UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Iowa State’s city
5 Total jerk
8 Catherine of “Home Alone”
13 Hamlet, by nationality
14 Not slack
16 ___ out (allots)
17 Creative community (In this answer, anagram letters 2-8)
19 They’re owed
20 Kinda
21 Large coffee vessel
23 Milk source for manchego cheese
24 Low digit
25 Not spill the beans, say (... letters 3-8)
30 Genetic messenger
31 Type of resort
32 Boxes for oranges
33 Italian wine region
35 Some are scrambled
38 Annoying buzzer
39 Mexican foods that may be topped with a slaw (... letters 1-5)
42 “Er ... I’ll pass”
44 Part of a campus visit
45 Leave out
49 Low tie score
51 Filming device, for short
53 Pass with flying colors
54 Despised rival (... letters 4-8)
57 Q’s point value in Scrabble
58 German cry
59 “Baby Cobra” comedian Wong
60 Threesome
62 Kind of eel
65 Musical movement? ... or a theme hint
68 Big concert venue
69 Look over carefully or hastily
70 ___-reviewed (like scholarly publications)
71 Tiptoe, say
72 Many, many years
73 Model/blogger Holliday
DOWN
1 2019 film whose title means “to the stars” in Latin
2 Leaves on an island
3 Beg
4 Religious branch
5 Georgia’s capital: Abbr.
6 ___ Paulo
7 Dawn
8 Peculiar
9 Garden tool
10 Canadian neighbor of Montana
11 Share with your Twitter followers
12 They’re worth something!
15 Banks of fashion
18 Acorn producers
22 Situation Room grp.
26 Barely manages, with “out”
27 Black billiards ball’s number
28 “Thus ...”
29 Child’s words to a doubter
34 “Otherwise ...”
36 Classic Pontiac
37 Pizza layer over the crust
40 Lionel’s middle name?
41 Do some last-minute studying
42 Horned beast of fantasy
43 “I agree with you two!”
46 Afternoon performance
47 Cold periods
48 Chicken strips
49 First family from 2009-’17
50 Stretch of history
52 Fictitious tale
55 Antlered beasts
56 Sister’s daughter
61 Captivated
63 Political strategist Navarro
64 Tibetan pack animal
66 Ming of NBA fame
67 Anderson Cooper’s channel