Universal Crossword
ACROSS
1 Walk and
talk, e.g.?
6 Repeated
sound
10 Oval Office
VIP
14 Folding words in poker
15 One has
crusty heels 16 Long
sandwich
17 ___ Dame (Note the last 2 letters of this answer + ...)
18 Part of a model’s resume
(... the first 4 of this one) 20 Green
birthstone
22 Orchestra
tuners
23 Delete
24 “Here’s a tip
...” letters
25 “___ or that?” (Last 3 letters + ...) 28 British politician Rishi Sunak, e.g. (... first 4) 33 Healthy
34 Fly high
35 In-flight
guess: Abbr. 36 www.yale.___ 37 Word after “fruit” or “vampire”
40 Raises
41 Common
batteries
42 “True Life”
network
43 Skin care
brand 45 “Right away,
boss!”
46 Restaurant special in a bowl (Last 4 letters + ...) 50 Beyonce’s role in “The Lion King” (... first 3)
51 Deep sleep
letters
52 Lawn
ornament
54 Author
Larsson
57 They’re waged over drinks
59 “I don’t want to hear your excuses!” (Last 2 letters + ...) 61 “Schitt’s Creek” matriarch (... first 4)
64 ___ fide
65 “Sadly ...”
66 Goad
67 Like a pretentious painter
68 Lightbulb unit 69 “That outfit
is stunning!”
DOWN
1 Diesel of
“Fast X”
2 Mopey
music genre 3 Repetitive
way to learn 4 Kind of cat
or python
5 Direct, as a
car
6 West Texas
city
7 Insulated items at picnics 8 Taco shell
option
9 Frequently,
in poetry
10 Extreme fear 11 Move, in
Realtor lingo 12 Shallowest
Great Lake 13 Petting ___ (places for kids, in two ways)
19 Theater
lobbies
21 Pizza-toting rodent in a 2015 video 24 Licked
envelope part 25 “___ the
breaks!”
26 Couldn’t
back out
27 Candy heart
words
29 ___ are here 30 Brooklyn
artist Lawson 31 Online
commerce 32 Jamaican who worships Jah
37 Spanish
grocery
38 Grad
39 ___ Mahal
44 Surface for a
Child’s Pose 45 “Just about
finished!”
47 Settle up
in advance 48 Turmoil
49 Burglarize
53 Bits of internet humor
54 Buckwheat
noodle
55 Norse thunder
god
56 “___ She
Lovely”
57 Lugosi of
“Dracula”
58 Express relief 60 Unrefined
62 Aussie
hopper
63 Colony insect