UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Play a guitar lightly

6 Freeway exit

10 Unit of power

14 Rub out

15 Youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II

17 Type of naval ship in “Top Gun”

19 Marie Curie’s title: Abbr.

20 Ignited

21 Accumulate, as expenses

22 Quarterback’s shout before long pass

25 2021 award for Simone Biles

26 What a paper jam may cause

31 I, for Aristotle

32 Something borrowed

33 Item lugged by a roadie

36 Sticky note

39 Certain hockey or soccer player

41 Pigpen

42 Speaker’s platform

45 Pepsi Max, for one

46 Bram Stoker or Stephen King, e.g.

50 Old-timey wizard

53 Was jealous of

54 Toad sound

56 Text paired with “thx”

57 “How cute!”

60 Railroad container for perishables

65 Out of it

66 Stovetop/oven combo

67 Prankster in “The Simpsons”

68 Vehicle with treads

69 Preadolescent

DOWN

1 Fabric-to-fabric border

2 Cut back a little

3 Like many valuable stamps

4 School near UCLA

5 Red wine that lost market share after “Sideways”

6 Roof support

7 Industrious insect

8 Computer since 1984

9 Ad Council spot, for short

10 Surname of studio co-founders Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack

11 Japanese rival of Nike

12 Secure with ropes

13 Dawdle

16 Prefix for “color” or “cycle”

18 ___-de-camp

22 Swarming pest

23 Long fish jellied in England

24 Upside

26 Domino spots

27 Cube ___ (3, for 27)

28 Teeny

29 Use for an old T-shirt

30 Yoko heard on “Revolution 9”

33 Scads

34 5,280 feet

35 Bulbous-bottomed fruit

37 Nuptial agreement

38 Goo from coal

40 LSD

43 Fury

44 Thor, to Odin

46 Media baron who inspired “Citizen Kane”

47 Motor home campsite

48 Droop like a daisy

49 Word after “last” or “summer”

50 Elusive fast-food pork sandwich

51 Athletic stadium

52 Succeed at a high level

55 Snakebite ___ (hiker’s safety set)

57 Benzoyl peroxide target

58 Earnings per hour

59 Bird on South Carolina’s quarter

61 Home to your microbiome

62 Clean Air Act org.

63 Oregon senator Wyden

64 Like carpaccio or ceviche