UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Filled to the ___

5 The Matterhorn’s range 9 Elongated circle 13 Pantheon’s locale

14 Game played on

horseback

15 Rascal

16 *Sources of street tunes 18 Spooky

19 Prepare to be knighted 20 *Device used to launch an

old video game, perhaps 22 Little ___ (Dickens

heroine)

24 Front part of the

mezzanine

25 *They’re not worth

discussing

30 Boarding gate guess: Abbr. 32 Lake vessel

33 Boxer Riddick

34 Terrier’s bark

36 Chowed down on chow

fun, e.g.

37 Trail mix fruits

40 Insect in a colony

41 ___ Talks

42 Caesar’s fateful day

43 Puts to bed, with “in” 45 ___ Marino (microstate) 47 *Like the people on a

high-profile FBI list

49 It keeps oxen together 51 Pull sharply 52 *Not-to-be-missed novel 56 Futuristic Nintendo

racing series

59 Muscat resident

60 *1989 Young MC hit, or what you might do when listening to it

63 Jazz club highlights 64 Food for an angel or a

devil?

65 Begged

66 Distort, as data 67 Dropped in the polls 68 Length of service

DOWN

1 “Gimme one sec,” in a

text

2 Corner chess piece

3 “My time to shine!”

4 2000 thriller in which Guy Pearce played an amnesiac

5 Iconic Harlem theater 6 Fish on a bagel 7 Commoner

8 Passable, at best

9 Tense and irritable 10 Magic performance at a

talent show, e.g.

11 Budget competitor 12 Onionlike vegetable 15 High-fat diet

17 Pager

21 Either twin who starred in

“Full House”

23 Sex drive

25 Hurdle for a future

OB-GYN

26 Garfunkel and ___ (folk

duo)

27 Retail event that doesn’t

last long

28 They sense scents

29 Full of turns

31 “Thanks,” in Munich 35 Common condition at a

VA hospital

38 “Dexter” actress Garcia 39 Poem segment

44 Like hair after a long

night’s sleep, say

46 “Ask me later”

48 Floated on the breeze 50 TV matriarch Jenner 52 Forest floor growth 53 Hesitant agreement 54 Preschool basics 55 Twofold

57 Guest star’s assignment 58 At an end

61 Race in a super-G 62 Genre hidden in “mixed

music”