UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 In dribs and ___

6 Slugger’s stat

9 Read digitally

13 Stand on three legs?

14 Connery portrayed in “Celebrity Jeopardy!” on “SNL”

15 ___ de gallo

16 Chip that may top chili

17 Rosemary, for one

18 From the top

19 *Saying under a senior’s headshot

22 “Shoot!”

23 Enjoy a bit of a sea breeze?

24 No amateur

27 Differ

30 DVR button

33 Singer Nick of 98 Degrees

35 Second person?

36 *End a relationship

38 Majestic

40 Rowdy crowd

41 Like faces around a campfire

42 *Hotel amenity for a wedding party

45 Bard’s “before”

46 Capital of Eritrea

47 Org. concerned with baggage

48 Manual reader

49 Jeans brand

50 Friendly introduction?

52 Flash in the ___

54 Amiss, or a hint to the ends of the starred clues’ answers

61 Voice above tenor

63 State where the Jazz play

64 TWA competitor

65 Save, as items that spark joy

66 Envelope-pushing

67 Ball girl?

68 Tacks on

69 Hundred Acre Wood marsupial

70 Leaps on the ice

DOWN

1 Go against, as expectations

2 Steak specification

3 Home of Petra and Angkor Wat

4 Stab in the back

5 Untidy people

6 Stink to high heaven

7 Big name in root beer

8 There from the start

9 Small quarrel

10 Film buffs

11 Card worth one point in gin rummy

12 As we speak

14 “Dexter” channel, for short

20 Cajun vegetable

21 Opposite of transparent

25 Stop working

26 Shellfish in a po’boy, perhaps

27 Related to words

28 Strongly opposed (to)

29 Highly systematic

31 Street-lining trees

32 Social influence

34 Ice cream holder

36 Red Bordeaux wine

37 Wetlands wader

39 Name hidden in “salsa dancer”

43 Wood finish

44 Scotch product

48 Like clothing that’s for everyone

51 Perform better than

53 Dutch Caribbean island

55 “My bad!”

56 “Aladdin” or “Othello” character

57 “Your” of yore

58 8 on the Beaufort scale

59 Sledding spot

60 ___ leches cake

61 Letters between two names

62 Chaired