UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Do some needlework, maybe
4 Calf-length dress
8 Variety show under a big top
14 Baby’s cry
15 Powerful Norse god
16 Greek goddess of wisdom
17 It’s game night, and you’re on a roll! You started with Scrabble, but your opponents were ...
20 Don, as clothing
21 Small jazz group
22 Refusals
23 Thinly scattered
25 Sushi seaweed
27 ... then you played Twister, which left your opponents ...
33 ___ Lingus
35 Not wild
36 Number that’s odd, despite its last four letters
37 Family ___
39 Pals, to Londoners
42 Binary digit
43 Sporty Mazda
45 Zodiac crustacean
47 Tease
48 ... so you moved on to Catan, and made your opponents ... 52 ___ mater
53 One who might make a long story short
56 (Hello! I’m a dog!)
59 “Pink Friday Girls”
rapper Nicki
62 Sleeper’s sound
63 ... finally, you ended the night with Jenga, which left your opponents ...
66 Lotion brand
67 “Just joshing you!”
68 Pond carp
69 Bookworm
70 Head, in French
71 Nine-digit fig.
DOWN
1 Exchanges
2 Totally enjoy
3 “This is so nice!”
4 Lunar event near the horizon
5 Names, informally
6 Compact ___
7 Deets
8 C in biology class?
9 “Success!”
10 Greek letter that sounds like fish eggs
11 Large Hadron Collider’s lab
12 Ctrl+Z
13 ’Tude
18 “Shark Tank” investor Greiner 19 Hilton competitor
24 Cheese that’s made up?
26 American gospel singer Andrews, whose name anagrams to “zine”
28 “Kill Bill” star Thurman
29 Retailer with leashes and collars
30 Orders more than necessary, say
31 “Tootsie” actress Garr
32 Highfalutin sort
33 Dough dispensers
34 Shallowest Great Lake
38 Jazzy James
40 Make a mistake
41 Small Business Saturday event
44 “I’m not sharing with you!”
46 Alarm clock location, maybe
49 Key with one sharp
50 Large canine?
51 Trig function
54 Cookies in some Blizzards
55 Cedar secretion
56 A ways away
57 Dance party
58 Pet’s peeve
60 Fighting
61 Word after “running” or “inside”
64 Headed
65 Avocado discard