UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Lyme disease spreader 5 Devoured 10 (Don’t let your
co-workers see this)
14 Tennis great Arthur 15 Approval
16 Toledo’s state 17 *Cockpit
19 Letters in love letters 20 Sunbathe 21 Nest egg plans, for
short 22 Privileged groups 24 Chocolatey coffee
order 26 Unified group of voters 27 Pacific island nation that created the first shark sanctuary 30 Vision-related 33 Begin 36 Theater workers 38 Only 39 Joke like “There’s no point to a broken pencil” 40 *Region that includes
Phoenix and Miami 43 Pro’s opposite 44 Egyptian symbol of life 46 Ring loudly 47 Bothered 49 Hawks’ grabbers 51 “Bye Bye Bye” band
53 Give off 54 Where I-80 crosses the Missouri River 57 Chicken tikka ___ 59 2021 film with ASL dialogue 61 Frozen lake’s surface 63 Slack-jawed 64 *Slimy nuisance in a flower bed 67 Medieval bludgeon 68 One may be marked as read 69 Voice above tenor 70 Boats like Noah’s 71 Begins to grow light 72 Touches up one’s roots, say
DOWN
1 President after
Roosevelt
2 Muslim’s faith
3 Trouser fabric
4 Beer barrel
5 Word before “projection”
or “plane”
6 “See? It’s magic!”
7 Calm regions in
hurricanes
8 Sch. by L.A.’s Exposition
Park
9 Raw fish dish that
originated in Hawaii 10 Like poisonous fumes 11 *Device set to 24 seconds
in the NBA 12 Prix ___ menu
13 Tries to win over 18 Cymbal pairs
23 Abbr. akin to Inc. 25 Lifeguard’s technique, for
short
28 Teen’s facial woe 29 Opposite of rural 31 Succulent that’s da
balm?
32 Rip to pieces
33 Squabble
34 Albacore, e.g.
35 *Short item of footwear 37 Sleek marine creatures 41 Stole the spotlight
from
42 Heartless character
in Oz?
45 Artistic tributes 48 Electronics brand
50 Zero
52 Alpine calls
55 Not flat, as a landscape 56 Like at least two angles in
every triangle
57 Bear whose porridge was
cold
58 Substance in a petri
dish
59 “That sticks in my ___!” 60 God found in “as God
intended”
62 Inflated self-images 65 Org. for physicians 66 Bummed