UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Give a standing O, say
5 Everglades critter
10 Waterproof cover
14 Rain cats and dogs
15 Line to the audience
16 “Uh-huh”
17 Was a passenger
18 Person stationed in front of a cabin
19 “I dare you!”
20 Divvying up fairly (In this answer, ignore letters 4-7)
23 Wrap in the kitchen
24 The color of money
25 Membership fees (... letters 3-7)
29 Flowed back
32 Miner concern?
33 State flower of New Mexico
37 Revolutionary period?
38 Ice sheets
40 Actor’s item
41 Corn unit
42 “Don’t ___ on it!” (... letters 2-5)
44 Usually high card
45 Outback automaker
47 Mr. Potato Head’s chest
49 Thankless sort (... letters 1-2)
53 At a great distance
56 Scroll in an ark
57 Voice below soprano
61 Wizard’s garb
62 Cara who sang “Flashdance... What a Feeling”
63 Crop circles, for one
64 Fairy-___ ending
65 Alpha’s opposite
66 Jot down
67 “Calvin and Hobbes” transport
68 In the buff
69 Sign for the superstitious
DOWN
1 EMT’s skill
2 Froot ___
3 McDonald of stage and screen
4 Buy in advance
5 Parent co. of Old Navy and Banana Republic
6 “Like that would ever happen!”
7 Part of a mosaic
8 Awful smell
9 Puts a new price label on
10 Follows the KonMari Method
11 In unison
12 Do a ruler’s job
13 Dog or goldfish
21 Praise
22 Nickname for a third-generation child
26 Hindu festival of colors
27 Cupid’s counterpart
28 Try to find
29 Potato features
30 Ken, to Barbie
31 Hurtful remark
34 Sea creature that pinches
35 Ernesto de la Cruz’s Pixar film
36 ___ predator (food chain topper)
38 What a plan might come to
39 Adjust for daylightsaving time
42 “Dude ...”
43 Tater ___
46 Felt the same
48 “Mm, uh-uh”
50 ___ Jeane Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe’s birth name)
51 Like spanakopita and dolmas
52 Stovetop/oven
53 Cursive and calligraphy are lost ones
54 Young horse
55 Willing partner?
58 Impend
59 ___ Modern (London gallery)
60 Covered wagon pullers