UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Regular guy?

5 Daddy, in Spanish 9 Tardy 13 Tingle-inducing genre

of videos: Abbr. 14 Hertz competitor 15 “Flowers” singer Cyrus 16 Volunteer’s words 17 Complain at length 18 Speak aloud 19 Looney Tunes “devil,”

for short

20 Guilt felt by an ecoconscious traveler, in modern lingo 22 Condiment with a

secret recipe

24 Wood for black piano

keys

25 ___ da (Vietnamese

iced tea)

26 Corp. money

manager

29 ___ stomping (step in wine making, for some)

30 Compost or fertilizer 33 Small mammal

known for digging 34 Eurasian mountain

range

35 Regulation

36 Chilly period

38 Backs into a spot,

perhaps

39 Texting letters 40 Many ’90s music

store purchases 41 Bowler’s final frame 42 Eatery that lacks a

dining room

46 System for online

messages

49 Gold, in Guadalajara 50 Have a cow?

51 Ran out of battery 52 Beach volleyball

teams, e.g. 53 Romanian tennis star

Simona

54 The one and ___ 55 “That makes sense” 56 UAE neighbor 57 Egyptian river

58 Hot ___ (total wreck,

slangily)

DOWN

1 Tempts

2 Site of a teambuilding activity that may be hard to get out of

3 “So freakin’

awesome!”

4 Barista’s dispenser 5 Bet with previous

winnings

6 To no ___ 7 Notification sounds 8 “Have we covered

everything?”

9 Like a contortionist 10 Utah ski town 11 Overflow (with) 12 Literary heroine Jane 15 Capital of 56-Across 20 “All right” 21 Opportunities to play 23 Handled hardship 26 Place to bring a suit 27 Subjects of some local

legends

28 Poems of praise 29 Hummers, e.g. 30 Endured

31 LeBron James’ team,

on scoreboards 32 Capital of

Switzerland? 34 Beehives and braided

buns

37 Haul, informally 38 Czech prime minister

Fiala

41 T-shirt coloring

method

42 “I’ve ___ it my best

shot”

43 ___ Kwan, Yellow

Ranger in “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers”

44 Burst with pride 45 Front parts of planes 46 Sound effect in a

large empty space 47 Palindromic address 48 Penne ___ vodka 52 Faint, as light