UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

All Tied Up

ACROSS

1 Brief message

5 Value

10 Chain of movie theaters

13 Car rental company

14 Greetings from Hawaii

16 Military conflict

17 When two fairly matched giraffes raced, they were ...

19 Whichever

20 Like a walkie-talkie that’s close enough

21 Winter excursion

23 Surgeons’ spots, for short

24 When two fairly matched zombies raced, it was a ...

25 Fishing implement

27 Farmland measurement

30 Airport security org.

31 “I caught you!”

32 Gave a call

33 Well-organized

37 When two fairly matched rock climbers raced, victory was ...

42 Slugger Sammy

43 The world’s second most traded currency

44 Carly ___ Jepsen

45 Important ID

48 Adjust, as an article

49 Make up stories

50 When two fairly matched gamblers raced, it was a ...

54 Frigid

56 Basic metabolic panel, for one

57 Charter option for a sports team

61 LAX landing guess

62 When two fairly matched cameramen raced, it came down to a ...

64 Bog

65 Floats in the air

66 Canadian First Nations group

67 Chiding word

68 Stuck on, as an idea

69 Chances

DOWN

1 Fingernail treatment, informally

2 Fairly matched

3 Extremely small pictures, say

4 Schindler with a list

5 Designer Vera

6 Quaint, quaintly

7 Harry’s pal

8 This and that

9 Try to chop through

10 In the know

11 Obsession

12 Burial chamber

15 Experiences poor traction

18 Comedian Aziz

22 Macbeth’s title

24 Angle units

25 This puzzle has

15 of them

26 Akron’s state

28 Soup holder

29 Messenger molecule

34 One gets the worm

35 Berry in some purple smoothies

36 You, before you were born?

38 Lacks

39 It’s not clear!

40 ___ Lanka

41 Corkscrew pasta

46 Curry of the Warriors

47 Flaky ticket holder

50 Chin indent

51 Author Joyce Carol ___

52 Goldman Sachs, e.g., slangily

53 Appliance with a cooktop

55 ___ de Mayo

57 Comedian Sahl

58 In that case

59 Like items in a thrift store

60 “___ in her element”

63 Nickname related to Theo