UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Tropical smoothie fruit
6 Tropical soup root
10 Stylish
14 1979 sci-fi horror film
15 Song at an opera house
16 IRA variety
17 Spiel (In this answer, unscramble letters 2-8)
19 Lorde’s birth name
20 “Choose the most relatable part of this picture” (... letters 2-5)
22 Maybelline’s Great Lash, for one
26 Piece to practice
27 Magnetic appeal
28 Mrs., in Munich
31 Small Tide product
32 Apt rhyme for “blob”
33 Chinese philosophy
35 Winter house material? (... letters 6-10)
39 Persuade forcefully
40 Sulk
43 Tear
46 Voluminous volume
47 Surfing, in a way
49 Image in a text
51 Bird symbolizing rebirth
52 Start bubbling, say (... letters 4-8)
56 Declare firmly
57 Gym playlist, or a theme hint
62 Almost-perfect score
63 “___ dokie!”
64 Bird known for dancing
65 Shade darker than aqua
66 Clever people
67 Twists in a hose
DOWN
1 “Live ___” (Taco Bell slogan)
2 Apple pie ___ mode
3 Zero, in soccer
4 “Imagine that!”
5 Safety system in a GM car
6 Biome in parts of Alaska
7 Likely to wear a beret, say
8 Puerto ___
9 Pearl Harbor’s island
10 Wave’s top
11 Go into hiding
12 “This is fine”
13 Rubbed the wrong way?
18 Remove the rind from
21 Practice sustainability
22 Short read?
23 100%
24 Tedious task
25 Like units of volume
28 Ridiculous comedy
29 Spa wear
30 ___ conditioner
33 Span of service
34 Tree whose leaf
symbolizes Canada
36 “Pick someone else!”
37 Prefix for -metry and -graphy
38 Totally exhaust
41 A third of 58-Down
42 State where San Jacinto Day is celebrated, briefly
43 Take back, as a statement
44 Mac-based video editor
45 One of the Claremont Colleges
47 Eight presidents’ home state
48 “Tried and failed”
50 Stone in a tiara
51 Jabs with a finger
53 “Hey! That hurts!”
54 DJ and producer Steve
55 One may call underwear “pants”
58 Three: Prefix
59 “Spider-___: Across the Spider-Verse”
60 Pen filler
61 Crosses (out)