UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Workplace watchdog

org.

5 Sunday service

9 Got rid of, in a gangster

movie

14 Jimmy ___ shoes

15 Facts and stats, for a

debater

16 Without others 17 *Spark emitter at a science museum (In this answer, unscramble letters 1-7)

19 Hearth for metals 20 Muesli grain

21 Not lax

22 Field yield 23 *Emotionally charged environments (... letters 4-10)

28 ___ Royale National

Park

29 Circle segment 30 Number always on the

rise

31 NFL official

34 Obi-wan Kenobi

portrayer Guinness 35 Broadway’s Salonga 36 *Holders of 21+ merit

badges (... letters 3-9) 39 Receipt line

41 Runny part of a fried

egg

42 ___ Lanka

43 Medium’s “gift” 44 Yappy lapdog, briefly 45 Green growth on a

rock

49 *1998 film in which Pierce Brosnan voiced King Arthur

(... letters 2-9) 55 Ctrl+z

56 “Thus ...”

57 Molecule studied by

Rosalind Franklin 58 Doing a bouncer’s job 60 Confection that holds together the starred clues’ answers 62 “Unhand me!” 63 Large book 64 Britain’s Middleton 65 Reply to “Am not!” 66 Certain PC ports 67 “Zounds!”

DOWN

1 Eight-armed creatures 2 Tool for gathering wool 3 Backpacker’s stopover 4 MSN competitor 5 Asian gambling mecca:

Var.

6 French for “love” 7 Strike, in the Bible 8 Note after fa

9 Clumsy sort

10 Group overseen by a

shepherd

11 “Seriously!”

12 Gobble down

13 Region with

hydrothermal vents 18 Tags on social media 24 Some facial cosmetics 25 HS class with integrals 26 Cookies that may be

mixed into ice cream 27 Come to pass

32 Home of the Great

Pyramid

33 Adorable furball 34 Inquire

36 Fast-track

37 Muppet with a pet goldfish named

Dorothy

38 Magazine with a “Person of the Year” issue

39 Margarita liquor

40 Into pieces

46 Stale joke

47 Piece with movements 48 Held a view?

50 Playlist makeup 51 Seized autos

52 Ant’s haul 53 “Despicable Me” girl 54 Yr. divisions

59 Slimy substance 60 Name that sounds like a

hearty dish

61 Plucked instrument,

informally