UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 “Stop talking!”

6 Civil Rights ___

(1954-’68)

9 Hourly payments 14 Love, in Italian 15 Tex-___

16 “Attack on Titan”

genre

17^

18 Curling surface 19 Cosmic fate 20 Robotic monster of Japanese kaiju movies (Note the first 2 letters in this answer)

23 Gymnast Strug 24 Peace activist Yoko 25 Masks, fins, etc.

(First 4 letters) 31 Glimmered

32 Office number: Abbr. 33 Ivy in Connecticut 34 Tree seen in “rye

whiskey”

35 Someone who might

take paternity leave 38 Scolding sound

40 ___ Z (Zoomers) 41 Cold, in Spanish 43 “what i think is ...” 45 Upright

47 City north of the

Bronx (First 3 letters) 51 Cavs, on a scoreboard 52 Paradises

53 Someone to bounce ideas off of ... or a phonetic hint to this puzzle’s theme 58 Musical speeds 59 Matching garment at many family reunions 60 Threesomes

62 “Am I having

deja vu?”

63 CBS forensic

franchise

64 This clue number’s

square root

65 “On it!”

66 QVC sister channel 67 “Breaks my heart”

DOWN

1 “Baywatch” actor

Efron

2 Muslim leader

3 Face mask target 4 “Sure looks like it” 5 Like a volleyball tied

to a pole

6 Political refugee 7 Flinches 8 Pink-slipped 9 Coming to 10A:B::C:D,e.g. 11 ___ Scout Cookies 12 “La La Land” actress

Stone

13 With 58-Down, Pacific Northwest airport

21 Genesis boat 22 Sectors

25 Woman admired for

courage

26 Like a lose-lose

situation

27 Addams family member with a child named What 28 Psyched up

29 Smart ___ 30 “Seasons of Love”

musical 31 “Sharknado” channel 36 Put on, as a show 37 Private Twitter chats 39 Theme-setting

opening speeches 42 Online dating site 44 Tao concept

46 “The Mandalorian”

actress Dawson 48 Pacific climate

pattern

49 Enter with caution 50 Metaphorical tangle

of lies 53 “Like a Dragon”

video game publisher 54 Middle Eastern

sultanate

55 Bug bite symptom 56 Semis

57 Qatar’s capital

58 See 13-Down 61 Norm: Abbr.