UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “Everything ___ Changed” (Taylor Swift song)
4 University in Houston
8 “Goodness gracious!”
12 Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn
14 Org. that approves hard hats
15 Investigate
16 Seizure of power
18 Chip away at
19 Nairobi’s land
20 Asian food store
22 ___ instinct
23 Sia hit with the lyric “Baby, I don’t need dollar bills to have fun tonight”
26 Put a fresh coat on
29 Covered in grease
30 Too formal
31 Female deer
33 Runs away
36 Tonic’s partner
37 Common stir-fry green
40 French fashion monogram
41 Rim shot drum 43 Band’s booking
44 “Relative” of Bigfoot
45 So bad that it’s good, in Gen Z slang
47 Future syrup, perhaps
49 Sentry’s question
53 “You’ve got mail” co. 54 Cognizant (of )
55 “Fingers crossed!”
59 Word before “saw” or “smoker”
61 Natural sounds that the starts of 16-, 23-, 37- and 49-Across resemble
63 Great praise
64 Words per minute, for one
65 “Read ’em and ___!”
66 Country found inside Romania?
67 Commotions
68 ___ Jose
DOWN
1 Break into, digitally
2 Soothing succulent
3 Created, as yarn from wool
4 Fish eggs
5 Request for consent 6 Winner, casually
7 Go to, as a restaurant 8 Screw up
9 Craft items that roll easily?
10 Pop star Paula
11 Specifics, slangily
13 Surveillance device, for short
15 Become stone
17 Indian yogurt
21 Greek letter used to represent density
24 Prefix with “skeleton”
25 Not well
26 Dungeons & Dragons and Undertale: Abbr.
27 Ireland, in old poems
28 Drink that might come with a paper umbrella
32 Certain heart reading, for short
34 “Como ___ usted?”
35 What someone might do on a banana peel
37 Laments
38 Until now
39 Shrek, for one
42 Cloth scrap
44 Bull-riding cheer 46 Church bench
48 Carle who wrote
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
49 Off-the-wall 50 Unexciting
51 Big name in hummus
52 B-D-F or C-E-G, in music
56 Bullfight cheers
57 “Guilty” or “not guilty”
58 “Monday Night Football” channel
60 OH- or NH4+
62 ___ Moines