UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Place mat’s place
6 Backless seat
11 Item once common
in a glove compartment
14 Geometry
calculations
15 Michelle’s predecessor in
the White House
16 Yoko whose son is
Sean Lennon
17 Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel
and Seth?
19 Blasting letters
20 London gallery
21 What can be added to
impress?
22 Top dogs
24 “The Persistence of
Memory” painter
26 Zzzzzzz
27 PC key under Z
30 Venus?
34 Use for a
rendezvous
36 Court romantically
37 Sky’s color, in France
38 Cause of ruin
39 Barbecue site
40 Long, long times
41 Fails to be
42 A, in Austria
43 Web discussion site 45 Ph.D.?
48 Most frequent letters in
“Sean Lennon”
49 Agra attire
50 Thousand ___, Calif.
52 Care for a calico
54 Tampa Bay NFL player, briefly
55 Stumble
59 Indigo or violet
60 D?
63 Glass on the radio?
64 Student getting one-on-one help
65 Kind of box or saw
66 Popular cooking spray
67 Frets
68 “Bark,” to a dog trainer
DOWN
1 Only chief justice who was a former president
2 Diva’s delivery
3 Ernie’s roommate
4 Did some light surgery?
5 “C’___ la vie!”
6 Like Serbs and Croats
7 Domesticate
8 French for “yes”
9 Magic place?
10 Stayed out of sight
11 Main vein
12 The “I” of “The King and I”
13 Flower holders
18 ___ mignon
23 Dug into
25 Words between “cool”
and “cucumber”
26 Little brat
27 Scope
28 Chow line?
29 Group known for
raising rackets?
31 Needing to repay
32 First leader of the Soviet
Union
33 Prepares to look for
fingerprints
35 Bright fish in
aquariums
39 Bakery buys that rhyme
with “buys”
42 Cut from a column,
maybe
43 Arm span
44 “A rat!”
46 Piles formed by
blizzards
47 Mail carriers’ circuits
51 Bacon unit
52 Vase defect
53 Mystical glow
54 Beer or tea
56 Put on a scale
57 Brainstorming
result
58 Benefit such as
paid time off
61 Arapaho foe
62 Baseball VIPs