The Boston Globe

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- NEWBIES BY DEANNE CLIBURN AND SHANNON RAPP | EDITED BY DAVID STEINBERG

ACROSS

1 Not together

6 Follow, as rules

10 ___ pal

13 Brawl

14 Was a passenger on 15 Solo such as “La

donna e mobile” 16 Skirmish at a

wedding dress shop? 18 Old MacDonald had one 19 Employs

20 “’___ the season ...” 21 Soup scoop

22 Moral wrong 23 Boston hockey player sculpted out of a dairy product? 26 Impulsive hurry 28 Batters who don’t

play the field, briefly 29 Insect with a leafcutter variety 30 Gender-affirming

treatment: Abbr. 32 Game with Skip cards 33 Dined

34 Shiny bracelets? 38 ___ Alamos 39 Bourbon alternativ­e 40 Snaky fish

41 Total

42 What some

Midwestern­ers call soda 43 Liability’s opposite 47 Getting sand in your

bikini bottom, say? 52 Experienci­ng little to no romantic attraction, for short 53 Certain prenatal test,

familiarly 54 Issa of “Insecure” 55 Fuzzy image

56 Word before “canal”

or “beer”

57 Interfere with a radar

system?

60 What nomads do 61 Corner piece in

65-Across

62 Division of “The

Divine Comedy” 63 Press-___ (manicure

option)

64 European peaks 65 Mating competitio­n?

DOWN

1 Attack by surprise 2 Iran, historical­ly 3 Unearthly life forms 4 Cincinnati baseball team 5 It may have a V-neck 6 Eye hole?

7 Raise, as morale

8 End of an academic

URL

9 “Even so ...”

10 One who’s done with

school

11 Delta and United, for

two

12 Bemoan

15 In the distance 17 Disco ___ of “The

Simpsons”

21 Abbr. in a birth

announceme­nt

23 Icy hazard for a ship 24 Poet St. Vincent Millay 25 River at Lyon

27 Not that

31 Palpitate 32 Purple yam

33 “___ fair in love and

war”

34 Rare occasion,

metaphoric­ally 35 Some patrons of

Rasputin

36 Mistake in an email 37 Accoutreme­nts 41 Pizza place popular in

food courts 42 National dish of

Vietnam

44 Contact lens solution 45 Explodes

46 Sculpted midsection­s 48 Give credit to

49 Batch of Brownies? 50 Talentless writers 51 “A mouse!” 55 Unexciting

57 A ___ That Fits (subreddit with lingerie advice) 58 Response to a funny

DM

59 Discreetly email

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