Universal Crossword
ACROSS
1 P.F. _ _ _’s 6 Metaphorical hurdle to jump through 10 Unleashes (on) 14 Edmonton NHL player 15 _ _ _ child (person without siblings) 16 Have down pat 17 Suds that may be sudsy 19 Cambodia’s continent 20 Cutesy name for the pads on feline paws 21 Eighth of a circle 23 Excited about something 25 Cooped (up) 26 Liability’s counterpart 29 “Come again?” 32 Moans and groans? 34“Aye aye, ___!” 35 Meh 36 Word before “joke” or “bod” 37ET of ‘80s TV 39Kin, for short 41 Operation Phone Home org. 42 Design detail, briefly 44 Blunder 46___ chocolate cake 48 Utter delight? 51 En _ _ _ (all together) 52 Places 53 Bidirectional 55 Move from the bar to a table, say 57 Performance for Rupaul 61 Pretentiously cultured 62 “Been there!” 64Powerful wind 65 Meat spread 66 Caramel-filled chocolates 67 Cotton swabs have many 68 Tiff 69 Like sugar
DOWN
1 Expense 2 “The Farmer in the Dell” syllables 3___ vera 4 Beginners 5 Hot drink with a colorful name 6 Schmooze 7 Babies’ bodysuits 8 World Cup cheer 9 Fire-related prefix 10 They may do triple axels 11 Tricks of the trade 12 Fifty-fifty flips 13Buzzer beater? 18 Rodent first sent to space in 1961 22 Tax pro 24 “Weekend, here I come!” 26 “Therefore ...” 27 Shows heavily represented at the Daytime Emmys 28 Source of extra income 30 Stroller in Stratford 31Nary a soul 33 Vehicle for sand or snow 38 Greek life group 40 Portmanteau for some parents of child stars 43 Feline makeup that Taylor Swift draws “sharp enough to kill a man” 45 Numbers to be crunched 47 Avoids the spotlight 49 Secretive org. 50 Yellow jacket relative 54“It’s ___!” (“Oh, it’s on!”) 55 Pasta sauce brand 56 Pointers 58 Robust 59 Central Plains people 60 Egypt-to-libya direction 63 Mushroom’s top