Universal Crossword
ACROSS
1 Practice hooks and jabs
5 “Don’t be so loud!”
8 Dissertation defenses,
usually
13 Helper
14 Second birthday gifts,
often
16 Lite, in a way
17 Substandard sports
residence?
19 Good name for a
professional mover?
20 Slithery fish
21 Name hidden in
“macaroni and cheese”
23 Baby horse
24 Something to leap over
27 Plentiful supply of a
tavern drink?
29 Exasperated parent’s
reiterated refusal
31 Arteries from left
ventricles
32 Million: Prefix
33 Snide grin
36 Part of a union meeting
in Santa’s workshop?
41 Battery end
42 More than want
45 Achieve
49 Split up, like a group
52 Paver’s delivery
vehicle?
55 Edible Thanksgiving
decorations
56 Fail to mention
57 Anger
58 Head gesture
59 Bellybutton
61 Joint of concern to an
orthopedist?
66 Letter-shaped dress
style
67 Unruly child
68 Currency that replaced
the peseta
69 Is ahead
70 Wonder
71 Doctor’s order, maybe
DOWN
1 Took a chair
2 Pizza order
3 Computing pioneer
Lovelace
4 Like college courses for
the ill-prepared
5 Pirated or pocketed
6 Carpool lane abbr.
7 “Laughing” beast
8 Aged
9 Worker who may be above doing some things
10 Not sinking
11 “I forgot the lyrics”
syllables
12 Art Deco and Gothic
Revival 15 Thin
18 Kept in reserve
22 Separately
24 That fellow
25 Utilize, to the
unpretentious
26 Anger
28 Cunning Norse god
30 Norwegian Nobel
Institute’s city
34 ___ school (future dr.’s
academy)
35 Chilled or frosted
37 Like a just ruling
38 Boredom
39 Within fiscal constraints
40 At hand
43 Finish
44 Common deg. for an
orthodontist
45 Missing a key?
46 Food wrapped in a corn
husk
47 Potential obstacle for a
crossword solver
48 Go to
50 Set on fire
51 With little delay
53 Clawed crustacean
54 Actress Knightley
60 French for “the”
62 What a bill may become
63 Cry’s partner
64 U.S. tax agency
65 Houseplant’s home
Today’s highlight:
On July 5, 1947, Larry Doby made his debut with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first Black player in the American League three months after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the National League.
On this date:
Isaac Newton first published his Principia Mathematica, a threevolume work setting out his mathematical principles of natural philosophy.
Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. commercial recording session took place at Sun Records in Memphis, Tenn.; the song he recorded was “That’s All Right.”
President Richard Nixon certified the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18.
Arthur Ashe became the first Black man to win a Wimbledon singles title as he defeated Jimmy
Connors, 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled that two laws passed by Congress did not end the right to a bond hearing for unaccompanied immigrant children who are detained by federal authorities.