UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Pancake syrup flavor
6 Unfriendly mutt
9 In the style of, on
menus
12 Parcel out
13 Word after “Bay” or
“gray”
15 Ad ___ committee
16 Ruler, e.g.
19 Followed, as a tip
20 Rugged four-wheeler,
briefly
21 Muscles above the
beltline
23 Worry
24 Doritos company
26 August 1 births,
astrologically
28 Ancient
29 “The ___” (Discovery series about camper owners)
30 Signal strength
measure
31 Chauffeur-driven
sedan
33 Squeezing snake
34 Springboard
40 “Jeopardy! Masters”
network
41 Overflowing (with)
42 Hunk of a trunk
43 Bone of contention
46 Spare ___ (piece of
barbecue)
47 No easy task
48 Repertoire on a
resume
50 One gets hammered
52 Song that everyone’s
singing
53 Female sheep
54 Army enlistee
57 In other words ... or a hint to the ends of 16-, 24-, 34- and 48-Across
60 Gibbon or gorilla
61 “A ___ technicality!”
62 Find a new function
for
63 It ends on the first
Sunday of Nov.
64 Angler’s apparatus
65 Works at a keyboard
DOWN
1 Cry from a doll
2 Original Bon Jovi
bassist ___ John Such
3 Party line
4 They never win
5 Piano practice piece
6 Abel’s slayer
7 Ornamental vase
8 Take into
consideration
9 Bigeye tuna
10 Site
11 “Star Wars” admiral
who says, “It’s a trap!
14 Italian wine mecca
17 Wood deck concern
18 Cliche on shows
22 Part of CBS: Abbr.
24 “Hit the gas!”
25 This shape: 0
26 Pres. sworn in aboard
Air Force One
27 Water, en francais
28 “Gasp,” in a text
31 Defamed in writing
32 Business magazine
33 One to share deep
secrets with, informally
35 Harlem Renaissance
figure Robeson
36 Unimportant lie
37 Like Times Square at
night
38 Whisper
affectionately
39 It has a yolk
43 “Kinda”
44 YouTube button for
the impatient
45 Core exercises
46 Marijuana cigarette
47 Poitier who was the first Black man to win an Oscar
49 Skinny-dip, say
50 Neither rhyme ___
reason
51 Notify
54 Ranked competitor
55 “You and who ___?”
56 Certain whiskeys
58 Vietnamese New Year
59 To’s counterpart