UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Barely perceptible

6 Like fake furs

10 Neighbor of Syria

14 Sedated

15 Farmland measure

16 Machu Picchu’s locale

17 Harriet Beecher ___

18 Machine bits

19 Cookie you can twist

20 With letters in three blocks and

22-Across, passive-aggressive quietness

22 See 20-Across

23 Offshoot

24 Sport with chops

27 One more

30 “Darn right it happened”

31 With letters in four blocks and

32-Across, “That’s too nice!

32 See 31-Across

33 Makes an oopsie

35 Charmin competitor

37 Still drying

41 With letters in four blocks and

43-Across, Hershey’s treat

43 See 41-Across

44 They may be casual or for business

47 Warmly welcome

51 “I need to know in advance!”

52 Fauna’s counterpart

53 Hardware store chain

54 Unexpected charge ... or a theme hint

58 Go higher

60 Mary ___ (weed) 61 What waiting for overdue results can be

62 Queen Latifah’s given first name

63 Word of woe

64 ___ a purpose

65 Schedule opening

66 Cheesy sandwich

67 Cards that beat deuces

DOWN

1 Commotion

2 Not pro3 Word after “teen” or

“American”

4 Most fresh

5 You can dig it!

6 One, two, three or six, for six

7 Squirrel’s snack

8 Impulse

9 Poison indicators, on bottles

10 NYSE debut

11 Like classic books, through time

12 Defensive comeback

13 Cited in a thesis, say

21 Fasten with string

24 Author Vonnegut

25 Limb missing from many a sculpture

26 Mouthpiece attachment

27 Yes vote

28 Neither’s partner

29 Couple’s word

30 Tennis unit

32 What “2” can mean, in texts 34 Security procedure

35 Like bad losers

36 Loops in via email

38 Atty.’s org.

39 ___ Tonight (’80s McDonald’s character)

40 Season opener?

42 That dude 44 Hugo and Tony, for two

45 Spa treatment that might involve a mask

46 Central California city

47 In position to inherit the throne, say

48 Fashionable, in the ’60s

49 Chicken piece 50 National park figure

52 Last

54 ___ and hearty

55 Fairway warning

56 A deadly sin

57 Snake ___ (lowest dice roll)

59 Fill up on

60 Traffic problem