Universal Crossword
ACROSS
1 “Get lost!”
6 Hans Christian Andersen,
nationality-wise
10 “Just joking!”
14 “Star Trek” bridge officer
15 Boys’ school near
Windsor Castle
16 Sticking point?
17 One’s history,
redundantly
19 Clearasil target
20 Pose for a portrait
21 Amusement park
conveyance
22 Rapper with the platinum album “La
Bella Mafia”
24 Like the piper of
Hamelin
25 Some comedy sketches
26 Warning, redundantly
30 Ace the exam
31 Miners’ finds
32 Mai ___
35 Christmas purchase
36 Downed a sub, say?
37 Yours and mine
38 Stitch together
39 Freight hauler
41 Oil unit
43 Misrepresentation of
fact, redundantly
46 Goofs
48 “The Simpsons” bus
driver
49 Anti- relative
50 British “Bye!”
51 “That ship ___ sailed”
54 Lacking in manners
55 Fresh face at boot
camp, redundantly
58 Applications
59 Skinned knee, say, to a
tot
60 Main language in India
61 Muppet with a unibrow
62 Give for a while
63 Lawn tool for borders
DOWN
1 Enjoys dinner
2 Beverage that rhymes
with “rye”
3 Car body problem
4 Works in a gallery
5 Drink often garnished
with an olive
6 Ten-year span
7 Neutron’s home
8 Neither’s partner
9 Finish behind schedule
10 Slanted, as type
11 First carry of the game 12 Nonprotruding navel
13 Considers
18 Not slouching
23 “Indeed!”
24 Washed-out
25 Needing a massage
26 Aardvarks’ fare
27 Have the courage
28 What a photographer
looks through
29 Punishment for bad
service, perhaps
33 Greek god who fought
Hercules
34 Scotland’s ___ of Skye
36 Iowa State home
37 Nabisco cookie
39 Bit of slander
40 Tijuana tongue
41 Midler who was Johnny
Carson’s final guest
42 Business case?
44 Precollege exam
45 Laughed loudly
46 Clean vigorously
47 Despicable sort
50 One may be identical
51 Displayed, like a painting
52 Senate worker
53 Soup recipe direction
56 Merino mom
57 Divest (of)
Today’s highlight:
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 with 239 people on board, vanished during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, setting off a massive and unsuccessful search.
On this date:
In 1618, German astronomer Johannes
Kepler devised his third law of planetary motion.
In 1817, the New York Stock & Exchange Board, which had its beginnings in 1792, was formally organized; it later became known as the New York Stock Exchange.
In 1930, the 27th president of the United States, William Howard Taft, died in Washington at age 72.
In1948, the Supreme
Court, in Mccollum v. Board of Education, struck down voluntary religious education classes in Champaign, Illinois, public schools, saying the program violated separation of church and state.
In 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines arrived to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang.
In 1979, tech firm Philips demonstrated a prototype compact disc player during a press conference in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
In 1988, 17 soldiers were killed when two Army helicopters from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, collided in mid-flight.
In 2004, Iraq’s Governing Council signed a landmark interim constitution.