UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Beaver’s creations 5 “Welcome” item 8 Pointed remark 12 Kilns and others 14 Alter ___

15 Notion

16 Cuddles and caresses 18 South American

mountain range 19 You’re reading one 20...---...

22 Mule deer relative 23 Taught

27 Backyard building 29 Inter Miami star Messi 30 ___ and aahed 32 Performed like Michelle Yeoh or Jessica Chastain 33 Simple’s partner 34 “Catcher interference”

callers

38 All their days might

be dog days 39 Streamer’s recording

device

41 Grain in an

“overnight” recipe 42 Wrath

43 Kinda

44 Sky blue

46 ___ effect (what determines the direction hurricanes turn)

48 “How the Other Half

Lives” muckraker Jacob 49 “That’s hilarious!”

over SMS

50 Boxer’s temporary

home 52 With 55-Across, becoming angry ... or a hint to the pairs of entries in rows 3, 5 and 10

55 See 52-Across 57 Barely manages, with

“out”

58 Pass that leads

directly to a basket 60 Compete (for) 61 Gratis

62 Lipton rival

63 Wrap up

64 Selects for a position 65 Like shiny photos 66 Podcast feed letters

DOWN

1 Physician, for short 2 Director DuVernay 3 Dead ___ tell no tales 4 Treats akin to shave ice 5 Brawl

6 It’s “just a number” 7 Cornhole throw 8 Bargain ___

9 Thrown in

10 Blooper ___

11 Soak up the sun 13 Failed to start a

singalong

17 Not sharp

18 Tennis legend Arthur 21 Ice Cube’s first name 23 ___ languages (Czech

and Ukrainian, for two) 24 Notable Roman

skeptic

25 Spicier

26 Has no faith in 28 www.umass.___ 31 Ocean predator with

a saddle patch 33 Danger

35 Examine with a

cursor

36 ___ for the course 37 Sault ___ Marie,

Mich.

39 Mozart’s first name 40 Primary source of

support

43 Before long

45 Metal in pennies 47 Colorful eye parts or

flowers

48 Peanut butter cup

brand

50 Makes a mitten, say 51 Tender pork cuts 52 Remaining 53 Vegetable with pentagonal cross sections

54 Ooze

55 ___ buco (veal dish) 56 Bulbs in many LCD TVs 59 French for “salt”