C8 The Boston Globe MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2019
UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Plant stalk
5 Vader or Maul
10 Nothing special
14 Top point
15 City about an hour
from Lincoln
16 “Come in, we’re ”
17 Government report
19 Soft projectile
brand
20 Signify
21 NYC bus operator
23 Albert Pujols stat
24 Voice-activated
assistant
25 Spaghetti’s thinner
relative
28 Massive amount
29 Winter Olympics
racers
31 Smidgens
32 Nuisances in a
trash bin
34 Do a bank heist, e.g.
35 Missing class
36 Leave without words
39 Low-wage positions,
slangily
42 Pasture
43 Hubbubs
47 “Star Trek” role for
Zoe Saldana
48 Coastal expanses
50 “That’s
way to do it”
51 Difficult-to-trace
funds
53 Peace Prize winner
Sadat
55 Prohibiting booze
56 High card, often
57 Itborders(and
rhymes with) Rwanda
58 Cooking fat
60 Newscaster’s video
introduction, or a
hint to the ends of
17-, 25-, 36- and
51-Across
63 Falco of
“The Sopranos”
64 Publication
such as Slate
65 Website’s main page
66 Company behind
a ring-gathering
hedgehog
67 Seized cars, briefly
68 Has to pay backDOWN
1 Figures ready for
analysis
2 Organizational tier
3 Renowned
4 Rehab process
5 Inside info
6 Doctor’s org.
7 Genre for Cardi B
or LL Cool J
8 Booker T.’s backup
9 “The Outcasts of Poker
Flat” writer Bret
10 Certain heir
11 Run, as a machine
12 Belgrade native
13 Like a single person?
18 And others: Abbr.
22 “I couldn’t have
done that” excuse
25 Visibly excited
26 Cosmic clouds
27 Book before Joel30 Vessels on mantels
33 Birth announcement
bird
35 Somewhat
37 Former first lady
Michelle
38 “___, meeny,
miney, mo ...”
39 Makes confusing40 Utter farce
41 MacGyver a
contraption, say
44 Follow-up to “Up top!”
45 Quick way to
stop or turn
46 Colorful Mexican
shawls
48 Elicit a “gesundheit”49 Epic tale
52 Brownish-yellow tone
54 Cheesy chip
57 Applications
59 Org. that busts
narcotics rings
61 Jeans problem
62 Ambient music
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