UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Ostentatious
8 Grumpy expression 13 Dismiss as silly 15 Swahili for
“freedom”
16 Urdu for “God
willing”
18 F, A, C and E,
e.g.
19 Russian refusal
20 Toys that start up? 22 “___ la vie”
23 Sing with your mouth
closed
25 Witty comebacks 27 Pump numbers 31 Hammer targets 32 Drinks you might want
“dirty”
34 Kind of syrup poured on
waffles
37 “Halt, matey!”
38 Dog whose face looks
smushed
40 Cyber Monday
business
41 Lead-in to “cop” or “car”
42 Big bird’s broadcaster 44 Animated green ogre
47 Flat-bottomed glasses
48 Energized
50 ___ Friday’s 51 Rowing implements 52 Twins manager
Baldelli
55 Put away, as a
carry-on
59 Take potshots 61 Grand performance? 63 Fund
64 Genre for Faith No More and Jane’s Addiction
65 Tres + cuatro 66 Signs out
DOWN
1 ___ the bottle
2 Small horse
3 Come in second, per a competitive person
4 Reaction to a perfect
back scratch
5 Pet ___ (place to pamper
a pooch)
6 Lamas, popes and
such
7 #seizetheday
8 It rises and sets 9 Candies on peanut
butter blossom cookies 10 Home of Mars and
Aries
11 Take away forcefully 12 Thirsts (for)
14 Bale contents
17 “Beep beep” source 21 ___ salt
24 One-piece garment 26 Feature of a video chat with a weak connection, perhaps 27 Representative
Ilhan
28 “Do you live
in a ___?”
29 Sentiment celebrated with a light blue, light pink and white flag 30 Taste of tea
33 Mystery writer
Grafton
35 Person whose pants are
on fire!
36 Some shade trees
39 Talk and talk
43 Mount, as a horse 45 Scandinavia’s continent:
Abbr.
46 Genre from Seoul’s
country
48 Garden coils
49 New Age keyboardist 53 Spy org.
54 Ring up
56 Dorothy’s pooch
57 St. ___ (Minnesota college named for a Norwegian king, not a snowman)
58 “Big bad” beast 60 Lamb’s mom
62 “Holy cow,” in a text