UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Chilled

7 Many a one-pot meal 11 Be behind on payment 14 Stick (to)

15 Farmland unit

16 Name hidden in

“Thanks a lot”

17 Sleep poorly

19 Film FX used in

Marvel movies

20 Love god with a bow 21 “Two silkworms were in a race. It ended in a ___”

(punny joke)

22 Cafeteria platters 24 Proven to work 28 Appalled

30 They might put you to

sleep

31 Had big hopes

32 “Call of ___” (video game) 33 The Red Cross, e.g.,

briefly

36 Type of diagram with

overlapping circles 37 Demolition letters ... and a hint to 17-, 24-, 47- and 57-Across

38 The “F” on a gas gauge 39 “Call Me Maybe” singer

Carly ___ Jepsen 40 Cartoon explorer 42 Inserted music

accessory 44 Headwear for a

white tie event

46 Not moving

47 Every possible

obstacle

50 Kooky

51 Text usually answered

with a time

52 “A Sunday Kind of Love”

singer James

56 “Race” actor Goree 57 Various things 61 Camper vans, for short 62 Frantic way to run 63 “Certainly, madame!” 64 Teacher’s favorite 65 Phoenix ballers 66 Plague insect

DOWN

1 “Tar” actress

Blanchett

2 Axe target?

3 Very, very

4 <

5 Segment of history 6 Canine specialist? 7 Having no room for

dessert

8 Fort Worth sch. 9 Make an oopsie 10 Ran out of water 11 Some award season

slights

12 Pricey Japanese beef 13 Beethoven’s “Fur ___” 18 Eating plan

23 GPS course: Abbr. 25 Linda and Paul McCartney album with a sheep on the cover 26 Border on

27 “This is ___ a drill!” 28 What “pi times the radius squared” measures

29 Scientist studying

32-Down

31 Device for taping shows 32 Double-helix molecule 34 Overabundance 35 Outdated

37 Actress Kelly Marie ___ 38 Wildly uncontrolled 40 Pair of states named after an Indigenous people

41 “Want to grab

dinner ___ drink?” 42 Renewable fuel option 43 Melber of MSNBC 45 “Gross!”

46 Roti flour

47 Pesky type

48 Split evenly 49 Classroom surfaces 53 What you used to be? 54 Greek T’s

55 Working hard

58 “My DMs are open” 59 Charged particle 60 Couple