UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Speak off the cuff
6 File that may be read-only 9 Takes ten 14 Tranquility 15 Organ with a drum
16 State ID?
17 Clear wrap brand
18 “Live Free or ___” 19 One of many on
a Shasta daisy 20 Netflix series in which Taylor Schilling played Piper Chapman 23 Soda brand whose name is a soda can part
24 Sir, to Beyonce and Jay-Z 25 Itinerary word 28 Classic TV show
set on an island 31 Monotony 36 Ultimately profits
39 “No man is an island” poet 40 Boorish
41 Tales that are
spun
43 No longer
working: Abbr. 44 Prickly plant 46 Dessert with a dense lower layer of chocolate custard 48 Picked up without touching, say? 50 Relatives of hisses
51 Drink often served with scones
52 Heavy weight 54 Fiscal org. based
in D.C.
56 Treat with two
kinds of icing 64 Frighten
65 ___ pal (rhyming
friend)
66 Group of rooms
in a hotel
67 Like “It”
68 Many mins. 69 Thin chip maker 70 “Tales From
the ___”
71 Lower digit 72 Mushroom parts
DOWN
1 Lhasa ___ 2 Cherished 3 Heroine in “Doc
tor Zhivago” 4 Words from one
who’s unable 5 East Indian, say 6 Foot treatment,
informally 7 Candidate’s
platform
8 Stews (over) 9 Matured
10 “East of ___”
11 Fill with food 12 Warming of
relations
13 Note that becomes a musical piece when “o” is added 21 Ivory’s partner 22 Sexy
25 Action words 26 Accustom 27 Introduce
to the mix 29 Spear with a fork 30 Pulsate
32 Brown building? 33 Far from
competent 34 Loosen, like laces
35 Jason’s mythical wife 37 Watery expanses 38 Prefix meaning
“inside” 42 Unlikely to
explode? 45 Signal boost,
in a way 47 Assimilation of
ideas 49 Head-slapping
comment 53 Time for a fire
works show 55 Rich source, as
of knowledge 56 Taiwanese tech giant
57 ___ a soul
(no one) 58 Leak sound 59 Root in purple
boba 60 Otherwise 61 Certain bird or
toy 62 Twosome in
Variety 63 Wriggly
swimmers 64 NYSE overseer