UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Contractor’s
woes?
11 “Gee willikers!”
15 “My goose is
cooked!”
16 “Once more ___ the
breach ...”
17 “Maybe ... ish ...”
18 Vaper’s device
19 Barely defeated 20 Mariners
22 1/60 of a min.
24 Suzanne Vega, for
Barnard, e.g.
25 Muppet with a
unibrow
28 Jekyll’s counterpart
30 Guy who’s into girls and
guys
33 Maker of Funny Bunny
nail polish
34 Criticize severely
35 Crack, as a cipher
36 Totally wreck
38 “In the Heights”
composer Lin-manuel
39 (So funny!)
40 Throw gently
41 Rug rat
42 One Time thing?
43 Didn’t float
44 “What a disaster!”
45 Acela trains’ company
47 Nine-digit ID
49 Lebanese salad
52 Actor Knight who reprised his “Seinfeld” role for a mail-in voting PSA
56 Tutorial website
57 Campfire dessert with a
fruit “vessel”
59 Starburst?
60 Website with pages for “Woman Dancing” and “Cat with Wry Smile”
61 Hair colorist,
essentially
62 Throwing weapons also
called shuriken
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1 Button of approval on
social media
2 In the center of
3 Gavel noise
4 Least conventional
5 Apt-sounding surname
for a lit major
6 Faux ___
7 Big fusses
8 “Lay it on me!”
9 Italian name for
Christmas
10 Muddled situation
11 Picasso painting that inspired Faith Ringgold’s “Die”
12 How often a full moon is
visible, roughly
13 Start to wake up
14 Pigs that anagram to
11-Across
21 Yellow-orange hues
23 Snowboarding prodigy
Kim
25 Buddhist concept for which a notable tree is named
26 Olympic swords
27 Overcomes
29 “Woot!”
31 Extra feature
32 “Nifty!”
34 “You’re ___ go”
35 Circular game
pieces
37 Hand-to-hand
combat?
38 MLK Day falls on it
40 Gone up against
43 Sausage in a deli slicer
44 How bad decisions are
often made
46 Singer Blades of salsa’s
Fania All-stars 48 Exchanges
49 Work, as a bar
50 “How arrrrr you?”
51 Islamic pilgrimage
53 “Star Wars” sage
54 Big name in clearing out
pits?
55 H’s, in Greek
58 Long whose character in
“Missing” goes missing