UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Soothing stuff

5 Lose fur

9 Ocean’s highs and

lows

14 Soothing stuff 15 Second half of a spa

combo

16 Bring together 17 Doe’s mate

18 Place with many

agitators

20 The Ramones’ “I

Wanna Be ___” 22 Chivalrous fellow 23 Globe

24 Place to surf 25 Anatomical pouch 26 “That punch hurt!” 29 Prefix for the

budget-conscious 31 Home of the “Mona

Lisa”

33 Scrooge’s scoff 34 Band worn at a

pageant 37 Responses at church 38 Archer’s projectile 40 Universal remote

brand 41 Fortuneteller’s deck 42 Capital on the Nile 43 Enjoy a meal

45 You might walk all

over it

46 NFL team at Levi’s

Stadium, informally 48 Place for a plug that

can safely get wet 50 Sentence structure’s

school subj.

51 Frat party fixture 53 Word before

“mouth” or “foot” 54 Apply gingerly 57 Jackson 5 hairdo 58 Study of the ear 60 Minor request 64 Tennis great Lendl 65 Couldn’t help it 66 Jab

67 Note to employees 68 Provide with funding 69 “Frozen” queen 70 Coffee, tea or mead

DOWN

1 Opera singer with a

low voice

2 Make a change to 3 Like a structurally

important wall 4 Prefix meaning

“million”

5 Organs near

stomachs

6 Support for reading

in bed

7 End of a college

email address 8 Minor dents 9 Traitor

10 How some NFL

games end

11 Not too bright 12 Flight tracker stat 13 Band’s playlist 19 Word said during a

handshake

21 A pair 26 Repeatedly, or what can precede both parts of 3-, 6-, 9-, 36- or 39-Down 27 “... but we could do

something else” 28 Suffix with

“Oktober” 30 Laundry or dusting 32 Savory flavor 33 Thinker?

35 Poli ___ 36 Reference manuals 38 Benzoyl peroxide

target

39 Process for

completing tasks 44 Horn of Africa

nation

47 Feudal laborer 49 A long time ___ 52 Flip out 55 Team’s best effort 56 Already

57 Voice above tenor 59 Arm or leg

60 Elle, in English 61 End of a superhero’s

name, perhaps 62 Calculate a total 63 Loudness: Abbr.