UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Do some needlework,

maybe

4 Calf-length dress 8 Variety show under a

big top

14 Baby’s cry

15 Powerful Norse god 16 Greek goddess of

wisdom

17 It’s game night, and you’re on a roll! You started with Scrabble, but your opponents were ...

20 Don, as clothing 21 Small jazz group 22 Refusals

23 Thinly scattered 25 Sushi seaweed

27 ... then you played Twister, which left your opponents ... 33 ___ Lingus

35 Not wild

36 Number that’s odd, despite its last four letters

37 Family ___

39 Pals, to Londoners 42 Binary digit

43 Sporty Mazda 45 Zodiac crustacean 47 Tease

48 ... so you moved on to Catan, and made your opponents ... 52 ___ mater

53 One who might make a long story short

56 (Hello! I’m a dog!) 59 “Pink Friday Girls”

rapper Nicki 62 Sleeper’s sound

63 ... finally, you ended the night with Jenga, which left your opponents ... 66 Lotion brand

67 “Just joshing you!” 68 Pond carp 69 Bookworm

70 Head, in French 71 Nine-digit fig.

DOWN

1 Exchanges

2 Totally enjoy

3 “This is so nice!” 4 Lunar event near the

horizon

5 Names, informally 6 Compact ___

7 Deets

8 C in biology class? 9 “Success!”

10 Greek letter that

sounds like fish eggs 11 Large Hadron

Collider’s lab

12 Ctrl+Z

13 ’Tude

18 “Shark Tank” investor

Greiner

19 Hilton competitor 24 Cheese that’s made up? 26 American gospel singer Andrews, whose name anagrams to “zine” 28 “Kill Bill” star Thurman 29 Retailer with leashes

and collars

30 Orders more than

necessary, say 31 “Tootsie” actress Garr 32 Highfalutin sort 33 Dough dispensers 34 Shallowest Great

Lake

38 Jazzy James

40 Make a mistake 41 Small Business

Saturday event 44 “I’m not sharing with

you!”

46 Alarm clock location,

maybe

49 Key with one sharp 50 Large canine?

51 Trig function 54 Cookies in some

Blizzards

55 Cedar secretion

56 A ways away 57 Dance party

58 Pet’s peeve 60 Fighting

61 Word after “running”

or “inside”

64 Headed

65 Avocado discard