UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
Universal Freestyle 112 by Quiara Vasquez, edited by David Steinberg
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
DOWN
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