UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hilarious person 5 Namibia’s continent 11 Clean up dust and pet

hair, maybe

13 Moves one’s lips while using sign language

14 Joke often delivered

by pantomime

16 Throbs

17 Squeeze (out) 18 Palindromic sound

system brand

20 “It’s a date!”

21 Put on ___ (act superior) 23 “That was obvious” 25 Share some gossip

27 Be nosy

29 Kettle emission 31 Code-breaking org. 32 Make it big

34 “This is impossible to put

down!”

36 “Can you show me?” 38 Orange scraping

39 Title spelled with a tilde 40 Road goo

41 Web portal with a

butterfly logo

44 “Get me out of here”

computer key

45 Meat in a Cubano

46 “My ___ are open!” (“Feel free to hit me up!”)

49 BYU’S state 51 Festive Islamic greeting 54 Discussion site 56 Goal

57 “Fame” actress Cara

58 “No joke”

60 Regard as identical 61 “Leave it to me!” 62 Yield to a powerful

authority

63 “___ Romantics” (Taylor

Swift song)

64 Lawyer’s title: Abbr. 65 Udder parts

DOWN

1 Place where people can vent by destroying objects

2 I, in German

3 Ins and ___

4 Pull at

5 Music blaster

6 Awful

7 Was awesome

8 “This is awful!” 9 Collection of black and

white pieces

10 Donkey

11 Ancient Scandinavian

pirate

12 Hands, in Spanish 14 Caribbean, Red, etc. 15 Divinely good

19 “Sorry not sorry!” 22 Spots for being a couch potato 24 Derisive laugh 26 Owned

28 Recipient of a check

30 One-word country with the highest Scrabble score

33 ___ and repeat 35 Opposite of ’neath 37 Measure of someone’s interpersonal skills 40 Greek T

41 Breakfast item that has an “English” variety

42 Larry, Curly or Moe

43 Like some back alleys

45 “I’m thinking ...” 46 Fantasized

47 Praying ___ (insect) 48 Sport with clay targets

50 “It doesn’t ___ to try”

52 Insult

53 The “A” of the ABC islands

55 Dole (out)

59 Sounds of relief 60 Winter hrs. in Charlotte