Universal Crossword June 5, 2024 Answers

1. Green 29-Across, for short 5. ___ mater 9. Casual attempt 13. Kendrick of "A Simple Favor" 14. From the largest continent 15. Certain something 16. *Bluntly 18. Some diagnostic scans: Abbr. 19. ___ moment 20. Either of two Spice Girls 21. Luau strings, briefly 22. Ph.D. student's pay, usually 26. Video game with straight, square, T, L and skew pieces 28. Combustible heap 29. Party bowlful 31. Ceylon and oolong 32. Wall St. launch 33. Election participant 35. Mandarin greeting 38. Bog 39. *Popular clique 41. Ad ___ (marketing) 42. Concentrate 44. Forecast extremes 45. "Te ___" ("I love you," in Spanish) 46. Gram, e.g. 48. Second sign of summer 49. Abbr. on an envelope 50. Cicero, famously 52. Ballerina's slipper 54. Chooses 55. Granola bit 57. Trident-shaped Greek letter 58. Diluted 59. *The forest, as opposed to the trees 64. Pennsylvania city at one end of I-79 65. Parenthetical comment 66. "My word!" 67. Beach castle material 68. Adroit 69. Like good advice

1. Space between teeth 2. Card game similar to Crazy Eights 3. "Gimme ___!" (start of an Iowa State cheer) 4. Fancy party appetizer 5. Communication syst. in "CODA" 6. Neeson of "Taken" 7. "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe" painter 8. Piece of jewelry above a foot 9. Japanese warrior 10. *Public facility in the Muslim world 11. First sign of spring 12. Low voice 17. Not just any 22. Neaten (up) 23. Universal donor's blood group 24. *Cold War "boundary" 25. Leave high and dry 27. Watches over 30. Danger 33. Stop by 34. Man of many words? 36. "We ___ please" 37. Gas in an atmospheric layer 40. Kind of cushion for a prank 43. Like questions that can't be answered 47. Words before "so sad" 49. "Things being what they are ..." 50. Musical work whose villain is usually a 12-Down 51. Bring up 53. "Get me out of here!" key 54. Is in debt 56. End-of-the-week exclamation 60. Summer hrs. in Seattle 61. Home of Minn. and Tenn. 62. Disreputable paper 63. Asset for an interior designer