Universal Crossword

ACROSS

1 Be in harmony

5 Lower the bar before

raising it?

10 Word before “loser” or

“point”

14 Carpet measurement

15 About 28 grams

16 Candy with Left and

Right varieties

17 Small quibbles

18 French for “small”

19 Congressional staffer

20 ___ Park, Colorado

22 “Toy Story” villain

23 Change out of your PJS

24 TV program about

artistic baristas?

27 ___-Cat (winter vehicle)

28 Colorwithouta

common rhyme

32 Break in continuity

35 Like supervillains?

39 State openly

41 Actress Arthur

42 Likeabuginarug

43 Virtuous liar?

48 Samson used one’s

jawbone as a weapon

49 Fish and chips, but not

chips and salsa

50 “Exile in Guyville”

singer Phair

52 Big Apple track events?

59 Surgery for myopia 62 Unrefined rock

63 Sleek fabric

64 Symbol you might tap

65 Chopped into chunks

67 Oil job, informally

68 Animal with a sticky

tongue

69 Come to light

70 Frenemy of Garfield

71 They’re bigger than

fives

72 Portions (out)

73 One may run down your

cheek

DOWN

1 Treasury secretary Yellen

2 From Dublin, perhaps

3 Entertainer Midler

4 Flip chart stands

5 Soak (up)

6 Knightly job

7 Set loose

8 Vinegar and lemon juice,

chemically

9 Vietnamese New Year

10 Movie featuring The

Force

11 Injury, to a toddler

12 Purges

13 They may get back

together

21 Made music without an

instrument

23 Cartoon explorer 25 “Don’t spread yourself

___ thin”

26 Farming implement

29 Singer/activist Simone

30 Large antelopes

31 Cooks constantly break

them

32 Risk or Trouble

33 Shakespeare’s river

34 Left on the ship?

36 Japanese sash

37 Nickname that drops

“orah”

38 Laundry detergent

brand

40 Red flags

44 Chive relative

45 Hardly any

46 A male one has antlers

47 Hoops hoops

51 Fanatic

53 “Smile, ___ on Candid

Camera”

54 Make a round trip?

55 Witherspoon of “Big

Little Lies”

56 Piano student’s exercise

57 Shinbone

58 Unkind expression

59 Raise with a crane

60 Farmland measure

61 Before you know it

65 Patriots quarterback

Newton

66 ___ Moines