UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

”DAY ONE”

ACROSS

1 Ceremonial elegance 5 Sign away 9 Mirrors’ partner 14 White House office 15 Angle between branch and trunk 16 By-and-by 17 Legendary singer Horne 18 Source of misery 19 Minor actor 20 Noted New Year’s orchestra 23 Not scheduled for duty 24 Word with “weapon” or “injection” 25 Very small 26 Fuse again 28 Things to uphold 31 Jim at the bar 32 Disney head, once 35 New Year’s event in Times Square 40 Be stealthy 41 Trouble’s partner 43 Computer key 46 Kitchen item 48 One for the off-road 49 Library visitor 53 B-movie lead pumper 54 New Year’s party occurrence 58 Cancel 59 Sublease 60 Stylishly elegant 62 Deed 63 Freedom from hardship 64 Basketball necessity 65 Bawl out 66 Something shady? 67 European volcano

DOWN

1 D.C. insider 2 Stuff to the gills 3 Combat ship 4 Work’s antithesis 5 Sent a wire 6 Word-for-word 7 Entertainer Shore 8 “___ and Her Men” (Ingrid Bergman film) 9 Snow conveyance 10 Singer Priest 11 Capital of Canada 12 Corny bit 13 Cleans the slate 21 “___ in the Family” 22 Dress type 23 Crystal ball, for example 27 Behave theatrically 29 Socially emerging young woman, briefly 30 Muse of lyric poetry 32 Immature newt 33 Japanese statesman 34 Seller of sea shells 36 “The ___ and the Pendulum” 37 “Carmen” or “Norma” 38 It has a big payoff 39 Something that binds 42 Word before up, out or down 43 Tickets, slangily 44 Pertaining to a certain culture 45 Primitive camp structure 46 Small sofa 47 Paid athlete, in short 50 Heron 51 Nigh, in poesy 52 Like a blockhead 55 Think (over) 56 Argued 57 Feel pain 61 Financial auditor’s designation