UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Holiday in 48-Down
4 Get in the game
8 ___ and cheese
11 Actress Remini
12 Classic German camera
13 Campfire residue
14 ’80s lower-body workout video (Theme hint: Look at the starts of this answer and the one below it)
16 Long or Peeples
17 Tool that may be retractable
18 Service station offering
19 Tallies
20 Advanced degree?
21 Man-to-man alternative
22 “___ be my pleasure!”
24 Tapenade ingredient
28 Elton John’s instrument
31 Seismic source
35 Large coffee vessel
36 “Notorious” former justice, briefly
38 Documentarian Burns
39 Wine and dine, say
40 Hammer out a deal 43 Steakhouse option
45 Italian luxury fashion house
46 “Aye aye, ___!”
47 “Chopped” contestant
50 Hush-hush grp.
52 Shuffle or Nano
56 Jet ___
57 Further explanation in an article (... the ends of this answer and the one below it)
61 Even a bit of
62 Elongated sponge cake biscuits
63 Tool dipped in a bucket
64 Highly capable 65 Prefix with “pilot” or “correct”
66 Western Pa. airport code
67 Zap with a beam 68 Rental car extra, briefly
DOWN
1 Bedtime for some
2 Enters slowly
3 Name hidden in “not home”
4 Place to purchase a parakeet
5 “In ___ of gifts ...”
6 Big name in laptops
7 New Haven Ivy
8 Salsa fruit
9 Japanese, say
10 Wild-goose ___
11 Island cookout
12 36-Across took it
14 “Butter” K-pop band
15 Provide (for oneself)
21 Form of Buddhism
23 Linzer ___ (Austrian dessert)
25 Facebook action
26 Diamonds, in slang
27 Starbucks size, or Italian for “twenty”
28 It may not be intended
29 Angry state
30 Oscar-winning director Lee
31 “Holy smokes!”
32 “Terrible” age
33 Many, many moons
34 Salmon eggs
37 TSA checkpoint container
41 On vacation
42 Antique photograph
44 Raise
46 Indian wrap
47 Gripping gadget
48 Vietnamese capital
49 Tut’s territory
51 Cottony
53 Angelou and Plath
54 Other, in Oaxaca
55 ___ Moines
57 New York-to-Tel Aviv option
58 Pops, to a toddler
59 “Beware the ___ of March!”
60 Unexpected glitch