C8 The Boston Globe THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2019
UNIVERSALCROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Alitalia’s mainhub
in Italia
5 Secular
9 Consume soup
annoyingly
14 Bauxite and
hematite
15 Idris of “Thor:
Ragnarok”
16 Thin cookie
17 In the mail
18 Crying face emoji
feature
19 Bondagent?
20 “Tough luck,
buddy!”
(see letters 2-7)
23 They’re below pecs
24 Put away the
groceries?
25 Canadiansentence
enders
28 “This is between us”
(letters 7-12)
34 Opposite of paleo-
35 Yoko’s youngest
36 German politician
Merkel
37 Wiener schnitzel meat
39 Bragg and
Ticonderoga: Abbr.
41 Kids’ guessinggame
42 “That makes sense”
45 Golfer Aoki
48 Afternoon affair
49 Judge Marilyn
Milian’s reality show
(letters 9-14)
52 Always, to a poet
53 “No more details, pls”
54 Like Aleve, briefly
55 Veer,andahintto
the indicated letters
in 20-, 28- and
49-Across
61 Think the world of
64 Colombian
metropolis
65 Rock that flows
66 Mars explorer
67 “Frozen” snowqueen
68 Ripens
69 Plugs of tobacco
70 Rod’s partner
71 Mystical character
DOWN
1 Like an optimistic
outlook
2 Twist-apart treat
3 Aid in choosingsides?
4 Stellar
5 “Hmm”
6 A Baldwin brother
7 Vowel-shaped beam
8 A resume
summarizesit
9 Make more
desirable,as a deal
10 Sgt. Friday’s force
11 Craft sighted in the
Beaufort Sea?
12 “Oedipus ___”
13 Get too personal
21 Flows back
22 “Fuzzy Wuzzy ___
bear ...”
25 Mocedadeshit of 1974
26 Elf, to Santa
27 Patronize on vacation
28 Ask to a party, say
29 Acquire incisors
30 Do-nothing
31 Clumsy sort
32 “Wait ___ Dark”
(Audrey Hepburn
thriller)
33 Sci-fiflick FX
38 Back talk
40 Minnesota-to-
Alabama dir.
43 Leashes
44 “Brave New World”
drug
46 Unlikely to mingle
47 Eight: Prefix
50 Lobster claw
51 Of the eye
55 All hands on a ship
56 “The Wizard of Oz”
surname (or wind!)
57 If all ___ fails
58 Roasted Garlic Pasta
Sauce maker
59 “Frozen” reindeer
60 Lack of stress
61 Storyline shape
62 Homer Simpson
utterance
63 Egg cells
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