UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
Coming Together by Lance Enfinger and Jeff Chen, edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Goat sound
4 Deer who is Thumper’s
friend
9 Take to the slopes
12 “Back in Black” band
14 Belted constellation
15 Take it on the ___
16 MMXXIII, for one
17 Studio behind “Up”
18 Military org. on
campuses
19 Like a Brink’s truck
21 Floral brew
23 Tiny
24 Mimic
25 Place to wear a robe
28 Scanned ID at a supermarket
32 “Silly me!”
35 City voting districts
37 “Say what?”
38 “Dancing With the Stars” winner Ohno
40 Fisher of “Eighth Grade”
41 PC shortcut key
42 Organizing consultant Marie
43 Kings of ___ (rock band)
44 Lawn care brand
46 Gallon or gram
47 Like many Oscar speeches
48 More sad
49 Golf ball supports
50 Greed
52 ___ Grand (Vegas hotel)
55 Word-for-word
56 Actress Dennings of “Wandavision”
59 Enjoying solitude, say
61 Before now
62 Strummed and picked instrument
64 Loosen
65 British granny
66 Vast expanse of water
67 “Ta-ta!”
68 Either side of a Mad magazine battle
69 Void ___ prohibited
DOWN
1 *“Sure, why not?!” 2 Laptop brand
3 Eve’s partner
4 Woody’s love interest in
“Toy Story”
5 Dry as a desert 6 Margarita ___
7 Pig that becomes a snake when its last letter is removed
8 Bit of headway 9 Attempt
10 Benjamin Franklin
allegedly flew one 11 *Colluding 13 *Clustering (around) 15 *Exit stealthily 20 Reduce, ___, recycle 22 “Bark for me!” 25 “Neato!”
26 Diet heavy on the meats
27 Burning crime
29 Phonies
30 Chasm between peoples ... and what each starred clue’s answer “bridges” by leaping over a black square
31 “Ha, karma strikes again!”
32 “Death Be Not Proud” poet, and an anagram of “no end”
33 Hit from the 1960s, say
34 ___ and hollers 36 Microwave alert
39 Sit in a corner and sulk
44 “Well, duh!”
45 Killer whale
50 Echo voice
51 Joint in the arm
52 Planet that some have
proposed terraforming
53 Unbridled joy
54 Planted agent
56 Joint in the leg
57 Slightly open
58 Musical sound
60 Vote against 63 Berliner’s cry