UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

You Name It by Geoff Brown, edited by David Steinberg

ACROSS

1 Taste, for one

6 Parents celebrated in June

11 Quirky

14 Broadcasting now

15 Big concert venue 16 Reporter’s first question?

17 Pony car since

1964

19 Hang back

20 Unpaid debts

21 Inhale and exhale 23 Angry

24 Neptune’s domain 26 West Point inits. 27 Simple bed

28 Sarcastic response to a

dad joke

32 Egg, in Ecuador

34 “Me, too”

35 “Insecure” actress 38 Harmony 42 Procrastinator’s favorite

word

44 ___ spray

(decongestant) 45 Celebrity and Carnival,

e.g.

50 Bawl

51 One may have just

desserts

52 Orca group 53 Ungentlemanly

guy 54 What zoologists

study

58 Popular food fish 61 Word before “stream” or

“Ski”

62 Unpopular low-level

boss, say

64 Have 20-Across 65 Check casher

66 NPR part

67 Webfeed letters 68 Shelled out

69 Elite group of

athletes

DOWN

1 Couch

2 Gigantic

3 Tells, as a tale

4 Wasn’t impartial 5 Bombeck who wrote over

4,000 columns 6 Mahomes, at times

7 It might be left

hanging

8 Diamond shape that

resembles a fruit

9 Green Gables girl

10 Wilts

11 Goggle-eyed and wise

12 “___ & Greg”

(1997-2002 sitcom) 13 Folded bookmark 18 Celestial bear

22 Iams competitor 25 Commercials

27 X, in fraternity

names

28 Jewish circle

dances

29 “___-hoo!”

30 Film Solo

31 Religious revival

responses

33 Anxiety drug brand 36 Chowed down

37 It can swim

backward

39 Wild adventure 40 Island region of

Italy

41 Crafty

43 Tear

45 Key with no sharps or

flats

46 Extends, as a

membership

47 Comes together 48 “Hold on”

49 Polish language? 53 Gemstone unit

55 Tablet downloads 56 Bound or vault

57 Eye sore 59 Constellation hidden in

“Jolly Rancher” 60 Elementary particle, and a two-part hint to the starts of 17-, 28-, 45and 62-Across

63 Diver’s top score