UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Transmission chain?

6 Yoga pad

9 Book of maps

14 Run, as a meeting

15 Ginger ___

16 Steamy room

17 Something especially attractive?

20 “___ of the Needle” (thriller novel)

21 “Now you’d better watch out!”

22 Wonderment

23 Prefix similar to equi

24 Crash sound in comics

26 Singer Aimee

29 Works hard

33 Fisher of “Wolf Like Me”

37 Vicinity

38 ___ noir (grape variety)

39 Storage building

40 Insta postings

41 Yellow-green shade

42 “Ditto”

43 Michigan or Erie

44 Law and ___

45 Per item

46 Channel showing games

47 Cheery tunes

48 Copper-plated coin

49 Sort of: Suffix

51 Earth: Prefix

52 Pair of rappers, say

53 Enter en masse

56 “___ Madness” (classic anti-drug film)

59 Syst. of hand signals

60 What gets stuck in locks?

64 NBA great Ming

65 Lion in the sky

66 Assign to a position

67 Globe

68 Kitten call

69 Hard-boiled Chinese snacks

70 Put in service

DOWN

1 Hurt everywhere

2 Sailor’s “Hey!”

3 Female horse

4 Prefix for “gender”

5 Cookies with a Super Mario variety

6 Half a Hawaiian fish

7 Scads

8 Summer tops

9 Cobra pose or corpse pose

10 Identify on Facebook

11 Moon goddess

12 Freshly

13 Completely fill

18 Played billiards

19 Mafia members

23 From one perspective

25 What an actor shouldn’t do

26 Source of syrup

27 Opera solos 28 Airline passenger’s prop

30 Drilling structure

31 Sitting at a red light, maybe

32 “It’d be my pleasure!”

34 2017 Ed Sheeran hit ... and a phonetic hint to 17-Across, 60-Across, 28-Down and the center of this puzzle’s grid

35 Dish soap scent

36 Very skillful

50 Drummer’s cymbal pair

52 Auto dings

53 Part of the hand

54 “Oh, OK!” 55 Scruff

56 “Does that ___ a bell?”

57 Organs with drums

58 It’s worn after a bath

61 Hoppy brew, for short

62 Beluga eggs 63 Swine