UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Ice cream serving 6 Recording device, for short
9 Geographic reference book
14 Broadway legend McDonald
15 “___ you awake?”
16 Under-the-table payment
17 Nonexistent meal, it’s said (In this answer, note the first 3 letters + the last 3)
19 Old-timey photo tone
20 Magazine bosses, for short
21 The “E” of HOMES
22 Tigers, wolves and such
23 ___-AFTRA
24 Stitches, as socks
26 Completed a revolution?
29 Grows up
33 “Don’t just stand ___!”
34 “Holy Toledo!” 36 Caramel-filled chocolate
37 Makes simpler
38 Lemon of “30 Rock”
39 Revolting sort?
40 Kimes of ESPN
41 Sand hill
42 Buddy, in Baja
43 HS senior’s suit
45 Tons and tons
47 ___ theory (field for Judith Butler)
49 Encouraging sort of talk
50 Show off
53 Bring home 55 Softball stat
58 ___ up (formed a queue)
59 Maker of infant carriers (... first 2 letters + last 2)
61 Key pressed after inputting a PIN
62 Painter’s option
63 Risking everything
64 Singer Aguilera’s nickname
65 Lead-in to “historic”
66 Actors play them
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1 Ruling at first base, maybe
2 “Squeaky” dairy product
3 Tribute poems
4 Catan resource
5 Rhyming beers
6 “Please?”
7 Curved
8 So-so
9 Not here
10 On which X marks the spot (... first 2 letters + last 2)
11 “Read my ___!”
12 Sort of
13 Blue areas on globes
18 Give a little push
22 Fastener in a folder
23 Actress known for playing “final girls” (... first 3 letters + last 3)
25 Knocks the socks off
26 Department leader
27 Binary question type
28 Extended album type
30 Bird with blue eggs
31 Mournful poem
32 One piece?
33 Short-term worker
35 Liquor in a French 75
39 Where you might order kaedama (extra noodles)
41 Two piece?
44 Toyota pickup, or an arctic plain
46 Grand Ole ___
48 Broadcast again
50 Make a muscle bulge
51 Dryer fluff
52 2016 Rihanna album
54 Partner of willing
55 One of up to three in a Yahtzee turn
56 Cheese that may be baked
57 Road trip stopovers
59 Catchy song
60 “Hustlers” star, for short