UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Moment, for short

4 Low-pH substance

8 They fill a cornfield

14 Texter’s “I’ll get there around ...”

15 Mystical symbol

16 Sonia Sotomayor or Sofia Vergara, for instance

17 Zuck’s wish after a wild year?

19 “Me? Never!”

20 Coast down a snowy hill

21 What we orbit

22 “Baywatch” star Anderson

23 Get ___ (punny name for a book club)

25 Pigmented liquids

27 Without much attention

28 Approach to eating mints?

32 Such that you might

33 Funerary vase

34 Pigmented liquid

37 Reactions to something adorable

38 Den fixtures

40 Zing

41 Lamb’s dad

42 Name that’s a facial feature backward

43 MGM lion

44 High-pH substance

46 Nativity prop at a Christkindlmarkt?

49 Prominent Swedish group ... or a structural hint to 17-, 28-, 46- or

62-Across

52 Alpha follower

53 Desired answer to a proposal

54 Lightning’s state of matter

56 Lie like a ___

58 James sampled in Avicii’s “Levels”

61 Whole Foods’ Texas home

62 Neckwear worn on Hawaii’s bits of land?

64 Passed along, verbally

65 Look to be

66 Single-stranded molecule

67 What fashion forecasters predict

68 Philosopher Immanuel

69 Month after Aug.

DOWN

1 Stand-up routines 2 And other authors: Abbr.

3 thisWritingStyle

4 Hand holder?

5 Actors’ signals

6 TurboTax’s company

7 Empath Troi

8 Air current from a propeller

9 “Yay me!”

10 Category of physics

for Niels Bohr

11 Like notebook paper

12 Hillock

13 Indonesian dish with skewers

18 Revises

24 Tell the teacher, say

26 Packaged serving of coffee

28 Russian leader, once

29 State crossed in an annual bike ride

30 They don’t perform their own songs

31 Active during a game

34 Hot rods

35 Bulldogs’ Ivy

36 Qatari leader

39 Certain people

45 Prepare to propose

46 “Beauty and the Beast” villain

47 In danger

48 Morning sickness, e.g.

49 In pieces

50 Like less cloudy skies 51 Make makeshift

stitches

55 Not severe

57 Narrow valley

59 It pokes a bit of food

60 “Quickly!”

63 Ambulance figure:

Abbr.