UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Unimportant 6 Secluded valley 10 Top spot

14 Without equal 15 Latest craze

16 “Go ahead!”

17 How you can spell

“anger”?

19 OR workers

20 Alt. spelling

21 “As I was going to

St. ___ ...”

22 Like many older

siblings

23 Modernize

25 Coal container 26 What you can spell

“cellar” with? 32 Tangle

34 Sensitive subject for

some

35 Nickname hidden in

“two-piece”

36 Horse food 37 Instruction for

spelling “race?” 41 Hoppy brew,

briefly

42 Keats poems

44 Cheer in Chihuahua 45 Workout spots for

some

47 What you can spell

“cheeps” with? 51 Japanese currency 52 Perplexes

54 Athlete’s best effort 57 Hot spot for a pot 59 Origami, for one 60 Spelling unrelated to

this puzzle’s theme

61 How you can spell

“aboard”?

64 “Put your wallet

away”

65 Subway route 66 Stinks

67 Difficult situation 68 KGB’s place 69 Beginning phase

DOWN

1 Leader of China’s

Cultural Revolution 2 Fond message on a

candy heart 3 “Never!”

4 Like a product that’s

coming

5 NFL whistle blower 6 Rocky driveway

surface

7 Narrow street 8 Baker’s dozen? 9 Born, in bios 10 Expand, as a house 11 Whispers sweet

nothings

12 They might be

dropped onstage 13 Site with homemade

candles

18 “Lovely” Beatles

girl

22 What may be

boring?

24 Org. fighting

censorship

25 “Cold one” 27 Shoestrings

28 NYC airport 29 Aeneas and

Odysseus

30 Talk show host Kelly 31 Wet septet 32 Boutique

33 Zilch

38 Any day now

39 One with a pole

position?

40 Watched closely 43 Obstructs

46 British sports car 48 Word before “red” or

“the light”

49 Golfer Arnold who

had a fan army 50 “Giant” author

Ferber

53 Share in a business 54 Elemental particle

55 Eaten up 56 Elbows’ limbs 57 Kendall Jenner’s

mom

58 Charged particles 61 Kind of shot given

annually

62 Dude

63 It starts in Mar.