‘universal freestyle 32’

ACROSS

1 Type of boat lodged in Niagara Falls

for more than 100 years

5 Rapper’s rhythmic pattern

9 Gem with a play of color

13 Hedging words in an estimate

14 Big game venue

15 Fancy fabric spelled with the same consonants as “limo”

16 “Midnite Vultures” singer-songwriter

17 Perfect pair

19 Word before “lettuce” or “cucumber”

20 “For real?”

21 Moralistic types

23 Drink like a cat

24 British bathroom

25 Shows excess concern

26 Room littered with dirty clothes, e.g.

27 Sleep disorder

28 Able to be tried

29 Edge of a hat

33 Made with more than just Nestle Toll House chips, say

36 Certain gender-fluid person, for short

37 Where insults are said to stick 38 Voltaire, religiously

39 One might be personal or technical

40 Talks immodestly

41 Donkey

44 Korean American actor Philip

45 Forum regular who doesn’t post messages

46 Damage control experts

49 Not trans

51 Prime time?

52 Apiece

53 A single time

54 Vowels in “Old Macdonald”

55 Site such as Fandom

56 Wetland growth

57 Not as much

58 Singer born Eithne Padraigin Ni Bhraonain

DOWN

1 Weeps

2 Furtively approach

3 Academy slight

4 Moo goo gai pan pan

5 Worries

6 Remini of The King of Queens 7 Product line?

8 “Hold on!”

9 Minnesota’s St. ___ College

10 Like the Holy See

11 BP subsidiary

12 Resulted in

14 Vaulted recesses of churches

18 They should last 10-20 minutes, per many sleep experts

20 Perfect

22 Lead-in to a cooking date?

25 Become dim

26 Taj ___

28 Certain ponytail holder

29 Dreary

30 Create a disturbance

31 “Hard to know what to do”

32 Citi Field players

34 Lodging that may be Leed-certified

35 Noble gases lack them

39 Beanie Babies and Wordle, for two

40 Southwestern pack animal

41 In regard to

42 Book title spot

43 “Well, ___ you asked...” 45 Designer Vuitton

47 Have to have

48 “Little piggies”

50 Twelvers’ Islamic branch

52 Lamb’s mom