UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Brother of Cain 5 Sandwich man? 9 Shakespeare’s river 13 Long tale

14 Win all the games 16 Copenhagen citizen 17 Figurehead’s place

on a ship 18 Japanese comics

style

19 Actress Thompson

or Watson

20 What one might say if pennies started being made of only zinc?

23 Bit of information 26 Change states, in a

way

27 Look at an

antiseptic?

31 Pub game

35 Shelter with a flap 36 Egg cells 37 Captured back 38 Long-eared beast 39 Question about the availability of a gas for signs?

41 Kimono closer 42 Treasure containers 44 Winter hrs. in

Chicago

45 “This is my cue” 46 “___ manana!” 47 Diamonds from the

ocean, say?

49 49, for a square of

side length 7 51 Substantial

52 One- or two-letter part of a periodic table entry, and a hint to the starts of 20-, 27-, 39- and 47-Across

58 iPhone assistant 59 “Rumor is ...” 60 Maker of Prime Cuts

dog food

64 Typical SAT taker 65 Crystal-lined rock 66 Adam’s apple spot 67 “Insecure” star Rae 68 She ___ (man cave

relative)

69 Insult

DOWN

1 Cleo’s killer

2 Place to order a beer 3 It may need

massaging

4 Court case

5 Name hidden in

“she loves me not” 6 Out of town

7 City northeast of

Lake Tahoe

8 Pea or bean

9 Skilled in 10 Improvise jazzily 11 “My treat”

12 Close at hand 15 Walk while worried 21 Angsty music genre 22 Ancient

23 Tear off

24 Celebrity cook Curry 25 Present and future 28 Dresses in

29 College such as

Brown 30 “Eraserhead” star

Jack

32 One charges for

housecleaning 33 Additionally

34 Thin

37 College military org. 39 Pong maker 40 Spanish for “that” 43 Marathoner’s legs? 45 The Emerald Isle 47 Beauty pageant

wraps

48 “Yo te ___” 50 Vaper’s device 52 Spumante source 53 Even scores 54 Mine finds 55 Michelle of “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

56 Earned

57 Born’s partner 61 Island chain? 62 Dell products 63 Signs off on