Universal Crossword March 17, 2024 Answers

1. "Poor me" 5. Fraud 9. "What disappointing news!" 14. Lean 15. Yarn you can't knit with 16. "Fingers crossed" 17. McDonald's slogan 19. Kind of lens for close-ups 20. Meals delivered via curbside pickup, e.g. 22. Word after "stretched" or "wore" 23. Inventor Whitney 24. Inbox zero 26. Sensitive ID 28. Chief prosecutors, for short 31. Installed, as a carpet 32. "Go ahead" signals 34. 1996 Demi Moore film based on a Carl Hiaasen novel 39. Something working as it's supposed to, contrary to intuition 41. "Time to leave!" 42. Like a three-hour movie 43. Played with, as a dreidel 44. The "S" of CST: Abbr. 46. Letters before "Enterprise" or "Constitution" 47. Super modern, in a retro way 51. Poet's "frequently" 53. Savior 54. They keep workers up at night 59. Filmmaker Kurosawa 61. Afro-Jamaican religion 62. Tablets or teaspoons, e.g. 63. Minuscule amount 64. MBA program subject 65. "What a pain in the keister!" 66. Serena ___ (tennis feat) 67. Solidifies

1. Working hard 2. Car with sideways-facing seats 3. Like some bathrooms 4. Seat that might have three legs 5. Use a mixing spoon 6. ___-holding 7. Extraterrestrial 8. Routes shown on some transit maps 9. Axe-throwing skill 10. "I'd be foolish NOT to buy this!" 11. Chewy Japanese rice cake 12. Earth Day's month 13. Safety vest hues, e.g. 18. Invalidate 21. Cargo ship's stop 25. Catcher's glove 26. Two-finger sound 27. Seat seen in "Sons of Anarchy"? 29. Unsurprisingly 30. Intimidates to get one's way 33. Increasingly optional parts of college applications 35. Make noise at a red light, say 36. Order leading to quick turnarounds? 37. Phoenix hoops squad 38. Some donated cells 40. Category 45. 2022 FIFA World Cup's city 47. Disreputable 48. Black tea variety 49. Crop up 50. Digital counterpart to brick-and-mortar sales 52. Flutes in military bands 55. "Como ___ usted?" 56. Thorn locale 57. Gait faster than a walk 58. "Deadly" septet 60. Fireplace remnant