UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

|“ALL MIXED UP”, BY CHASE DITTRICH

ACROSS

1 Canal location

4 River through Pisa 8 Days gone by

12 Felt sorry about 14 Wanders

16 A lot on ___ plate 17 Not supporting 18 Piece of street art 19 March Madness org. 20 AAOG and GOPL? 23 Dexys Midnight Runners’“Come On ___”

24 Director DuVernay 25 Alphabetical nickname

28 Popular bell pepper color

29 Rivers, in Costa Rica 32 1987 flop partially set in Morocco 34 Wake Young and Brigham Forest? 36 Video call issue 39 Wedding words 40 Shamu, for one 41 Cargo top and tube shorts? 46 Like “Bambi” or “Toy Story 4”

47 ___ of Sandwich 48 Tax expert, briefly 51 College, in British slang

52 Latin apology opener 54 Supermarket divisions

56 Mike Mantle and Mickey Trout? 60 Otherwise

62 “That’s it for me” 63 Bachelor after Nick 64 Bisque or chowder 65 J’s position in the alphabet 66 Laughfest

67 Sappho, e.g. 68 Volleyball hits before spikes 69 Jewel cases’ contents

DOWN

1 Many a pen lacks one

2 ___ Anne’s (pretzel chain)

3 Like a favorite story 4 Georgia neighbor 5 Gravy thickener 6 Drug cop

7 Nebraska’s largest city

8 Early video game 9 Person discovered through 23andMe 10 Word before “snake” or “cow”

11 Org. hidden in “airport safety” 13 They can show snake eyes

15 Like Czechs

21 Warriors coach

Steve

22 “A Beautiful Mind” subject John

26 1 on the Mohs scale 27 ___ Minor (Little Bear constellation) 30 Chief Norse god 31 Swamp growth 33 Big earring

34 Carry

35 Former

Cub Sammy

36 Light beige 37 Extended family group

38 It’s debatable

42 Cable type that may plug into a monitor: Abbr.

43 “Ah, makes sense!” 44 Ghostly spirits 45 Landed on a branch, say

48 Priestly class in Dungeons & Dragons

49 C.S. Lewis character? 50 Inventory and cash

53 Pinnacles

55 Lead performer 57 Bawled

58 Refine

59 Jabba, for one 60 Inexplicable ability, for short

61 British bathroom