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UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

- Universal Freestyle 49 by Garrett Chalfin, edited by Amanda Rafkin

ACROSS

1 N’djamena is its capital

5 Spaghetti sauce brand

9 Mark in a Rorschach test

13 June, in the LGBTQ+ community

15 Harness for oxen

16 It’s rubbed into palms

17 “Heads up!” on a golf course

18 Microscopi­c unit of length

19 Fan of the Orix Buffaloes, maybe

21 Shirt named for its shape

22 Word that sounds like its second letter

23 Good ___ (what a sad person might need)

24 Pic from a parlor

26 First modular space station

28 Possesses

31 Treat a lens like an audience, say

37 Event where burping is a selling point?

38 Nonprofit agency with a stylebook

39 Major motor oil brand

40 Dorm overseers: Abbr.

41 It’s used to cure lutefisk

42 Hubbub

44 Journalist ___ B. Wells

46 Steamed bun

49 “I’ve got nothing to share”

52 Hidden dangers

55 Great Lake that has the most shipwrecks

56 “Everything shall be mine!”

58 Take it easy

59 Instrument native to Australia

60 ___ and aahs

61 Online crafts shop 62 Birria, e.g.

DOWN

1 Origami bird

2 Dating app that’s “designed to be deleted”

3 Puts in

4 Shoulder muscle, briefly

5 Palindromi­c helicopter part

6 “Dragon Ball,” e.g.

7 Classic Pontiac

8 “Yeah ... I don’t think so”

9 Overwhelmi­ngly

10 “Well, well, well ...”

11 Pod veggie in caruru

12 Many a B-mitzvah attendee

13 Cool, in ’90s slang

14 Suspension­s of activity

20 Full of fight

24 This cluef has one

25 Dined on humble pie 26 Insignific­ant

27 Refreshing coffee order

29 Word after “performing ” or “fine”

30 Utters

31 School orgs.

32 Strong desire

33 HS class in which students might read “Dos Palabras”

34 First word of “Jabberwock­y”

35 “Finishing the ___” (Sondheim memoir)

36 Stallion’s mate

43 Specs

44 Apple tablets

45 Like a fixer-upper, maybe

46 A razor has one

47 Permit

48 Capital of Norway

49 Infamous fiddler

50 Cookies and cream brand?

51 “Pick a ___!”

53 Fake ones might have plastic needles

54 Working hard

57 Cleverness

 ?? ??

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