UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
Scare Quotes by Lisa Senzel, edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Microchipped family
member, maybe
4 PC pioneer
7 “Hulk” actor Bana 11 Cutesy dinosaur
sound
13 Outdoor gear retailer 14 Resident of Italy’s
capital
16 Line from “The Sixth
Sense”
19 Company behind Words
With Friends
20 Expert
21 Microsoft Windows’
counterpart
23 Like some kitchens 24 Feel sick
25 Chief impact
26 Line from “It”
29 “SNL” network
30 Not many
31 Container for mints 32 Shack
35 Op-___ (newspaper
columns)
37 After expenses
39 “My lips ___ sealed” 40 Chimpanzee, for
one
41 Muscle spasm
43 Prefix with “athlete” 45 Start of a line from “A Nightmare on Elm Street” 50 South ___ (Seoul’s
country)
51 WNBA great Bird 52 Lead-in to “cotta” or
“firma”
55 Fruits used to flavor
gin
56 ___ Aviv
57 Mythical underworld 58 Conclusion of a line from “A Nightmare on Elm Street”
61 Grin
62 Piece of firewood 63 Preserve, as in Word 64 Hayes of “Will &
Grace”
65 Wonderment
66 Cariou or Deighton
DOWN
1 Nobel ___
2 Cushy course
3 Bill that may feature
Harriet Tubman 4 Wrath
5 “C’mon, help me
out”
6 What a crop top
exposes 7 Palindromic poetic
preposition
8 Item used with a Swiffer to recreate Olympic curling, in a viral video
9 Pass on, as knowledge 10 Former spelling of West
Bengal’s capital
12 Zone
15 Modern dark film
genre
17 River in a Strauss waltz’s
title
18 Common allergen
22 It can be skipped on a
lake
27 High-def screen
28 Have because of 32 Atlanta NBA team 33 Maintains, as a ruling 34 Cafes with all the
gossip?
36 Midday nap
38 Two ___ and a lie
(icebreaker game)
42 “101 Dalmatians” villain
de Vil
44 Lofty goals
46 ___-weenie
47 Calif. locale of the Latino
Walk of Fame 48 18-Down’s color,
often
49 Trying experience 53 Stem cell research advocate and Superman player Christopher 54 Colorado ski resort 59 Bog
60 One, for a newborn in
Seoul’s country