UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Brief message

5 Value

10 Chain of movie

theaters

13 Car rental company 14 Greetings from Hawaii 16 Military conflict

17 When two fairly matched giraffes raced, they were ...

19 Whichever

20 Like a walkie-talkie that’s

close enough

21 Winter excursion 23 Surgeons’ spots, for

short

24 When two fairly matched zombies raced, it was a ...

25 Fishing implement 27 Farmland measurement 30 Airport security org.

31 “I caught you!”

32 Gave a call 33 Well-organized

37 When two fairly matched rock climbers raced, victory was ...

42 Slugger Sammy

43 The world’s second most

traded currency

44 Carly ___ Jepsen 45 Important ID

48 Adjust, as an article 49 Make up stories 50 When two fairly matched gamblers raced, it was a ... 54 Frigid

56 Basic metabolic panel,

for one

57 Charter option for a

sports team

61 LAX landing guess 62 When two fairly matched cameramen raced, it came down to a ...

64 Bog

65 Floats in the air 66 Canadian First Nations

group

67 Chiding word

68 Stuck on, as an idea 69 Chances

DOWN

1 Fingernail treatment,

informally

2 Fairly matched 3 Extremely small pictures,

say

4 Schindler with a list 5 Designer Vera

6 Quaint, quaintly

7 Harry’s pal

8 This and that

9 Try to chop through

10 In the know

11 Obsession

12 Burial chamber 15 Experiences poor

traction

18 Comedian Aziz 22 Macbeth’s title 24 Angle units

25 This puzzle has 15 of

them

26 Akron’s state

28 Soup holder 29 Messenger molecule 34 One gets the worm 35 Berry in some purple

smoothies

36 You, before you were

born?

38 Lacks

39 It’s not clear!

40 ___ Lanka 41 Corkscrew pasta 46 Curry of the Warriors 47 Flaky ticket holder 50 Chin indent

51 Author Joyce

Carol ___

52 Goldman Sachs, e.g.,

slangily

53 Appliance with a

cooktop

55 ___ de Mayo 57 Comedian Sahl

58 In that case

59 Like items in a thrift

store

60 “___ in her element” 63 Nickname related to

Theo