UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 It’s bound to happen

5 Type of vinegar or liquor

9 Add, as a signature or stamp

14 Word said with a sigh

15 Site originally named AuctionWeb

16 Far from worldly

17 Bubbly mixer 18 Weather measure, briefly

19 Readied, like a trumpet

20 Who cares what you think?

23 Japanese honorific

24 Unpopular fed. agency

25 Winter hanger

28 “Hooray,” at the World Cup

29 Tin containers in a homemade phone

31 Carpool lane inits.

32 Who can tell?

36 Supermodel Hadid

37 “Hijack” star Elba 38 Accessibility law inits.

39 Hedgehog in video games

40 “And so ...”

41 Who’s on first?

43 Auction unit

44 Has no choice

45 Chinese “path”

46 Rebounds, as sound

48 Seek clarification

49 Daddy turkey

52 Who am I kidding?

56 Delmonico alternative

58 Get along, slangily

59 Planets and peepers

60 Transmission repair chain

61 Open a bit

62 Chip brand with a Dill Pickle variety

63 Like an unimpaired driver

64 Lo-cal, on a label

65 Nonbinary pronoun

DOWN

1 They’re not wrong

2 ___ Bowl (Honolulu football game)

3 Eagle’s claw

4 Jacob’s brother

5 “I’m with you both!”

6 Helps criminally

7 Genie’s home

8 This clue haS one

9 Tomfoolery

10 ___ ouchie (slang for a COVID vaccine)

11 Holiday dishes?

12 “___ been there”

13 Crossed (out)

21 Lionfish “lungs”

22 Queue, in the U.S.

26 Valid reasoning

27 Throw out of an apartment

28 Singer Redding

29 Certain Annapolis student

30 Apollo 12 astronaut Bean

32 Queen, duchess or countess

33 For a specific purpose, as a committee

34 Blunt statement of 1-Down

35 Maple tree inserts

36 Type of dancer or boot

39 Charmer’s reptile

41 Throw out of office

42 “The food arrived!” 44 Falling star

47 ___ : prevention :: pound : cure

48 Chance to hit a baseball

49 Bat mitzvah text

50 “Sounds good, talk to you later”

51 Littered with clothes, say

53 Velodrome track’s shape

54 Water brand from an island country

55 Sudden shock

56 Profs’ helpers

57 Chinese steamed bun