UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Smoothing tool 5 Spanish appetizers
10 “This guy walks into ___ ...”
14 Cupid, to the Greeks 15 “A Passage to India” woman
16 Point of intersection 17 Fashion arbiter
19 Task list heading 20 Chipped in chips 21 Number cruncher? 23 Capitol Hill probe 26 Modern prefix with “-flake”
28 Selma’s state:
Abbr.
29 Frosts a cupcake 30 Like an aloha shirt 32 Letters in a return address?
34 Summer hrs. in D.C. 35 Rifle attachment 41 Virtuoso
42 Back in time 43 Baja resort, informally
44 Chinese leader? 46 In ___ fell swoop 48 Tempeh protein 49 Appreciate life at leisure, metaphorically 54 Dostoyevsky classic 55 Gulf of Bahrain nation 58 Do the Mannequin Challenge, say 59 Benchmark
62 Book after Joel 63 Was a prelude (to) 64 December 31 and others
65 Shelter with a flap 66 Peephole users 67 Former Speaker Gingrich
DOWN
1 Greek cheese 2 Persia, now
3 Aimless person 4 Cosmetician Lauder 5 Flat hat
6 Toothpaste box org. 7 Black tea
8 First Hebrew letter 9 Ranee’s wrap
10 Of a polar region 11 Layette shoe
12 Extras
13 Corporate shuffle, for short
18 “Giant” author Ferber
22 Busts
24 She met the Mad Hatter
25 Starchy luau tuber 26 Crunchy lunch acronym
27 Ova by the pond? 31 Least safe
33 Place to buy a mud mask 34 Budget, in brand names
36 Reprimand 37 Frankenstein’s assistant
38 Certain kitchen appliance
39 “Big Little Lies” airer
40 English ___ spaniel
44 Words after “Hi, honey”
45 “The Commuter” star Liam
47 Law firm figs.
49 VIP often toasted with green beer 50 Property deed 51 Mumbo jumbo 52 Chopin composition 53 Down the hatch
56 All over again
57 Catch one’s breath 60 Aggressive dog 61 Some PCs or printers