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‘a little something extra’

- BY JEANNE BREEN The Universal Crossword • Edited by David Steinberg/anna Gundlach/adrian Johnson/jared Goudsmit

ACROSS

1 Bubble tea

5 Word after “exit” or “straw” 9 Border on

13 Birthstone for many Libras

14 Cheese that’s sometimes baked

15 Singer Simone

16 Insightful

17 Yoga pose

18 Improves, as whiskey

19 Company bigwig

21 First name in jeans

23 Took a seat

24 What an antenna picks up

27 Loner

29 British singer Rita

30 Italian automaker

32 Flew high

33 First name in cognac

35 Compete (for)

36 Cozy lodging

37 “Rad!”

38 Recent EGOT winner John

40 “Como ___?”

44 Four-wheeler, e.g.

46 Nutrition label fig.

47 E-mail folder

48 Fried treat with cinnamon sugar

51 Focus-related condition: Abbr.

53 Anger

54 Millennium Falcon pilot

56 “Happy to!”

58 “Ick!”

59 CBS procedural

61 2019 documentar­y about a fraudulent music festival

62 Travel by boat

64 Standoffis­h

66 Tag sale caveat

69 Little

70 ___ and void

71 “We had ___ a fun time!”

72 Slaw or salad at a barbecue

73 Opinion piece

74 Olympic sword

DOWN

1 Gift topper

2 Nail polish brand with a Barbie-inspired collection

3 Starting point for a mountain climber (In this clue’s answer, see letters 7-4)

4 Apple : Siri :: Amazon : ___

5 “Masterpiec­e” channel

6 Type of exam

7 Eye makeup

8 Storms out (...letters 9-5)

9 Santa ___, California

10 California region with redwood forests

11 Worried feeling

12 Sampled

17 Mount St. Helens, e.g. (...letters 10-6)

20 Pointy-eared creature

22 Lady Gaga, to the LGBT+ community

24 British noble

25 “Milk’s favorite cookie” brand

26 Colorado ski resort

28 Bowling alley divisions

31 Colorful aquarium fish

34 Orbital periods

39 “___ are...”

41 Adds some excitement to...and what you’ll find in the starred clues’ answers?

42 Actress Reid

43 “Hear, hear!”

45 Suffix for “Jumbo”

48 Treasure holders

49 State with more vowels than consonants

50 Relax

52 Like some humor

55 For a bodybuildi­ng competitio­n

57 Clear, as a whiteboard

60 Shoe bottom

63 Caustic chemical

65 Bygone

67 Freezer cubes

68 ___/her pronouns

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