The Boston Globe

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- GIVE ME A BREAK! BY DAVID P. WILLIAMS | EDITED BY DAVID STEINBERG

ACROSS

1 “Not again!”

5 Island where calflength pants became popular

10 Woofer output

14 Oscar winner Sorvino

15 Building block of math

16 Desire to scratch

17 Revise

18 ___ sense (ESP)

19 Delight

20 Unbeatable foe

22 Certain spouse

24 Rehearsal

25 Gets more mileage out of

26 *Caesar’s nervous twitch, say?

30 What a tree casts

33 Fuss

34 It may have a wheel

on its heel

38 Liver or lung part

39 “Coming soon” ad

41 Do awesomely

42 Australian bird

43 Movie slogan

45 Tool that’s swung

46 Cubby hole?

47 Gets one’s bearings

48 Auction action

49 It holds a lot of water

51 Org. that may spot an unintended secret message in this puzzle

52 School support grp.

54 Like a moth to the ___

56 Knee band, briefly

57 They become empty when children leave

60 Moon goddess

61 Symbols indicating musical pitches

63 A Slinky may “walk down” one

64 Curved trajectori­es

65 Like a green air freshener’s smell, perhaps

66 Cook, as a tuna steak

67 Golf pegs

68 Gave stars to

69 Group in uniforms

DOWN

1 Revise

2 One saddled up

3 Covered with soot

4 Bitter drink?

5 Slots’ spot

6 Revolution­ary line?

7 Photos

8 Kind of IRA

9 Response to a low blow, perhaps

10 Serious scratch?

11 The weight of the world is on his shoulders

12 Part of an act

13 Leaves fur everywhere

21 Certain

23 Dos y dos y dos

27 Reader’s notes

28 *Pineapple perfume?

29 It’s a small price to pay

30 Hillside ride

31 Common GPS destinatio­n

32 *Twerking?

35 *Artificial­ly grown fall flower?

36 Vehicle that’s hailed

37 Green-___ monster

39 Golf hole number

40 Blue Jays’ and Maple Leafs’ neck of the woods: Abbr. 43 Thick book

44 Channel showing many plays?

50 Stockpile

53 Actress Thompson of “Sorry To Bother You”

54 Word emphasizin­g an amount of time

55 Worm on a line, e.g.

58 Group in uniforms

59 Light on one’s feet

61 EMT’s skill

62 ___ Barrett (original Pink Floyd frontman)

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