UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

Head of State

ACROSS

1 Hollywood legend Mae 5 Errand runner 10 Self-satisfied

14 Pal, in Paris 15 Cognizant 16 Dorothy's dog 17 Fusion genre popular in Myrtle Beach and Charleston? 19 Cookie created to compete with Hydrox 20 Former name signifier 21 Was ahead

22 Some starter courses 24 Past and present, for two 26 Preliminary race 27 “Strange Magic” band, briefly 30 Mexican artist Frida 32 Military alert system 34 Ram's counterpart 36 Yours and mine 38 Tree's supports 39 Census data from Columbia and Joplin? 42 Light in a cave, maybe 43 Billion: Prefix

44 ___ culpa 45 Asylum in the Batman universe

47 Fruity soda brand 49 “See ya!” 50 Suggestive 52 Power failure 56 Angle symbol, in math 58 Keyless entry device 59 “Awesome!” 60 Honolulu's home 62 Part-time opportunities for residents of Fort Wayne and Muncie? 65 Something to keep up when you're down 66 Maritime

67 ___ of Man 68 Corkboard insert 69 Muscle targeted by squats, informally 70 Have a hunch

DOWN

1 “I Just ___ Made for These Times” (Beach Boys song) 2 Person who introduces acts

3 Reason to pull over 4 Gossip, in slang 5 “Jeopardy,” e.g.

6 Had debts

7 The 2% in 2% milk 8 Remove

9 Add more money to, as a debit card 10 Eight-sided sign 11 What a wire tapper uses?

12 Great Basin tribe 13 Gunk

18 Type of bargain 23 In ___ (unborn) 25 “Saturday Night Live” segment

26 Appall

28 Oodles of 29 Clip-___ (certain sunglasses) 31 Pulmonary organ 33 Layout

34 Georgia school where Jimmy Carter is tenured 35 Characteristic of a good employee 37 Nintendo competitor 40 Chicago airport

41 Kiss and embrace 42 Bar bill 46 Defeating in chess 48 Cannoli shell, basically

51 “A man, a plan, a ____, Panama” (famous palindrome)

53 Got up 54 Triangular part of a building 55 Notorious Ford flop 57 Dreamboat 58 Decree

60 Month of Indigenous Peoples Day: Abbr. 61 Word of sudden insight

63 “Law & Order” spinoff, informally

64 Peter Pan rival