UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Compete in a sprint
5 Pic-sharing app
10 Permanent record, in a way
14 It becomes another name when “L” is moved to its front
15 Apple device?
16 Peacock or bull
17 I’m stuck!
19 Lose it
20 Voice above alto
21 Cut (off )
23 Equal: Prefix
24 “Dr. No” actress
Andress
26 Big bags
28 Eclipses, in the ancient world
31 I’m not a kid anymore!
33 College party barrel
34 T-mobile, e.g.
35 “Enough!”
39 “Good lord, not again”
42 Salsa percussion instruments
46 Preface to a texted take
47 I’m a big deal!
49 Olympics boat
51 “Lather” follow-up
52 Oppose
54 “Revolutionary Love” singer Difranco
55 Pronoun related to dis
57 Works with what’s at hand
61 Messy pile
63 I’m on a roll!
65 “___ to my surprise ...”
66 “Howdy!”
67 Used Whatsapp, briefly
68 Lhasa ___
69 Sherlock’s sister
70 Tears roughly
DOWN
1 Accelerates, with “up”
2 Potatoes, in Indian cuisine
3 Farmers’ network, briefly
4 Evasive play in football
5 App symbols
6 “For sure!”
7 Show promoter’s dream letters
8 Revealing biography
9 Singer Guthrie
10 Texting tech
11 Request to make an entrance
12 State whose motto is “North to the Future”
13 Share on X
18 Rowboat propellers
22 “Just kidding!”
25 Golf ball’s position
27 Eager and then some
28 Signs off on
29 Convened
30 Self-motivated people?
32 Zodiac feline
36 Campaign-funding orgs.
37 Vexed
38 Musical Mahal
40 Punk music offshoot
41 Saldana of “Star Trek”
43 Hiker’s water holder
44 Obama health law’s initials
45 Bygone in-flight catalog that’s now online
47 The creator, in Hinduism
48 “Stand in a row!”
49 Word after “pound” or “cup”
50 Sailor’s affirmative
53 Girl Scout cookie, or an island country
56 Arthur in tennis history
58 Prefix with “final”
59 Like some holes and pockets
60 Casino statistics
62 Vietnamese soup
64 ___-mo