UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Gather together

6 That guy’s

9 Chick’s call

14 Ceiling

15 Promising answer?

16 Medium for FDR’s fireside chats

17 Colorful and healthy dessert

19 Eat away at

20 Psychic’s “gift”

21 Letters that bookend “literal”

22 Ones place?

23 Take off and get hitched

25 Web destination

26 Conscious and intentional recall of information

31 Low voice in opera

34 Siestas

35 Feathery accessory

36 “Law & Order: SVU” actor

37 Hot under the collar

39 Wander aimlessly

40 Brewer’s product

41 1926 work by Langston Hughes

42 Requirements

43 Gatherings for heads of state

47 October birthstone

48 Like a chimney sweep’s uniform

50 Pandemonium

53 Pickle container

54 ___ Speedwagon

56 Ridges on a guitar’s neck

57 “I’m all ears!” ... or a tip for entering 17-, 26- or 43-Across

60 Change for a ten

61 PSAs and such

62 Minute amounts

63 Tea accompaniment

64 Nat ___ Wild

65 Intelligent

DOWN

1 ’80s sitcom character from Melmac

2 Boggy ground

3 Entertain

4 Least complicated

5 Sault ___ Marie

6 Jewish group on campus

7 The ___ of March

8 Tempeh base

9 Makes

10 Manhattan neighborhood that had a renaissance

11 K-pop artist, to fans

12 Carnival attraction

13 Wordsmith like Wordsworth

18 Johnny who voiced Rango

22 “Diary of a ___ Kid”

24 Kitchenware brand

25 Simba’s uncle

27 Gold bar

28 English horn’s relative

29 Street

30 Candied orange veggies

31 Reporter’s slant

32 Org. that defends rights

33 Come off as

37 First-string athletes

38 French name that anagrams to “Leon”

39 Where to go?

41 Deadlock

42 Oxfam or Greenpeace, for short

44 Like lava

45 End of a parent’s non-explanation

46 Sushi wrapper

49 Gossipy person

50 Longtime buds

51 “South Park” boy

52 New-wave band with energy dome hats

53 Lucky green stone in Chinese culture

55 Politician Ilhan

57 Streamer’s concern

58 “’___ the season ...”

59 Founded: Abbr.