UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Teacher of the Torah

6 At a great distance

10 Softball implements 14 Neptune’s home

15 Ad award

16 Elite English prep school

17 Mall anchor, often (In this answer, note the first 2 letters + the last 3)

19 Rational

20 Clark of the Daily Planet

21 Gymnast Mary ___ Retton

22 Sunny courtyards

23 Very concerned (first 3 letters + last 1)

26 Throat ailment, in brief

29 Crafted

30 Taj ___

31 Physicist Niels

33 Earsplitting

37 Jekyll and Hyde, e.g. (first 2 letters + last 2)

40 Garment under a dress

41 Fully stretched

42 ___ Elise Goldsberry (“Hamilton” star)

43 Emphatic lead-in to “yes”

45 Puts a label on, say

46 “You and me both!” (first 2 letters + last 1)

51 Early Peruvians 52 Objective

53 PBJs’ meaty cousins

57 Singer Paisley

58 Tries something dangerous (first 2 letters + last 2)

61 Bronte heroine Jane

62 Ready for business

63 Egyptian peninsula

64 Buck or doe

65 Emotional wreck 66 Not prone to goofing around

DOWN

1 Genre for Styx and the Stones

2 Soreness

3 Coffee source

4 Fishing lure

5 Road trip lodging

6 Hardy or Holland

7 Bakery sackful

8 Voice, as grievances

9 Sturgeon eggs

10 It flies off the shelves

11 Video game pioneer

12 Invigorating concoction

13 Quarterback’s plunge play

18 Sty serving 22 Contribute

23 Modern slang for “Alas ...”

24 “It’s a sauna in here!”

25 Bring home the bacon

26 Title character in a “Breaking Bad” spinoff

27 Spicy Asian cuisine

28 Consumer advocate who ran for president four times

30 Many OB-GYNs

31 ___ lights (car parts)

32 Columbus sch.

34 Sty sound

35 Great Basin tribe

36 Give color to?

38 Set in stone?

39 Many a Yemeni

44 Little green men: Abbr.

45 Flowers at Texas homecomings, briefly

46 Were in accord

47 End of a sandwich order

48 “It matters to me”

49 Wedding desserts

50 Claims used as collateral

53 Hardy or Holland

54 Script part

55 Bygone Russian royal

56 Body covering

58 Hardy or Holland

59 Gorilla, e.g.

60 Beast of burden