South China Morning Post

Universal Crossword

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Across

1 Pueblo material

6 Female sheep

9 All two

13 Middle Eastern home of the world’s oldest capital

14 “Mercy me!”

15 Crowd’s clamour 16 Pressure sources at school

17 Winter underwear 19 Out of juice

21 Like a highlighte­r hue 22 Flair

25 Parks or Luxemburg 27 *Garlicky shrimp dish 31 *Thanks for dinner 32 He pities the fool 33 Dissonant, perhaps 34 They’re practiced in pre-K

35 Basic font

37 With little to no vermouth, or with no booze

38 How to do your best thinking?

42 Title for Maisel or Doubtfire

43 Sailors tie them 44 Colourful eye part 46 Went off like a smoke detector 48 Tabby, for one 50 *Welles of old Hollywood

51 *Straight’s partner, or like a strait

52 Grad. degrees

53 ___ on the back (encouragem­ents)

54 Soccer legend AKA Edson Arantes do Nascimento

56 Actor Omar or Mike 58 Flowery tropical tree 62 Guitar riffs’ relatives 66 Manipulato­r 67 Do perfectly

68 Eagle’s home

69 Vodka serving 70 Jungfrau or the Matterhorn

71 Boy band formed in 1995

Down

1 Venomous viper

2 Enhance with henna, say

3 Deposit in a vein 4 Where chicks chirp 5 *Mock

6 “Ratatouill­e” restaurant critic Anton 7 “I ___ Be Sedated” (song by the Ramones)

8 *Privacy privet

9 Wild horse

10 “___-la-la!”

11 Tropical vacation “souvenir”

12 Slugger’s scores: Abbr. 14 Mythical kingdom of gold

18 Subway shove

20 Elbow’s spot

22 Time of Taylor’s tour 23 Peon

24 Finger pointer

26 Warm up for a workout

28 Small country in the Pyrenees 29 Person who swears by “Das Kapital”

30 Layer of paper or wood

33 Spa sound

36 “Let’s shake on that!” 39 Stick for a marshmallo­w

40 Neither Dem. nor Rep. 41 Tissue tests

42 Deg. from Wharton 45 Kind of pad with scour power

47 Warhol’s soup can paintings and such 49 Baker’s meas.

52 Word before “code” or “colony”

55 *Hawaiian porch 57 *Pirate ship feature 58 Roast beef au ___ 59 Volcanic residue

60 Corp. bigwig 61 Skordalia or guacamole

63 Snivel or sob

64 Family

65 Fraction of a min.

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