UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

Universal Freestyle 121

ACROSS

1 ___ Scout cookies

5 First words of “Crazy Train”

14 Inkling

15 “No doubt about it”

17 Become worn at the edge

18 Admitting one’s mistakes

19 Kind of jar near the cash register, maybe

20 Stare in amazement

21 Give a glowing review

22 Raptors also known as sea hawks

24 One might hang over a crib

27 Catlike

28 Second half of a record

29 Move effortlessly

30 “Move on already!”

34 “Honest” prez

35 ___ pitch (state of extreme excitement)

36 Card with two different point values in blackjack

37 Prominent parts of funk music

40 Plastic wrap brand

42 Discover

43 Necessary ingredients, informally

44 Pilot a plane

46 Pterodactyl feature?

47 Move like a moth

48 Band with the 1982 hit

“Africa”

49 Simple top

50 Brightly patterned Hawaiian top

54 Small coastal inlet

55 Unserious amateur 56 Matured

57 Good thing to have near the start of a game

58 Oodles

DOWN

1 Ability to speak confidently and persuasively

2 “Luther” star heard at the start of Taylor Swift’s “London Boy”

3 Puts on again, as sunscreen

4 Place down

5 “Yes, captain!”

6 Jumps

7 Overdue

8 Poke bowl protein

9 Recycling receptacle

10 “R u for real?!”

11 Attribute (to) 12 Like nearly 65% of Vermont’s population in 2020

13 Operated a vehicle

16 Barnyard mama

20 It’s hereditary

23 Free (of )

24 Tiny biters

25 Stench

26 Drink, informally

28 Most common roll in craps

30 Romance or fantasy, for

example

31 Champin’ at the bit 32 “Literally, it’s too much for me to process”

33 Some geared bicycles

35 Italian automaker 38 Move like a snake

39 Meadow

40 Farm structure

41 Chopping tool

43 Like some bedsheets

44 Irish singer and guitarist Sherlock known for her viral Youtube videos

45 String quartet instrument

46 Kinda

47 Craze

48 Prong on a fork

51 Peach State airport code

52 Pig ’s pen

53 Evil computer in “2001: A

Space Odyssey”

54 Mr. Jinx in “Meet the

Parents,” for one