Universal Crossword
ACROSS
1 Alphabetical nickname
4 Belly, to a tot
7 Incoming flight stat
10 Org. concerned with
teeth
13 Schlep
14 Spanish for “one”
15 *Rest against
17 Zazie Beetz show set in
Georgia’s capital
19 It’s hotter than a
jalapeno
20 See 22-Across
22 With 20-Across, constructing a country’s identity ... or what’s happening in the starred answers? (Note: Read the extra letters in order for a bonus)
23 Make a priest, say
25 Waterfall spray
26 *“Not a chance!”
29 Estimate
31 Lead-in to “carte”
32 They were big and
woolly
35 Story with a lesson
39 “Good evening,” in Nice
41 Shortcomings
43 Sprinted
44 Washer cycle
45 *Longtime U.S. airline
48 ___-Carlton 50 Andean relative of a
camel
52 *Misrepresent
54 *Jones is a common
one
58 Like Morehouse
60 Rode a bike
61 *Spain’s main airline
62 Singer Difranco
63 How technology quickly
starts to feel
64 ___ cream social
65 Feature of “i” or “j,” but
not “k”
66 List-ending abbr.
67 Plaything
DOWN
1 Chunk of marble
2 South African Nobelist
Desmond
3 Unattractive-sounding
fruit
4 Largely treeless Arctic
region
5 Not neat
6 Disney film whose title is
Maori for “ocean”
7 Chi-town trains
8 Future twentysomething
9 Jill who was The New York Times’ first female executive editor
10 Mitchell or Nin
11 Prohibition’s beginning?
12 Soon, quaintly 16 Frida Kahlo and Diego
Rivera
18 “That was ___ blow!”
21 Billion: Prefix
24 Desensitizes
26 Siesta
27 “Frozen” snowman
28 ___ avis
30 Angsty rock style
32 Genius’ organization
33 “Hava Nagila” dance
34 Thailand, once
36 Expensive slot in the
Super Bowl broadcast
37 Major snowstorm
38 “Fast & Furious 6”
director Justin
40 Molecule in a cell
42 Hair goops
45 Source of life?
46 Tart to the taste
47 Granny
48 The Holy Grail, for one
49 Exclamation of
amazement
51 Cocoon occupants
52 Indonesian vacation
destination
53 Boy in “Call Me by Your
Name”
55 Tons and tons
56 NBA star Anthony, for
short
57 Small whirlpool
59 Consume
Today’s highlight:
On Feb. 27, 1933, Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire; Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming the Communists, used the fire to justify suspending civil liberties.
On this date:
In 1922, the Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote.
In 1939, the Supreme Court, in National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp., effectively outlawed sitdown strikes.
In 1942, the Battle of the Java Sea began during
World War II; Imperial Japanese naval forces scored a decisive victory over the Allies.
In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.
In 1968, at the conclusion of a CBS News special report on the Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite delivered a commentary in which he said the conflict appeared “mired in stalemate.”
In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until the following May.)