UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
Drop-down Menu by Sarah Butkovic and Jeff Chen, edited by David Steinberg ACROSS
1 Grinders and hoagies 5 Personal histories
10 Red or blue caplet in “The Matrix”
14 “What time ___?” 15 Chicago Sky star
Quigley
16 Zone
17 Diddly-squat
18 Chap who calls chips “crisps”
19 A Swiss army knife has many
20 Meaty appetizer served with ranch
23 Currently
24 Taken-back autos
28 Bobby who sang “Dream Lover”
29 Breakfast creation with a
fluffy white base
32 Name within “brainiac” 34 Once owned
35 A banana duct-taped to
the wall, to some
36 Light, fluffy dessert 41 Calif. airport near
SJC
42 Pen brand
43 Cabo ___ Lucas
44 Cold Filipino treat with a
repetitive name 47 Surprise attacks
51 Speak pompously 52 Candy wafer in a roll 54 Famed Manhattan neighborhood ... or where you wouldn’t find 20-, 29-, 36- and 44-Across?
58 Jigsaw puzzle side 61 Constantly vex 62 “___ off to you!” 63 Like a lemon
64 Hit hard, in the Bible 65 Frozen drink brand 66 Cats and snakes, e.g. 67 Puts a strain on 68 Dishonorable dudes
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1 2003 animated film about a legendary sailor
2 Patriotic American
chant
3 Try to buy, at an
auction
4 Hiring process
5 Painter Picasso 6 Authorize
7 Hardly speedy 8 Polynesian-themed bar
type
9 Spotted
10 Took a breather
11 Org. that takes many
forms?
12 Stan of Marvel Comics 13 “___ Mananitas”
(Mexican birthday song) 21 Musical about an
orphan
22 “Despicable Me”
antihero
25 Mountaintop
26 Shrek or Fiona
27 Cpl.’s superior
29 ___ Taco (former ice cream treat with a rhyming name) 30 Vientiane native 31 Ironically, they may be
even
33 Jessica of “Honey”
36 Not at all close
37 Mardi Gras city, for short 38 Chick-___-a
39 Diamond unit
40 Lawless
41 “Dexter” channel, for
short
45 Additional people 46 Laugh syllable in “Billie
Jean”
48 Destination in the
“Odyssey”
49 Did keto, say
50 Smell and taste 52 Navigate thin ice? 53 Dust arachnids
55 For fear that
56 Tibetan priest
57 Pixy ___ (candy) 58 Psychic’s “gift”: Abbr. 59 Buck passer?
60 ___ feeling (instinct)