UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Procedure done to “Stayin’ Alive”: Abbr.
4 Top ___ Entertainment
8 It’s phony-baloney
12 “Look what I found!”
13 Scraped knees and paper cuts, for example
15 Revolutionary car component?
16 Butter ___ (small pastry)
18 Finally lost one’s temper
19 A moral person will take the high one
20 Achieve greatness
23 Straightforward class
24 Set someone up to rap
28 Certain MLB players during the Steroid Era
30 Opera whose title anagrams to “coats”
31 That girl
32 Sticky situations
37 Thing
38 Express happiness
41 Ad writer’s muse?
43 Controversial kind of powder
44 Winter clock setting in NYC
47 Employ against
49 Like Everest, vis-a-vis Fuji
51 Start dancing
56 Two-finger message
57 Quickly photograph something 59 Univ. instructor
62 Angered
63 Poetic tributes
64 Wife of Jupiter
65 Prepare to propose
66 In-flight guess, for short
67 Person with a mystical gaze
68 Craft website
69 Single situp, say
DOWN
1 Calicos’ comfy cots
2 Ancient Egyptian ruler
3 Concern for the World Wildlife Fund
4 Qatari capital
5 Grammy, for instance
6 Like a highway with more lanes
7 Car insurance giant
8 Cook in the shell, as an egg
9 Kitchen gizmo brand
10 Chicken ___ king
11 Ticked, as a box
14 “Cut it out!”
17 “Rent” actor Diggs
21 It’s what you deserve
22 Sewer animal
25 Cosmetics icon whose first name appears in many crosswords
26 No-return service?
27 Scottish cap
29 Religious branch
33 Jamaican music
genre 34 Nickname that omits “vatore”
35 Corner key
36 X-rated reading material
39 Cheers on
40 Classic Windows
slogan
41 Baby lion 42 Sch. in Baton Rouge
45 Discharge, as hormones
46 Syrupy substance
48 Granny, to a Brit
50 “Morbius” star Jared
52 Word after “question” or “quotation” 53 State a viewpoint
54 ___ parking
55 Fencing blades
58 In an unoccupied manner
59 Comfy sleepwear
60 Regret
61 “The loneliest number”