UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
Center Lane by Lisa Senzel and Jeff Chen, edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Nearly boil, as milk
6 Secretly includes on an email
10 Places for self-care
14 Video’s counterpart
15 Bring home the bacon
16 Apt rhyme for “bake”
17 *Gilpin of “Frasier”
19 Battery fluid
20 Common street name
21 “Let It Be” and “Let It Go”
22 Water filter brand
23 Wonderment
24 *Tennis’s Nadal, familiarly
26 Like the highest court
30 “Sir, this is an ___” (punch line for a fastfood meme)
31 How some sardines are packed
32 Avocado dip, for short
35 Moderate ... or where to find every starred clue’s answer?
42 Part of a molecule 43 Back tooth
44 Less wild
48 Winter wish for many kids
50 *Lily variety
53 Six-pack muscles
54 Air freshener targets
55 White on “Wheel of Fortune”
57 Mouse’s larger relative
60 Draped dress
61 *Wall-mounted light fixture
63 Sicilian smoke ring puffer
64 Forearm bone
65 Parton who said, “It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world”
66 Meeting, informally
67 Spreadsheet contents
68 Comedian’s seat
DOWN
1 Wise
2 Dumbbell exercise
3 “Ferrari” Driver?
4 Actress Tyler
5 Is successful
6 “Never ___ better”
7 Ship’s goods
8 Like new dollar bills
9 NBC sketch show, briefly
10 Sacred beetle of ancient Egypt
11 Appease
12 Japanese dogs
13 Car type
18 Ode, for one
22 “It’s freezing!”
23 Parched
25 Apiece
26 Kind of card in a phone
27 College, to an Aussie
28 “___ Save America” (downloadable political show)
29 Showbiz grand slam
33 Sci-fi saucer
34 Cash dispensers
36 “Downton Abbey” title
37 Paramore and Fall Out Boy
38 Spreadsheet lines
39 “Grow ___ along with me! The best is yet to be” (Robert Browning)
40 Small battery
41 Parched
44 So far
45 Squirrel’s stash
46 Pop star Carey
47 Chicago trains
49 Prefix with “second”
50 Comes in last
51 Hometown of St. Teresa
52 “That ___ so bad”
56 Final Four org.
57 Change addresses, to a Realtor
58 Singer Guthrie
59 Texter’s signoff
61 Total flop
62 Portable bed