South China Morning Post

Universal Crossword

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Across

1 Civilisati­on in the Passover story

6 Grand ___ (tennis feat) 10 PC brand

14 Zipper component

15 Caesar’s attire

16 Stuffing herb

17 You may play with it at a casino (In this answer, note the first 2 letters + the last 3)

19 Urge to act

20 ___ B. Wells (civil rights pioneer)

21 Texter’s exclamatio­n

22 Actress Holly Robinson ___

23 First parts of CPR? (first 2 letters + last 4)

28 “Trusty” mount

29 Consume

30 Stretch the truth

31 Rep. of N.Y.’s 14th district

33 Marching insect

34 Tends to spilled milk 35 Certain wasps, or the words that wrap around 17-, 23-, 48- and 57-across?

39 “My bad”

40 “I’ve got it!”

41 “___ be better off ...”

42 Public transit option

43 Colorado native

44 Currency that anagrams to “liras”

48 Be constantly annoying (first 2 letters + last 3)

53 “Eternals” director Zhao

54 Missions, briefly

55 Answering machine’s beep, e.g.

56 Sci-fi saucers

57 “Sounds rough” (first 4 letters + last 3)

61 Smallest of the litter

62 Tennis legend Arthur

63 Tony winner ___ Elise Goldsberry

64 “Frozen” character who can control ice

65 Settled a debt

66 Tough jumps in skating

Down

1 Moral principles

2 Skilled in

3 “I know ___, but what am I?”

4 Score units: Abbr.

5 Not just any

6 Crush grapes, say

7 Sound of music?

8 Grow older

9 Month with the shortest name

10 Colorado ski resort

11 Feel great concern

12 Vain “voyages”

13 Aptly named flights

18 Cow’s call

22 Cookware item

24 Nice bargains

25 False deity

26 “The Chi” creator Waithe

27 Fire starter, at times

32 Raccoon relative

33 2020 WNBA MVP Wilson

34 Field doctor

35 Fresh-faced

36 Deltas’ followers

37 Question of time

38 Warriors coach found in “locker rooms”

39 Relatively unknown

43 Hawaiian instrument, briefly

45 Relatively unknown

46 Winner’s wreath

47 Stockholm residents

49 ___ Rica

50 Mario’s dinosaur sidekick

51 Chose

52 Computer port initials

57 Flight tracker backdrop

58 Mex. neighbour

59 Notable time

60 Curse

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