UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Adhesive used with

wrapping paper

5 Quick haircut

9 Center of activity

12 Frog sounds

14 Car with a four-ring

logo

15 “Eureka!”

16 Without vegetation

17 Crowd doing a sudden

performance

19 Location

20 Poker stake

22 Like lox, but not locks

23 One with excellent

powers of deduction?

25 Small branch

27 “Dancing Queen” singer,

2018

28 Relative of bedhead

32 Toyed with, as a cat would

35 Get together

37 Liu who played a Ken

38 Russian river

39 Split up

40 “You’re not wrong”

41 Took a tumble

42 High-fat diet

43 Quick inhalations

44 Forges a signature, maybe

46 Hot box?

48 Hawaiian goose

49 Not too often 52 Some spring flowers

55 Becomes compost

57 Songwriter Tori

59 Green flecks on a tart

pie

61 Porch ___ (package thief )

63 Imitate

64 Dressing ingredient whose last letter stands for “oil”

65 “Do I ever!”

66 Writing implement

67 Reasonable

68 Russian ruler, formerly

DOWN

1 Characteristic

2 Blood line?

3 Better than all the

rest

4 Apt rhyme for

“squeak”

5 Only president to be a Supreme Court justice

6 Be in charge

7 Investigative journalist

Tarbell

8 Square peg in a round

hole

9 Scene stealers

10 “Yipes!”

11 Newborn

12 “The Price Is Right”

network

13 Drum kit component 18 What perfectionists have, or the tops of 3-, 6- and 21-Down?

21 “Cheers” character played by George

Wendt

24 Degree after an M.A.

26 Unit of power

29 Put on ___

(act superior)

30 “No need to wake

me!”

31 Wants to forget,

maybe

32 Magic dragon of kid’s

music

33 Neighborhood

34 Stroll

36 Have a meal

39 Comparable (to)

43 Mousse alternative

45 Grabs

47 Scooter whose name is

Italian for “wasp”

50 Poker variety, or a

Nebraska city

51 Power structure?

52 Give a round of

applause

53 Like a yellow banana

54 Foreboding sign

56 Central Plains people

58 Use a needle and thread

60 Actress Noblezada or

Longoria

62 QB’S error