UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Everything ___ Changed” (Taylor Swift song)

4 University in Houston

8 “Goodness gracious!”

12 Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn

14 Org. that approves hard hats

15 Investigate

16 Seizure of power

18 Chip away at

19 Nairobi’s land

20 Asian food store

22 ___ instinct

23 Sia hit with the lyric “Baby, I don’t need dollar bills to have fun tonight”

26 Put a fresh coat on

29 Covered in grease

30 Too formal

31 Female deer

33 Runs away

36 Tonic’s partner

37 Common stir-fry green

40 French fashion monogram

41 Rim shot drum

43 Band’s booking

44 “Relative” of Bigfoot

45 So bad that it’s good, in Gen Z slang

47 Future syrup, perhaps

49 Sentry’s question

53 “You’ve got mail” co.

54 Cognizant (of )

55 “Fingers crossed!”

59 Word before “saw” or “smoker”

61 Natural sounds that the starts of 16-, 23-, 37- and 49-Across resemble

63 Great praise

64 Words per minute, for one

65 “Read ’em and ___!”

66 Country found inside Romania?

67 Commotions

68 ___ Jose

DOWN

1 Break into, digitally

2 Soothing succulent

3 Created, as yarn from wool

4 Fish eggs

5 Request for consent

6 Winner, casually

7 Go to, as a restaurant

8 Screw up

9 Craft items that roll easily?

10 Pop star Paula

11 Specifics, slangily

13 Surveillance device, for short

15 Become stone

17 Indian yogurt

21 Greek letter used to represent density

24 Prefix with “skeleton”

25 Not well

26 Dungeons & Dragons

and Undertale: Abbr.

27 Ireland, in old poems

28 Drink that might come with a paper umbrella

32 Certain heart reading, for short

34 “Como ___ usted?”

35 What someone might do on a banana peel

37 Laments

38 Until now

39 Shrek, for one

42 Cloth scrap

44 Bull-riding cheer

46 Church bench

48 Carle who wrote “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” 49 Off-the-wall

50 Unexciting

51 Big name in hummus

52 B-D-F or C-E-G, in music

56 Bullfight cheers

57 “Guilty” or “not guilty”

58 “Monday Night Football” channel

60 OH- or NH4+

62 ___ Moines