alignment
58 Japanese verse
60 Be there
61 Capture, forward and backward?
65 Skewer
66 Uno e due
67 Pad kee mao cuisine
68 Cash in
69 Afterthought to an afterthought, for short
70 Feed bag contents
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1 Improvise, musically
2 Mood music?
3 Cubs’ home
4 Pending payment, perhaps
5 Like the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay
6 Something used to attract prey
7 Unfairly moves ahead in line
8 Cowboy
9 “Hold Me” Grammy winner K.T.
10 Open, as an oyster
11 Obligatory office attire for men, once
12 Exasperating
13 Balaam’s biblical beast
18 Favorable vote
22 Chemical used in making pretzels
23 “___ the fields we go”
24 Large amount of cash
25 One spelling for a Great Plains home
26 PAC beneficiary
29 Computer blinker
30 Speck in the ocean
33 “Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon M.
35 “As if!”
38 Together
39 Precede
40 Behavioral quirk
41 Short dog, for short
42 Steered the plane
45 Pitcher stat
46 Chess pieces
47 Survived a game of musical chairs
50 Sudden increases
53 Name on combine harvesters
54 Pained reaction 56 Barely get, with “out”
58 Start of many addresses
59 Group that combats age discrimination
60 First 30-day mo.
62 “Bingo!”
63 Backstabber
64 Sonneteer’s contraction