UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Microwaves
5 Taylor Swift’s “___
Song”
8 Putting into service 13 “Carmen” composer 14 Grabbed a bite
15 Contest with roping 16 Escape the clutches of 17 Hero’s undoing (In this
answer, note letters 6-3) 19 Pieces of food for a dog,
say
21 Hyphenated juice
brand
22 Seabird with a forked
tail
23 “Ho Hey” band
(... letters 6-3)
26 Email nuisance
27 Really enthusiastic 31 Brewpub acronym 34 Tibetan Buddhist title 37 Bird following a couple of
ducks?
38 Eurasian invasions of the 13th and 14th centuries (... letters 7-4)
42 VW Beetles, e.g. 43 Annual presidential
speech, briefly
44 Distress signal 45 Paprika’s dad, on “Blue’s
Clues”
47 Middle ___ (Oman’s
region) 50 Sarcastic words of
sympathy (... letters 4-1) 56 Places to relax 59 Fellows
60 Fast-food kitchen
fixtures
61 Chills, or a theme hint 64 Connects deeply 65 Online sales
66 X, in a sorority name 67 Word of admission? 68 Beefy?
69 Like chili, usually 70 Salty drop
DOWN
1 Nothin’
2 Sky blue
3 Travels by foot, in a
way
4 Rise to the challenge 5 Klutz
6 Beehive State resident 7 Fix, as loose laces 8 Underlined address,
often
9 Tap dance without the
tap
10 Waiting for a task
11 Not far
12 Vera Wang garment 13 Optimal
18 Taiwanese laptop
maker
20 Like potatoes that aren’t
worth fretting over 24 Apple desktops 25 Spaghetti sauce brand 28 Diana of the Supremes 29 On the subject of 30 Big name in little
trucks
31 Islamic spiritual
leader
32 Empty bottles, say 33 Six-legged insects 35 (I’ve got milk!)
36 Paid for a poker hand 39 Leather glove
material
40 Setting for the 2021 Norwegian film “The Worst Person in the World”
41 Hearty drink 46 Feature of the Great
Pyramid
48 Icy dessert
49 “You have to taste
this!”
51 “My job ... is just ___”
(Ken)
52 Large dried pepper 53 Meddlesome person 54 Menu selection 55 Letters from the Cold
War
56 Distort
57 Crux
58 Trisyllabic berry 62 Sneaky
63 Set that you build