UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Actress Menzel of
“Wicked”
6 ___ Bay Rays
11 Lawyers’ grp.
14 “Water Lilies” painter
Claude
15 Audibly
16 Tennis barrier 17 Investigates (In this answer, note the first 2 letters + the last 3) 19 Berkeley school, briefly 20 Radio journalist
Shapiro
21 Doesn’t exist
22 Location
23 Turndowns
25 “The Mikado,” e.g.
(... first 2 letters + the last 2)
28 Comes after
30 Grammy winner
Morissette
31 “I don’t care what
they do”
32 Exercise, as power
35 File extension for simple documents
36 Where to enjoy rolls while rolling? (... first 3 letters + the last 2) 39 Disco ___ (“Simpsons” character) 42 Insurance company with a green mascot 43 Alluded to
47 Against: Prefix
49 Idolize
50 Certain shoe bottom (...
first 3 letters + the last 2) 54 Drops the ball 55 Hydrochloric ___ 56 Cleveland’s Great Lake 57 Filming locale
58 Terrible review
59 Shares a meal ... or what 17-, 25-, 36- or 50-Across does?
63 Finish
64 Peter of “Everybody
Loves Raymond”
65 Iraqi port city
66 Web feed initials 67 Gathers DNA, perhaps 68 “Heavens to ___!”
DOWN
1 Seat, as a jury
2 Choice on “Let’s Make a
Deal”
3 Most stained, as from a
leaky pen
4 Once named
5 Tags on X
6 Anklebones
7 “Move ___!” (“Keep
going!”)
8 Opening at the dentist’s
office?
9 It may be groan-worthy 10 Append 11 Far in the past
12 Author Potter of kiddie
lit
13 No less than
18 Feels crummy
22 “Me day” destination 24 Took legal action
26 Soft mineral 27 Gerontologist’s subject 29 One who’s left a
country
32 Nintendo console 33 Business abbr.
34 Word before “surfing” or
“trip”
37 Close to
38 Meander
39 Ice remover
40 They have big bills 41 Frees from fastenings 44 Most to the point 45 Overdue debts
46 Time for a midterm 48 “Not certain yet,” briefly 49 “Mudbound” director
Dee ___
51 “Ta-ta!”
52 Sonicare competitor 53 Cares for
59 Small ammo
60 Line of seats 61 Consumer protection
org.
62 Surname that’s an auditory organ backward