UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Bisexual icon ___ Gaga

5 Kind of golf or drive

9 Ostriches’ kin

13 People for whom a Great Lake was named

14 Yiddish dirt spreader

15 Trajectory

16 *Place for zealous churchgoers

18 Put ___ practice

19 Capital of the Bahamas

20 In the past

22 Drops on a lawn

23 Poetic homage

24 *Item traded among young collectors

28 “The Lion King” queen

30 Not quite curly or straight

31 Nintendo antihero with a zigzag mustache

32 In that place

34 Giving in

35 *Performing random acts of kindness, in modern parlance

38 Win-win

39 Bamboo-loving bear

40 Dole out

41 What may be used in a pinch?

42 Timed contest

46 *Kind of “pie” with a custard middle

49 Itinerary word

50 German luxury car

51 Word between “here” and

32-Across

52 They cast ballots

54 “Su-u-ure you do!”

56 2009 hit with the lyric “I want your love,” or a hint to the word scrambled in each starred clue’s answer

59 River in the Egyptian god Hapi’s domain

60 Fencing swords

61 “Star Trek” lieutenant trained in fencing

62 Posh party

63 Libraries do it

64 “All the White Friends I Couldn’t ___” (Andre Henry memoir)

DOWN

1 Look to for support

2 Wet fleet?

3 Semi fuel

4 Longings

5 German article

6 Holiday ___ (hotel chain)

7 Like saunas

8 Ship’s goods

9 ___Pen

10 Small, orange citrus fruit

11 Saying aloud

12 Well-groomed competitor?

14 Words from someone seeking compensation

17 Bottle top

21 “We must keep going!”

25 Corn syrup brand

26 What an able golfer might shoot

27 Ritzy cracker topping

29 Fundamentally

33 Name that anagrams

to “honest”

34 Peso fractions

35 Neighbor of Ecuador

36 “No need to worry”

37 Fierce wind

38 Snapping up, as the last hors d’oeuvre

41 What a Band-Aid may cover

43 Thoroughfare

44 O shape

45 Make less challenging

47 Prize won by astrophysicist Andrea Ghez in 2020

48 Delivery room VIP

53 Something to do

55 Gossip to “spill”

57 Pride hangout

58 ___ + yellow = orange