Universal Crossword September 25, 2025 Answers

5. Office message 9. Luau locale 14. Agitate 15. Qatari leader 16. In check 17. Is excited one moment and bored the next, say (In this clue's answer, see letters 5-8) 20. Abs of ___ 21. "Frozen" character 22. Compete (for) 23. Go on a tirade 26. Cathedral recess 28. Campaigned for office 31. Like someone described as "fresh-faced," maybe 34. Jam band with a series of "Live Bait" albums 37. Easily inflated or bruised things 39. Former Russian leader 40. It's a numbers game 41. Sunbathes (... letters 4-8) 44. Arcade game pioneer 45. Molten rock 46. Palindromic fashion magazine 47. Nut whose name has different regional pronunciations 48. Kagan of the Supreme Court 50. Plural French article 51. URL starter 53. Microscope part 55. "I knew it!" 57. Detest 60. Played a part 64. Military unit established in 1775 (... letters 10-14) 68. City dubbed "The Heart of Georgia" 69. "Best Day ___" (Mac Miller mixtape) 70. Wordless performer 71. Put forth, as effort 72. In ___ (aligned) 73. Relaxing getaways

1. Planets, poetically 2. Vocal variation in speech 3. Common succulent 4. Not as many 5. "I'm not impressed" 6. Midwest ___ (moody subgenre) 7. Tiny speck 8. Spoken 9. Problematic person 10. And so on: Abbr. 11. Too prideful to participate 12. Fog City's state, informally 13. Notable literary alter ego 18. Crush it, slangily 19. Code-breaking grp. 24. Written reminder 25. Small skirmish 27. Oceanfront 28. Summarize 29. Striped gem 30. "Over my dead body!" 32. Word preceding "passage" or "spray" 33. Behave like a suck-up 35. Flair 36. Tubes that might be kinked 38. Acorn-toting "Ice Age" rodent 42. "... if you pick up what I'm putting down" 43. Zebra's neck hair 49. Fastidious to a fault 52. Skillet or wok 54. Hustles 55. High point 56. Elaborate ruse 58. Golf props 59. Green feeling? 61. Stumble 62. Titular Jane Austen heroine 63. Colors, as Easter eggs 65. Blue Jays' city: Abbr. 66. Number of countries that border Brazil 67. Curve