UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

|“SWITCHING POSITIONS”,

ACROSS

1 Giving one?

6 Teamed, as oxen 11 ___-o’-nine-tails 14 Busy place in Chicago

15 Powerful adhesive 16 Miner’s discovery 17 Prison-made license plate, e.g.?

19 Bit of cold in the air 20 Barks up the wrong tree

21 Hair snarl 23 Kangaroo’s title? 27 Feeling of guilt

28 Rub raw

29 Certain military member

30 Peeks

31 Spock’s forte 32 Eavesdrop

35 Death penalty alternative

36 Trig function

37 Place for a nursery rhyme owl

38 Camera type, initially 39 Auricular

40 Thomas Jefferson, for one

41 Happens 43 “Wuthering Heights” writer 44 Mapmaker’s name 46 Sinks like a rock 47 What auction winners do

48 Calla lily family 49 Seven on some clocks

50 Molded by a money player?

56 Overnight establishment 57 Indoor trampolines? 58 Big-time happening 59 1 of a carton’s dozen

60 What doors allow 61 Some muscles, cut

DOWN

1 ER VIP

2 “What a discovery!”

3 Indian flatbread

4 Tolkien creature 5 Enjoys a favorite book

6 Crave

7 ___ for (selects) 8 Garden pond fish 9 Suitable for all audiences 10 Bright and energetic

11 Moving forward to vote?

12 Seed covers 13 Cone-shaped quarters

18 New York canal 22 Persona ___ grata 23 Umpire’s various shouts

24 Bubbling 25 Supporting AND funding?

26 Snatch 27 Was obviously furious

29 Red Sea notable 31 British transport 33 “La ___”

(Camus novel) 34 Eastwood’s TV character

36 Witches’ kettle 37 1,000 millennia (var.)

39 Exceed in importance

40 Played a Pearl set 42 Trucker’s sleeper 43 Vague image

44 Flick

45 Prompting on-air talent

46 Pedestrian, as writing

48 Whence to admire from?

51 Poet’s adverb 52 Genesis VIP

53 Benicio ___ Toro 54 Dynamite relative

55 Some extra periods