South China Morning Post

Universal Crossword

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Across

1 Taiwanese tea type

5 Bungle

10 Carpenter or harvester insects

14 Fusses

15 Come after

16 Pedal pushers

17 *Keep?

20 Aggravate

21 Bring up

22 Supermarke­t walkway

23 What the world’s largest animal eats

25 Segment often measured in degrees

26 “Busy” buzzer

27 *Spam?

33 Chin indentatio­n

35 Mama’s mama, maybe 36 Yellowfin tuna

37 Word before “cord” or “current”

38 Puzzle-loving enemy of Batman

41 Deteriorat­e

42 “The loneliest number” 43 Fruit from a South American palm

44 Head lock?

46 *Pool?

50 Apply

51 Eats or drinks

52 Fix firmly

54 Sandbar

57 Macbeth’s title

59 Actress MacGraw or Larter 62 *Sega? (Hint: Read each starred clue differentl­y and interpret its answer as an instructio­n)

65 Guinness who played ObiWan Kenobi

66 One could say “I’m in heaven!”

67 What you may put on a cue ball

68 Statue’s bottom

69 They fly in V formations 70 Hushed “Hey, you!”

Down

1 Island south of Borneo

2 Aroma’s unpleasant relative 3 Job with three consecutiv­e double letters

4 Request

5 On ___ of (representi­ng) 6 “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” playwright Eugene 7 General ___ chicken

8 Adorable

9 Sneaky laugh syllable 10 Continent with the shortest coastline

11 It doesn’t exist before it breaks

12 Greenish blue

13 Eyelid concern

18 Sect leader?

19 Amelia who flew Across the Atlantic

24 Call, like an NBA game

25 What Zapzyt treats 26 Buckwheat pancakes

28 Taj Mahal’s country

29 Buddy

30 Prized postal possession­s 31 That and that

32 Prepares to be painted 33 Gator’s kin

34 Refrain from singing?

39 Puts a cold bag on

40 Small amount of gel

45 Regret

47 Word on an orange Monopoly card

48 Whooping birds

49 Popular e-reader

53 Doc for a puppy

54 Casual attempt

55 Dance in Waikiki

56 Rocks to assay

57 Voice quality

58 Bigger than big

60 Wreaths in Waikiki 61 Equivalent of “ain’t” 63 Dustcloth

64 WWW access enabler

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