Universal Crossword December 23, 2024 Answers

1. Boats like Noah's 5. "Succession" network 8. Rapper with a clock necklace, familiarly 12. Pro ___ (for free) 13. Treasure hunter's aid 14. Summary 16. Not just simmer 17. Summer hrs. in Colorado 18. Cry at the end of a scene 20. Following (Note letters 3-5 in this answer + ...) 22. Teeny-tiny (... letters 1-5 in this answer) 24. "This is infuriating!" 26. ___ Enterprise 27. Thin Mints seller (Letters 7-9 + ...) 30. One of Santa's reindeer (... 1-4) 32. "Where the Wild Things ___" 33. Promos 34. Consumed 35. Winter Olympics hats (Letters 4-7 + ...) 38. Built muscle (...1-4) 42. That woman 43. Beethoven's "___ Elise" 44. ___ out a victory 45. Nativity scene figure (Letters 3-5 + ...) 48. Retiree on a fixed income (... 1-7) 51. Moody music genre 52. Choir members 53. One reason to get a haircut ... or what four black squares in this puzzle do? 56. Window ledges 60. Pilfered 61. GPS guess 63. Train track part 64. Approvals 65. Color on a candy cane 66. A big fan of 67. Feminine "sir" 68. ___-Cat (winter vehicle) 69. Ooze

1. Palindromic pop group 2. What goes over your head? 3. Work with yarn 4. Cirque du ___ 5. "I wonder ..." 6. States you might be in when saying 24-Across 7. ___ Prime ("Transformers" leader) 8. Credit card crime 9. Part of a camera 10. "Back in Black" band 11. In a ___ (without context) 15. Heartbeat 19. Exam 21. Abbr. in an apartment ad 23. ___ King Cole 25. Suffix with "land" or "sea" 27. Neon, for example 28. Annoy 29. Portuguese king 30. Soup container 31. Poem of praise 34. Something to get back on, idiomatically 36. Sch. in Fort Collins 37. Satisfied sighs 38. Filament element 39. Bear's lair 40. Luau instrument, informally 41. According to 43. Wheel guards on a car 45. Zooey's role on "New Girl" 46. Opposite of full 47. Performed alone 48. ATM code 49. Tax org. 50. Egyptian underworld god 52. Have a feeling 54. Rick's love in "Casablanca" 55. Be abundant 57. Highway division 58. Lo-cal 59. Pig food 62. "Much ___ About Nothing"