Universal Crossword
ACROSS
1 Lead-in to “physics” or
“Turf”
6 Bitter brewing ingredient
10 Piece celebrating a life,
briefly
14 Rental that always has Arizona plates in the Lower 48
15 God of love
16 Ancient letter
17 Discussion format associated with talking in circles?
19 Candace Parker’s hoops
org.
20 Fitting
21 Natasha’s role in
“Russian Doll”
22 Allowed by law
23 Cosmopolitan place?
24 Lagged behind
26 Renounce
30 Dance for Maria
Tallchief
31 Toothless warning
33 Lie, in Black vernacular
35 King Kong and Donkey
Kong
36 “I figured it out!”
37 Washington newspaper
38 Eggs on a chirashi bowl
39 NASCAR racing and
others
43 Camera memory chip
45 Like many punk-style
leather jackets
46 “That’s music to my
ears!”
48 Muscles worked by
scissor kicks
49 ___ the pot (causes
trouble)
50 Tractor brand
52 Black or Red body of
water
55 Peru’s capital
56 It’s tough to swallow
58 Give the ___ eye
59 Durian’s smell, e.g.
60 Mr., Mrs. or Mx.
61 Soaks or sprinkles
62 Muscle firmness
63 Affirmative RSVPS
DOWN
1 Mystique
2 Buy stuff
3 Not slack
4 Reward for reaching
home, perhaps?
5 Clothing brand with a
nautical name
6 ___ over heels
7 Path for the International
Space Station
8 Largest land carnivores
9 Egypt-to-madagascar dir.
10 “1984” author George
11 Jumper cable?
12 Offensive
13 Color darker than cyan 18 Deck with a Pentacles
suit
22 Rising and falling
inflection
23 Nocturnal mammals
25 Small battery
26 “___ John” (Taylor
Swift song)
27 “There’s no doubt in my
mind!”
28 Freeway restriction
29 “Why are you mad at
me?”
32 Greek P
34 What exposure therapy
can help treat, briefly
37 Tide units?
39 Dallas hoopsters,
informally
40 Willamette Valley’s
state: Abbr.
41 Gawk
42 ___ blocker (option for
trans youth)
44 Reef builders
47 Grand ___ National
Park
49 Whole bunch
51 To be, in French
52 Goes unused
53 Vogue competitor
54 Brews with 6-Across
56 Spammy Twitter
account
57 ___ chart (circular
graphic)
Today’s highlight:
On July 9, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington’s troops in New York.
On this date:
A Senate Intelligence Committee report concluded the CIA had provided unfounded assessments of the threat posed by Iraq that the Bush administration had relied on to justify going to war.
The largest U.s.russia spy swap since the Cold War was completed on a remote stretch of Vienna airport tarmac as planes from New York and Moscow arrived within minutes of each other with 10 Russian sleeper agents and four prisoners accused by Russia of spying for the West.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley relegated the Confederate flag to the state’s “relic room” after the legislature passed a measure removing the flag from the grounds of the Statehouse in the wake of the slaughter of nine Africanamericans at a church Bible study.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio used a roller to help paint “Black Lives Matter” in front of President Donald Trump’s namesake Manhattan tower. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a New York prosecutor’s demands for Trump’s tax records.