UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Lubricated 6 Peaceful
10 Size above sm. 13 Unburdened by 15 High or low cards
“When They
See Us” director DuVernay
“You must be this tall to ride the roller coaster,” e.g.? Doll who has had 40+ occupations 20 Bits of progress 21 Seabird within
“water nymphs” 22 “Sweetie” 25 News inits. 26 Rene of
“The Thomas Crown Affair” “Use the squat rack as instructed,” e.g.? 31 Windy City trains 32 “All the Things You ___” (Ella Fitzgerald song) 33 Site for techies 34 Grooming businesses
Fire signal at a hospital 39 Godsend 40 Upper limb 41 Undefeated Laila 42 “No black-soled shoes in the gym,” e.g.? 47 Tennis great
Agassi 48 Potentially pulpy drinks, briefly
49 “___ With an E”
(Netflix series) 50 Neat
51 In the direction of
“___ have to?” “Keep your eyes on your own exam,” e.g.? 59 End of a
countdown 60 “Doggone it!” 61 Large concert venues Publisher’s pile: Abbr. 63 Apartment
payment
64 Joy Reid’s
channel
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DOWN
1 Not performing well
Lyricist
Gershwin
3 Luau necklace 4 More spooky 5 This entry’s
direction 6 Certain hors
d’oeuvre 7 Low-pH
8 What bring things into focus
9 Food additive
letters
10 Throws money in the air Extremely
Big name in yogurt
14 Distant
18 Shakes awake 21 One-on-one student
(Stay in your lane!)
23 Truck rod 24 Closest of friends
First hip-hop group to achieve a Gold record 28 Author Truman 29 Modern Persian 30 Squirrel’s food
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35 Game whose name is an apology
36 Type of relation
ship in statistics 37 SpaceX founder
Musk
38 Have a fancy
meal
42 Realm for
Garfield 43 Chopping them may make you cry 44 Columnist Peggy
45 Renowned defensive end for the Texans 46 Briefly experi
ences, as success 51 What a pit crew may change Single-stranded molecule 53 Brown house,
perhaps? 55 1933-45 prez 56 B&B relative 57 Uber alternative 58 PC bailout key
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