South China Morning Post

Universal Crossword

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Across

1 Electric toothbrush feature

6 Jewish wedding dance

10 Range above tenor

14 “Who’s there?” response

15 Imitated

16 “Wuthering Heights” landform

17 *___ lazuli

18 *Speed reader, briefly?

19 *Hawkeye State

20 Fills with joy

22 Haul from a heist

24 ___ Juan, Puerto Rico

25 Ocasek of the Cars 26 IV units

28 Obstacle for the Titanic

30 Frodo’s bestie

31 *Add up

33 *Le ___ (Paris paper)

34 Pester constantly

36 Lil ___ X

37 Place to get a body scrub

38 Toys that are also tools, and a hint to the words split across the sets of asterisked clues’ answers

42 Pizza order

43 Formerly known as

44 Flop

46 *Thin food at a brunch station

49 *Candy ___ (striped treats)

51 Wrinkly little dog

53 Exercise practice in a high-temperatur­e room

55 Pampering initials

56 Before, in poems

57 Aah’s partner 58 Benchmark

60 “Dang it!”

62 *What inaptly bookends “I’m a PC”

64 *”65” actor Driver

66 *Feet in a sonnet

67 Lemon peel

68 “Saved by the Bell” character Turtle

69 Swiped or pinched

70 Witnesses

71 Meh

72 Zosia of “Girls”

Down

1 Put-down experts?

2 Language in which “sbagliato” means “mistaken”

3 Bow-wearing video game character who eats dots

4 Radiate

5 Cut out, surgically

6 Word before “trick” or “tree”

7 October birthstone

8 Shrink back

9 Like certain committees

10 “Why ___ not surprised?”

11 Relax, as a grip 12 Facing

13 Grove fruit

21 Candle- holder on a wall

23 ASU’s city

27 Headliner

29 Get on a plane

32 53-across posture

35 Small fish in a tank

37 “I Wish” rapper, 1995 39 Attach with string

40 Penny

41 Parent who might be reminded to “hang up the cape”

45 Long-lasting

46 Singing ensembles

47 Dorm sharer

48 Gas found in “Elizabetha­n era”

49 Exercise such as jogging, briefly

50 Sharp divide

52 Prepare

54 Aspiration­s

59 ___-produce (make lots of)

61 Spreadshee­t figures

63 Items from ‘90s mailorder music clubs

65 Chinese chairman in Warhol paintings

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