UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
Term Limits by John Ewbank, edited by Anna Gundlach
ACROSS
1 Seeing stars
6 Nativity figure
11 Text that might get “ur
welcome” in response 14 Old enough
15 Valley called
“the Garden of
France”
16 “___ is me!”
17 JD
19 Charged particle
20 “... ish”
21 Previous partners
22 He knows when you’ve been bad or good
24 Saigon locale,
briefly
26 Taste, e.g. 27 “Notorious” Supreme
Court inits., once
30 WE
35 Gambling opponent
that’s tough to beat 37 Greek fertility god 38 Aspiring atty.’s exam 39 Enthusiastic about 40 Natural hairdos 41 Europe’s highest
active volcano 42 Western mil. alliance 43 Golf bag items
44 “___ you the lucky one!” 45 ON
48 Old-fashioned liquor 49 Spend time in front
of the mirror 50 Venomous viper 52 Striped savannah animal 53 Spot for some
needlework?
56 Sludge
60 Incoming flight stat 61 Showing partiality ... or a hint to how the clues for 17-, 30- and 45-Across were constructed
64 “Shop ___ you drop” 65 Epic featuring the
fall of Troy
66 Finish off
67 Falcons, on a scoreboard 68 Lightly hammered? 69 Like a stereotypical
teen’s room
DOWN
1 Place to learn judo 2 From a distance 3 Veers in the other
direction
4 Goad
5 Rapper Kool Moe ___ 6 Soccer star Morgan 7 Connecting point 8 DJ’S bookings 9 Before, poetically 10 The ___ of two evils 11 Princess Leia, to Luke
Skywalker 12 Informal party with folk
music
13 TV’S warrior princess 18 Singer Lovato 23 Someone opening a can
of worms? 25 Wonderment
26 Give lip to
27 Creature that may have given rise to the unicorn myth
28 “Enjoy the meal!” 29 Bowling alley blunder 31 Postpone
32 Slipped up
33 Largest deer species 34 Alaska or Hawaii 36 Oklahoma athlete 40 Heaps and heaps
44 Beast of burden 46 “Scram!”
47 Gave a buzz
51 Coolness under
pressure
52 Greek Z
53 Cut, as class
54 Some South Korean cars 55 ___ 500
57 Poems of praise
58 God often depicted
throwing lightning bolts 59 Best Female Athlete, e.g. 62 “Allah is the Greatest. I’m just the greatest boxer” speaker
63 Total