UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Catcher’s catcher

5 Some shade trees

9 Secure URL opening 14 UCLA women’s basketball

coach ___ Close

15 Like highlighter colors 16 Anticipate

17 Bad mood

18 Bird extinct since the late

1600s

19 “Inside Out” protagonist 20 *Some hunks on a

charcuterie board 23 Artistic license? 25 Executive No. 2s 26 Higher-___ (superiors) 27 Used a shovel

29 Teacher’s org.

30 Free ad

33 Artsy LA or NYC

neighborhood

35 *Bold boardroom attire 38 Be a bad winner

40 Balloon filler

41 Small mammal with a

long snout

42 *Flat-screen sets with

extremely crisp displays 45 Rescue

46 “Help us!” letters

47 Prof’s helpers 48 “Uh-huh!”

50 “Shop ___ you drop” 51 Part of mph

52 Close up again

54 HBO miniseries based on a Gillian Flynn novel ... and what the starred clues’ answers are? 59 Game Boy Color button 60 Most of a termite’s diet 61 Denny’s competitor 64 Tonkatsu breadcrumbs 65 Norse trickster god 66 Number of spaces in a tictac-toe grid

67 Anxious feeling

68 Zoomed 69 Genre for some Seoul singers

DOWN

1 Some rap battlers, briefly 2 Particle carrying a charge 3 Pool player’s showy

moves

4 Religious donation 5 Eventually became

6 Many August births 7 Airplane ___

8 Winter flakes

9 “Definitely not doing that” 10 Small sticks

11 Word after “tall” or “fairy” 12 Some diner desserts 13 Hog’s home

21 Festival, in Arabic

22 “Best. Day. ___.” 23 Mushroom or mold

24 U.S. moon landing

program

28 Eggs on

29 Full of chutzpah

30 The Jolly Roger in “Peter

Pan,” e.g.

31 Plant-based sweetener 32 In addition

34 Rowboat propeller 36 Clever humor

37 Pause fillers

39 Starchy bite atop a hot

dish

43 Stringed instrument with

seven pedals

44 “Yes, I took care of that!” 49 Chest muscle, briefly 51 Urban green spaces 53 Smell really bad

54 Lee of Marvel Comics 55 Put up, as wall art

56 Birds that give a hoot 57 Playfully tap on the nose 58 Bit with a punch line 59 Massage site

62 Activist and musician

Yoko

63 Lively energy