UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Cockeyed

6 Definitely will

11 Rte. finder

14 Excel

15 Self-help book’s genre

16 50 Cent piece

17 Library’s policy forbidding book reservations?

19 She raised Cain

20 Even so

21 Absorbent fabric

22 Avarice

24 Old MacDonald’s refrain

25 Animals in a pride

26 Pals who need more room to stretch out at a sleepover?

30 Length x width, for a rectangle

31 Dance partner?

32 Annex

35 Digitizes, as a document

39 Dress up at a comic con

41 Roadwork gunk

42 Finds a function for

44 Name within “mesmerized”

45 True statement about a Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea?

50 Passe phone features

51 Destructive kind of wave

52 Food at a Japanese bar

53 Pans for gold, e.g.

54 Feverish, perhaps

57 Commercials

58 Malt shop’s claim to fame?

61 “Fancy that!”

62 Toffee bar brand

63 Where gladiators faced off

64 Complete jerk

65 Points at the dinner table?

66 Bakery or brewery supply

DOWN

1 Far from ruddy

2 One has a sole

3 Bagpiper’s wear

4 Wrap up

5 White terrier, informally

6 Omar who portrayed Doctor Zhivago

7 “How terrible!”

8 Out of whack

9 Wireless standard letters

10 Hotels and such

11 Spicy sauce made with tomatillos

12 Applies 41-Across

13 Didn’t dillydally

18 “Cold one”

23 Fishing pole

24 “A Visit From the Goon Squad” author Jennifer

25 Carson’s successor on “The Tonight Show”

26 Bringing up the rear

27 Aptly named boat in “Jaws”

28 Close calls

29 Paris 2024 grp.

33 Condemn to perdition

34 Turned red, say?

36 What floods into a glass house

37 Egyptian fertility goddess

38 Nintendo’s Super ___

40 Kind of grant for a student

43 Fill to excess

46 “How relaxing!”

47 Thirds of thirds

48 Bad day for Caesar

49 Walk down the runway

50 Bros

52 Story that takes hours to tell

53 Average, in statistics

54 Big furniture retailer

55 Contact, for one

56 Aspiring atty.’s exam

59 Big name in outdoor gear

60 Exist