UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

PUNctuation

ACROSS

1 5 Unadorned Flex

9 Flourish 14 First fratricide

victim

15 It’s spiky yet soothing 16 Author Ingalls Wilder

17 One running in

fashionable circles 19 Complete and total

20 Interrogate

Zuckerberg?

22 “I can’t ___ that!”

(response to a gross image)

23 Ray guns’ rays, maybe 27 Newsroom VIPs 28 Leprechaun who’s a

cereal mascot 30 Corp. head honcho

31 Daring poker

statement 34 Tear transmitters

36 With 37-Across, hugely

inflate price estimates?

37 See 36-Across

39 Mothers’ sisters 40 Mollusk often served in a white wine sauce

41 Letters before a pseudonym

42 Tissue layers

44 Clean Air Act org.

47 Cherished 50 Deck with wands 52 Send along Kirk x Spock fanfic, say? 55 Measured poker statement 58 Infiltrate, as a spy 59 Righteous 60 They may be long on the 61 underdog Father of 14-Across 62 63-Across and others 63 Ogden who wrote, “The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk” 64 Shoe part, or a fish

DOWN

1 From a region on Spain’s

border

2 Teem

3 Music played as the

clergy exit

4 Renee ___ Goldsberry 5 Indonesian island

6 “Call Me by Your Name”

protagonist

7 Like a bully

8 Decree to pass muster 9 Book jacket summary 10 “I love you a ___”

(Hanukkah card pun) 11 Openly queer

12 Mine material 13 Damage

18 Put away some

groceries? 21 ___ which way 24 Gradually speeding up, in music 25 New York baseball players 26 ...---... 28 Short, informally 29 Application 32 Place to get stuck 33 Six-pack components 34 MS-___ 35 Tribe for which a Western state is named 36 Ellington of jazz 37 “___ pasa?” 38 Naval letters 39 Vocalization at the dentist’s 40 ___ rights (suspect’s protections) 42 Part of rpm 43 Food writer Nigella 45 Part of USPS 46 Not out and about 48 C sharp, by another name 49 Barbie and G.I. Joe 50 Reproachful sound 51 Secret identity 53 Scarlet and vermilion 54 Crush, as hopes 55 Little devil 56 Dove call 57 Verb that sounds like its second letter