Universal Crossword

ACROSS

1 Some shirts have one

built in

4 Instance of fraud

8 Valentine’s Day flower,

often

12 Big jump

13 Pondered aloud

15 Filled with wonder

16 A singular time

17 Eat away at

18 “Super cool!”

19 *Documents on who’s

been naughty and nice?

22 Big ___, California

23 Madison Square

Garden, e.g.

24 Word after “Mother” or

“silly”

28 Pyromaniac’s crime

30 *.,,,?

32 Color that represents

anger

34 Court

35 Brouhaha

36 Elite athlete

40 “Blitzkrieg Bop” band

43 Its HQ is in Langley, Va.

44 “Scream” director

Craven

46 Goal of some

sunbathers

47 *Trendy isms?

51 Do a queen’s job

55 Follow

56 Furious 58 ___-Magnon

59 *Poetry competition

hosted by Nana?

62 Piece of dough in a

French restaurant?

65 “Piece of cake,” e.g.

66 Wee bit

67 Genesis twin

68 Compact

69 Feels badly about

70 Time to give up?

71 Bring up, or something

to bring up

72 Cards on lanyards

DOWN

1 1959 film with chariots

2 Formula One competitors

3 Highest point

4 Defame

5 Earned a trip to the

swear jar

6 At this point

7 Go-between

8 Price of freedom?

9 “You ___ me big time!”

10 Briny expanse

11 Summer hours in D.C.

12 Tons of

14 “Barb and Star Go to Vista ___ Mar” (2021 comedy)

20 French painter Edouard

21 Freudian concept

25 Country whose flag has crossed swords over a khanjar 26 “No Ordinary Love”

singer

27 Those, in Spanish

29 Areas for surgical

residents: Abbr.

31 Layer of stain

33 Top ___ Entertainment

(record label)

36 Really feel yesterday’s

workout

37 Pride member

38 Back muscles, for short

39 String around the finger,

e.g.

41 Members of some

stable families?

42 “___ more song!”

(“Encore!”)

45 Fish in a tin

48 Where a baseball team

sits

49 “___ the fields we

go ...”

50 Savory baked pastry

52 Apple storage service

53 Drain covers

54 “That’s enough!” ... and a hint to the origins of the starred clues’ answers

57 More domesticated

60 Assistance

61 iphone speaker?

62 Fish in a caterpillar roll

63 Function

64 Competed in a 5K