UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
Moooove Along
1 Pale purple shade
6 Pub projectile
10 Drink whose logo has two lizards
14 Smiling Face with HeartEyes or Loudly Crying Face
15 Frankenstein’s assistant
16 Opera solo
17 Implied
18 “Star Trek” role for George Takei
19 Final
20 *Country trio with the 2002 hit “These Days”
23 “Abbott Elementary” airer
26 Performing pair
27 Felt hat
28 Anyone born in the 1950s
30 ___ monster (desert lizard)
32 Go bad
33 *Vendors at a weekly market
36 “Taylor Swift: The ___
Tour” (2023 film)
37 Hawaii’s Mauna ___
38 Leave out
42 *Colorful reef dwellers
47 Sweet potato
50 Clickable desktop image
51 Simple shelter
52 Kind of short play
54 Plead
55 Debtor’s letters
56 “Relax!” ... or a advice to a solver who can’t figure out what’s hidden in each starred clue’s answer
60 ___ Mountains (Eurasian range)
61 Lab container
62 “Don’t slouch!”
66 U.S. immigration policy
for “Dreamers”
67 “Anything ___?”
68 Delete
69 Squeezes (out)
70 Avocado pit, e.g.
71 Competitive personality
DOWN
1 Marathon segment
2 Texter’s “I think ...”
3 Parking place
4 Open a little
5 Strong fortress
6 ’70s music genre
7 Water, in Barcelona
8 Tootsie ___
9 Chocolate confection named for a prized underground mushroom
10 Cobb or Caesar
11 One on a soapbox, maybe
12 Cafe
13 Patronizes, as a
12-Down
21 Hang 10, say
22 Shakespearean king
23 Well-qualified
24 Unrefined sort
25 ___-Cola
29 Ship’s sail holder
30 What an athlete might pull
31 Apple on a desk?
34 Iams competitor
35 Couch
39 Bite-size
40 Comparison words
41 You, way back when?
43 Like calorie-dense desserts
44 Four, for Ariana Grande’s vocal range
45 Actor Guinness
46 The 3,955-piece “Home Alone” McCallisters’ house, e.g.
47 “Sup man!”
48 Parka relative
49 Major pest
53 Map book
54 Bundled, as hay
57 Repulsive
58 Soothe
59 Like a poodle’s coat
63 Kind of dance for Savion Glover
64 Employ
65 Little green veggie