UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Catcher’s catcher
5 Some shade trees
9 Secure URL opening 14 UCLA women’s basketball coach ___ Close
15 Like highlighter colors 16 Anticipate
17 Bad mood
18 Bird extinct since the late
1600s
19 “Inside Out”
protagonist
20 *Some hunks on a
charcuterie board 23 Artistic license? 25 Executive No. 2s 26 Higher-___ (superiors) 27 Used a shovel 29 Teacher’s org.
30 Free ad
33 Artsy LA or NYC
neighborhood
35 *Bold boardroom
attire
38 Be a bad winner 40 Balloon filler
41 Small mammal with a
long snout 42 *Flat-screen sets with extremely crisp displays
45 Rescue
46 “Help us!” letters 47 Prof’s helpers 48 “Uh-huh!”
50 “Shop ___ you drop” 51 Part of mph
52 Close up again
54 HBO miniseries based on a Gillian Flynn novel ... and what the starred clues’ answers are? 59 Game Boy Color
button
60 Most of a termite’s
diet
61 Denny’s competitor 64 Tonkatsu breadcrumbs 65 Norse trickster god 66 Number of spaces in a
tic-tac-toe grid 67 Anxious feeling 68 Zoomed
69 Genre for some Seoul
singers
DOWN
1 Some rap battlers,
briefly
2 Particle carrying a
charge
3 Pool player’s showy
moves
4 Religious donation 5 Eventually became 6 Many August births 7 Airplane ___
8 Winter flakes 9 “Definitely not doing
that” 10 Small sticks
11 Word after “tall” or
“fairy”
12 Some diner desserts 13 Hog’s home
21 Festival, in Arabic 22 “Best. Day. ___.” 23 Mushroom or mold 24 U.S. moon landing
program
28 Eggs on
29 Full of chutzpah
30 The Jolly Roger in “Peter
Pan,” e.g.
31 Plant-based sweetener 32 In addition
34 Rowboat propeller 36 Clever humor
37 Pause fillers
39 Starchy bite atop a hot
dish
43 Stringed instrument with
seven pedals
44 “Yes, I took care of that!” 49 Chest muscle, briefly 51 Urban green spaces 53 Smell really bad
54 Lee of Marvel Comics 55 Put up, as wall art 56 Birds that give a hoot 57 Playfully tap on the nose 58 Bit with a punch line 59 Massage site
62 Activist and musician
Yoko
63 Lively energy