UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Food with a tortilla shell

5 Make a visit

11 Gave a meal to

14 Stench

15 Cyclops feature

16 Direction opposite WSW

17 Fortune’s partner

18 Alternative strategy, or a hint to the word whose letters progress in reverse through 18-, 23-, 36-, 49- and 59-Across

20 Home body?

21 Name hidden in “white rice”

22 Goals

23 “The Tell-Tale Heart” writer

28 Houston slugger

30 Years and years and years

31 Goof

32 “This ride is fun!”

33 Field that includes farmland?

36 Not too happy

42 Bamboo ___ (edible sprouts)

43 Practice boxing

44 Soak (up)

47 Letters acknowledging a debt

48 Personal journal

49 Where people wait to get on board

54 Take home, as a salary

55 Fuzzy kind of rug

56 Opposite of subtract

59 Like some meatless diets

63 Board game with a miniature candlestick

64 2021 M. Night Shyamalan thriller in which people age suddenly

65 “Present!”

66 Skeleton part 67 12/31: Abbr.

68 Went offstage 69 Orchid support

DOWN

1 Miso soup cube

2 Lambert who sings with Queen

3 Enters a tournament

4 Quarry mineral

5 Hooded snake

6 Warning sign in a TV studio

7 Holy city in Saudi Arabia

8 Mousy response?

9 College sponsored by

the LDS Church

10 “You got it!”

11 Name of Spain’s current king

12 Infatuate

13 Like pound cake, visa-vis sponge cake

19 Ovenware vessel

21 Freudian concept

24 Frock

25 By ___ and bounds 26 Lounge around

27 Initial poker bet

28 Leather punch

29 Maroon 5’s “___ Will Be Loved”

33 French variant of “Ralph”

34 Sinus doc

35 Name that anagrams to “Syria”

37 Like a beanpole 38 Hula-___

39 Tony-winning Arthurian musical

40 Bandaged body part in a van Gogh self-portrait

41 Not wet

44 Trample

45 By mouth

46 “Don’t rain on my ___!”

48 Snoopy, e.g.

50 Holiday ___ Express

51 Positive attribute

52 When repeated, soothing words

53 Stoned

57 2021 sci-fi epic

starring Zendaya

58 Judge to be

60 Score such as 7-7

61 Stunt cyclist’s sport, briefly

62 Type of tuna

63 “Big Brother” network