UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Answered a wedding invitation, say
6 “Are you kidding?”
10 Guesstimate words
14 Space Invaders console
15 Greeting in Guadalajara
16 Fill, as a moving truck
17 Makes sharper or flatter
18 “NFL Live” channel
19 Sandy desert formation
20 Deep emotions that may be tugged at (In this answer, note letters 2-8)
23 Leaves abruptly, with “out”
24 Felt sorry about
25 Discontinue
26 Place for a hero
29 Long-standing foe (... letters 4-9)
32 Bird in a parliament 33 Eras
34 “Boy!”
35 Ancient character
36 Some hosp. employees
37 Puts on clothes (... letters 2-8)
41 Father figures?
43 Made less taxing
44 Ladder component
45 Gobbles (down)
47 Go in a new direction, or a hint to each of this puzzle’s scrambled meal parts
50 Some bikes or pigs
51 Lemony, maybe
52 Piles
56 Source of a soothing gel
57 Doing nothing
58 More strange
59 Ivy in Philly
60 Loch ___
61 Old Russian royals
DOWN
1 Snitch
2 “Rugrats” dad
3 Soccer parent’s transport
4 Warms up, as the oven
5 Epidemiologist’s concern
6 Invitation word before a venue name
7 Party throwers
8 The Matterhorn’s range
9 A toddler may throw one
10 Throwbacks on the radio
11 Kicks delivered with wide swings
12 Blabbed to the authorities
13 “To a ...” poems
21 Taiwanese tech giant
22 July birthstone
23 2016 live-action Disney movie whose title character is named Elliot
25 Aetna competitor
26 Email command
27 Totally dominated
28 Made a case in court
29 Shakespeare, for one
30 Defib experts
31 “Industry Baby” rapper Lil ___ X
35 Convenient ways to stay up-to-date with websites
37 Instrument heard at the end of “Bohemian Rhapsody”
38 Enters with caution 39 Bring up, as a child
40 Eavesdropping distance
42 ___ burner (lab item)
45 All ___ Day (November 2 observance)
46 Preserves in salt, perhaps
47 Bloke
48 You can dig it!
49 Programmer’s creation
53 Programmer Lovelace
54 For each
55 AARP members: Abbr.