UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Strategy
5 Does some basic math
9 Gothic church topper
14 Ambience
15 Ark architect
16 Sudden fright
17 McDonald’s window (Note the last 2 letters of this answer + the first 4 of 19-Across)
19 Jargon
20 “Bye!”
21 Trojan tale
23 Long sandwich
25 Sings jazz without lyrics
28 Wished, as a farewell (... last 2 letters of this answer + the first 4 of 31-Across)
31 Gave the willies
36 Old Italian currency
37 In style
38 Pen brand
39 Like a spoken exam
40 Drinks from a fountain?
42 Lavish love (on)
43 Nail polish maker
44 Laura of “Jurassic World Dominion”
45 Groovy
46 Opera pioneer Claudio (... last 5 letters of this answer + the first 2 of 50-Across)
50 Corner key on a PC
51 “Baloney!”
52 Albeit, briefly
54 Written compositions
58 “Gotcha,” to a beatnik
62 With
65-Across, some boxing results ... and a theme hint
65 See 62-Across
67 Name that anagrams to “Ellis”
68 Hardly at all
69 Camp beds
70 Busybody
71 Ferret’s relative
72 Short commercial
DOWN
1 Cricket batters’ protective gear
2 Tempt
3 “Voyage to India” singer India.___
4 Elite fighter
5 Colonial insect
6 Where Qatar Airways is based
7 Have the nerve
8 Steer clear of
9 Join, as film
10 Moneymaker for Google
11 Roadside lodging
12 Oil-drilling apparatus
13 “Green” prefix
18 ___ de toilette
22 Telepathy, e.g.
24 Confidentially loops in
26 In addition
27 Courting sort
28 What aptly bookends “blossom”
29 Heat without oil at a movie theater, say
30 Saps of energy
32 ___ Island (smallest state)
33 Downy duck
34 Greeting from Hallmark.com
35 Immune system component
41 Bad mood
42 “Wonder Woman” publisher
47 Believer in a creator
48 Latino Walk of Fame’s SoCal neighborhood
49 Some are Beetles
53 That guy’s
55 Namesake of an inedible apple?
56 Himalayan legend
57 All-in-one printer option
59 Basketball target
60 Enthusiastic about
61 (Yo, listen up!)
62 Foxlike
63 Circular type of chart
64 Novelist Deighton
66 Texter’s “No idea”