UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
Muscles used while rowing, for short List-shortening abbr.
8 Etsy shop contents
Far fromcalm Like some traditional medicine Less nice
Visual sharpness Forest moon of “Star Wars” 20 Steal from 21 Muscles used
while planking 23 Often-anticipated day of the wk.
25 Tool useful for
latke-making 29 Close to one’s
heart
31 Decided to
discuss later 33 X-___ machine 34 Richards of “Starship Troopers” 36 Double-checked 38 Activity of high
interest? 40 Kondo on
Netflix 41 Muscular dog 44 Settings for a
photographer 47 Tool thrown in
some bars: Var. 48 Remove using a
crowbar 50 Cleveland’s lake 51 Manager’s concern
___ Lipa (Grammy winner for “Electricity”) 54 Not many
55 48 teaspoons 56 Crown for a
princess
59 “Oh, really?” 62 Frequent flyer’s
rewards
65 More simple 66 Scouring supply 67 One receiving
texts at work? 68 “___ Miserables” 69 Pastrami
purveyor
1
5 14 16
17 18 19
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DOWN
1 Lucy of
“Elementary”
2 “Raggedy” doll 3 Ride-shares, in a way (see letters 9 to 7)
4 Go in circles? 5 One may list
grades (12 to 9) 6 Earth, in Spanish 7 “Proud Mary”
band, briefly 8 Ambassador’s subordinate
(9 to 6) 9 Elementary school instruments
First island mentioned in “Kokomo” “Fidelity,
Bravery, Integrity” agcy.
12 Bit of ink? 13 Sneaky
15 Time ___ again 21 Get to a total 22 Sometimes
fuzzy buzzer 24 Early PC maker 26 Binary test
options (8 to 5) 27 Body part with a
canal
28 Kind of bread 30 Bread-related verb that sounds like 28-Down’s
10
11
plural
32 On the ___
(escaping) 35 Excess amounts 37 Place in
cyberspace 39 Celebratory cry 41 River barrier 42 Maker of Good
Grips products 43 Agree without
speaking
45 3/14 dessert,
for some 46 Cross-stitch,
perhaps 49 Destined to fail 52 Second part of
“Cats”
57 Q&A on Reddit 58 Watermelon
discard 59 Vietnamese
holiday
60 Food for horses 61 Egyptian snake 62 Knee part: Abbr. 63 Unagi or anago,
at sushi bars 64 Hindu honorific