The Boston Globe

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- SECRET LANGUAGE BY RACHEL SIMON | EDITED BY DAVID STEINBERG

ACROSS

1 Record-breaking

Taylor Swift tour

5 Bread producers?

9 Wasn’t serious

14 Kunis of “Family Guy”

15 “That was close!”

16 Give one’s take

17 Widely admired person

18 Senate staffer

19 Bravo’s “___ Deck”

20 Gary Larson comic with cows (In this answer, note letters 4-8)

23 Prone to prying

24 Get ___ of (discard)

25 Person in People, for short

27 Former NBA star Odom

30 Vegetable-based cooking staple

(... letters 5-7)

34 “Sign me up!”

35 Miss, in a barn dance

36 Sparrow or Hook

37 ___-Manuel Miranda

38 + or - particle

39 Ticketmast­er charge

40 Org. at JFK or LAX

41 Journey to the summit

43 TikTok offering, for short

44 Do some kitchen prep

45 Steve Carell had his waxed in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” (... letters 5-8)

47 Some COVID-19 protection­s

48 Slender openings

49 “You’ve Got Mail” co.

50 Stunned state

53 Certain facial indentatio­n (... letters 2-6)

58 In tow

60 Physics particle

61 University west of Duke

62 React to a painfully bad pun

63 “Me neither,” formally

64 Email out

65 In one’s birthday suit

66 “Curses!”

67 Graffiti signatures

DOWN

1 Give off

2 Like the 1%

3 Lotion additive

4 Nonlocal nickname for Golden Gate Park’s city

5 Oscar or Tony

6 Not that

7 Type of insurance

8 Greta Thunberg’s country

9 Word after “nose” or “bank”

10 Where free drinks are served

11 Traffic unit?

12 Mireille of “The Killing”

13 Like just-moisturize­d skin

21 Thin MacBook option

22 Skipped the wedding

26 “Night” author Wiesel

27 Pale purple flower

28 Some buggy users

29 Cut into tiny pieces

30 Tuna container

31 Vows

32 “There, there”

33 Bounds’ partners

35 “American ___” (1930 painting)

38 Part of IHOP: Abbr.

39 Many a Christmas tree

42 Gist

43 One dropping by

44 Most serene

46 Within reach

47 Miss Piggy’s pronoun

49 Let on or let in

50 Daybreak

51 Shawkat of “Search Party”

52 Fall asleep, with “out”

54 Filmmaker Ephron

55 “Don’t go,” for example

56 Like some sleeves

57 Finales

59 HS diploma alternativ­e

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