UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Barn birds 5 Enjoy a nice soak 10 Enjoy a nice wash-up 14 Ham’s dad 15 Collection plate passer 16 Big name in desktops 17 Not at 100 percent 20 Firmament 21 Tabloid twosome 22 Ships’ docking spots 23 Dentist’s request 24 “I couldn’t agree more” 26 Like house plants 29 Sacred Egyptian beetles 32 Clean up an article 33 Fiber-___ cable 34 “This tape will self-destruct ...” org. 36 Be aboveboard? 40 Costa del ___ 41 More secure 42 Baseless, as a threat 43 Clouds in the cosmos 45 Diamond-shaped pattern 47 Like some thermometers 48 Slangy agreement 49 Silk fabric with a wavy pattern 52 “___ to Be Wild” 53 Where a gymnast lands 56 Assigned prices that are too low 60 Greek portico 61 15-percenter 62 Melt ingredient, often 63 Going rate? 64 Climber’s toehold 65 Prepare, as a steak DOWN 1 Encumbrance 2 Policy maven 3 The Beatles’“___ Madonna” 4 Yonder woman 5 Hit with the head 6 Drained of color 7 Those over there 8 Cut down with an ax 9 Before 10 Jennifer Lopez, for one 11 Exercise byproduct, often 12 Jerk the wheel 13 Is incorrect 18 Readyto harvest 19 Immediate impression 23 “Beetle Bailey” pooch 24 Repertory member 25 Hurt severely 26 Cribbage items 27 Keats’s “___ a Grecian Urn” 28 Boxers’ dreams 29 Shopaholic’s indulgence 30 Fussbudget 31 What the nose knows 33 Abattoir waste 35 Like some refills 37 One with a lot of interest in his work? 38 Samoan currency 39 Close at hand 44 Like the Northern Lights 45 Fill full of bubbles 46 Long, angry discourse 48 New to the world 49 Has to 50 In the know 51 Golden calf, for example 52 Ran, as watercolors 53 Pout 54 Kendrick of Hollywood 55 Autocrat until 1917 57 Kilmer of Hollywood 58 What comes before beauty 59 “___ show time!”