UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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