Universal Crossword
ACROSS
1Source of some unwanted feedback
4“Quit it!”
8 Woman who leads a family (X = ARCH)
14 Actress Thurman
15High-fat diet
16 Enter with troops
17 Road coating
18Excited about
19 Tuchus
20Soap opera about certain Londoners (X = AS)
23 Single-channel
24More quirky 25Luau necklaces
27Teased, with “with”
28Base for red trucks (X = REST)
32Step after “lather”
33 Round before a final
34Islamic sect
35 Friend, in France
36Traveler’s flight (X = RIP)
39 Mont Blanc, e.g.
40 Joke around
42 Fundamentals 43Assigns stars to
45 Big burden (X = LOTTO)
47Scoped out before robbing
48 Give up, as land
49 “Tell me already!”
50Tie to a dock
52 Algebra directive ... and a hint to decoding five entries in this puzzle
56 Place to let sleeping dogs lie
58Water marker?
59Archer’s asset
60 What blowhards and some balloons are full of
61 Fairy-tale monster
62 Place for a facial
63 Black-andwhite puzzles, colloquially ... and what the five sets of parentheses contain
64Guesses: Abbr.
65 “Jeopardy!” host Jennings
DOWN
1 Silencing button
2 Huge movie format
3 Humorously exaggerated
4 Superficial
5Looked after
6Sea animal with dense fur
7 Low-quality
8‘97sci-fi film hidden in “Miami Blues”
9 Iron deficiency
10Pat Sajak and Steve Harvey
11Wet forecast
12Digits on a plastic card: Abbr.
13 Marked, as a ballot
21Ice cream brand
22Covers with goo
26 Enter’s opposite
27Watch brand
28 Fight with an epee, say
29 “Gotta broach a difficult question ...”
30 Greased
31Afternoon rests
32Indian prince
33Dark weasellike critters
37Cheryl of “Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups”
38Sources of Superman’s piercing looks
41Station with shells and salsa
44“Oh, su-u-ure!”
46 Attendant of Poseidon
47Prance around
49Snails’ relatives
50Cat’s cry
51 Springfield bus driver
53 High woodwind
54 Ready to pick
55Marvel’s Beast or Wolverine
56Ariz. airport
57 Neurologists, e.g.: Abbr.