UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Word before “chocolate” or “matter”

5 Give a “whap!”

9 Certain Chopin piece

14 “Superfood” berry

15 Like, forever

16 Stared in disbelief

17 Young child

19 Cartoon character originally named Dippy Dawg

20 Suffix with “Gator”

21 Bit of land in the ocean

22 Offerings from Jeni’s or Ben & Jerry’s

23 President Barbie portrayer

25 Is unwell

27 Garden gnome or plastic flamingo

32 Drift, as a scent

35 Glowing gas

36 Ninja Turtle with a blue bandanna, for short

37 Log splitter: Var.

38 Skill that’s rare these days ... or, parsed differently, a hint to 17-, 27-, 45- and 61-Across

41 Gray Catan resource

42 “___ Be There for You” (song)

43 “Tell Mama” singer James

44 Draws to a close

45 Tool similar to a paper knife

50 “Penciled” facial feature

51 “Please locate the ___ exit”

55 Asian capital in the

Red River Delta

58 Tiny complaints

59 Chinese bun

60 Lacking company

61 “Time for bed!”

63 Just adores

64 Pinnacle

65 Part of YOLO

66 Celebratory meal

67 “Grizzly” animal

68 Tournament exemptions

DOWN

1 ___ Lama

2 Orange juice and soda, chemically

3 Gives a PG-13 to, say

4 DIY set

5 Playground plank

6 Like some sweaters

7 Diarist Frank

8 Mao ___-tung

9 Moussaka ingredient

10 Philosophy of the Way

11 Savvy about

12 Nimble

13 Ice cream brand

18 Turkish currency

24 ___ text (image description that a screen reader might read)

25 198,120 square miles, for Thailand

26 “Are you ___ out?”

28 Ready to pour

29 College in Barcelona?

30 Stereotypical D&D fan

31 Digits in sneakers

32 Bawl

33 Wheelbarrow bar

34 ___-tip pen

38 Most wary

39 Other, in Spain

40 Put away

44 Write “missteak,” say

46 Certain small steaks

47 Total head-scratcher

48 Lead-in to “lands” or “world”

49 Ann Arbor-to-Detroit direction

52 Black piano key material

53 Ponzu or pesto

54 “Like, absolutely!”

55 Four, for eight

56 ___ vera (plant with edible gel)

57 Briefly bright star

58 “That’s great!”

61 Place with test tubes

62 Bawl