Universal Crossword August 14, 2025 Answers

1. Animal shelter chorus 5. Thick carpet or haircut 9. "You wish!" 13. (Get out of the fast lane!) 14. Grow intellectually 15. "hahaha" 16. TALK AT THIS VOLUME 17. "My name is ___ Montoya" 18. Sharp flavor 19. Coach on the slopes 22. The stars in the Big Dipper, e.g. 23. Green: Prefix 24. Three: Prefix 27. "Whip It" group 28. One using a rod and reel 31. Start of symptoms 33. "Seeing red," "feeling blue" and "going green" 34. Leave out 37. "___ or it didn't happen" 39. Get dealt 9-8-7 in blackjack, say 40. Professional in a red truck 44. Spill it! 45. To and ___ 46. Hot cider server 47. Pleistocene and Eocene, for two 49. Beethoven's "Moonlight ___" 51. Pocket bread 52. Best starting spot in auto racing ... or 19-, 28- or 40-Across? 58. Free from wool 61. Velociraptor, e.g., briefly 62. Tibetan dumpling 63. Praise for an achievement 64. "Just messing with you!" 65. Wilson of "Cars" 66. "You said it, sister!" 67. French noggin 68. Lion's locks

1. Deep void 2. Stunk like the dickens 3. King of Spain since 2014 4. Deadlock that may lead to a hung jury 5. In the mail 6. Small winning margin 7. Quarrels (with) 8. Italian dumplings 9. Charlie Parker's sax type 10. What a sassy person has 11. Janis ___, angsty "Mean Girls" character 12. Dense driving hazard 14. It's double-checked by Santa 20. Element in a bar sign 21. ___ the line (didn't act up) 25. Pharaoh honored at Abu Simbel 26. App with reels, informally 28. Pretend 29. Insect bite sensation 30. Part of a meaty rack 32. Helix 34. Sign-___ (farewells) 35. Surrealist Joan 36. ___ oxide (what makes Mars' soil red) 38. "Full speed ahead!" 41. Relatives of sleeper sofas 42. TV series installment 43. South Asian bread 48. She may go out to pick up litter 50. Grillmaster's garment 53. Perfect, as writing 54. Predatory fish 55. Where Ames is 56. Sign of the future 57. Quantity increased by removing its first letter 58. Horn-heavy Jamaican genre 59. Low, steady sound 60. Laudatory poem