UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
Sticky Situation by Noelle Griskey, edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Holiday in 48-Down 4 Get in the game
8 ___ and cheese
11 Actress Remini
12 Classic German
camera
13 Campfire residue
14 ’80s lower-body workout video (Theme hint: Look at the starts of this answer and the one below it)
16 Long or Peeples
17 Tool that may be
retractable
18 Service station offering 19 Tallies
20 Advanced degree? 21 Man-to-man
alternative
22 “___ be my pleasure!” 24 Tapenade ingredient 28 Elton John’s
instrument
31 Seismic source
35 Large coffee vessel 36 “Notorious” former justice, briefly 38 Documentarian Burns 39 Wine and dine, say 40 Hammer out a deal 43 Steakhouse option 45 Italian luxury fashion house
46 “Aye aye, ___!” 47 “Chopped” contestant 50 Hush-hush grp. 52 Shuffle or Nano
56 Jet ___
57 Further explanation in an article (... the ends of this answer and the one below it)
61 Even a bit of 62 Elongated sponge cake
biscuits
63 Tool dipped in a
bucket
64 Highly capable
65 Prefix with “pilot” or
“correct”
66 Western Pa. airport
code
67 Zap with a beam 68 Rental car extra, briefly
DOWN
1 Bedtime for some 2 Enters slowly
3 Name hidden in “not
home”
4 Place to purchase a
parakeet
5 “In ___ of gifts ...” 6 Big name in laptops 7 New Haven Ivy 8 Salsa fruit 9 Japanese, say 10 Wild-goose ___ 11 Island cookout 12 36-Across took it 14 “Butter” K-pop band 15 Provide (for oneself ) 21 Form of Buddhism 23 Linzer ___ (Austrian
dessert)
25 Facebook action 26 Diamonds, in slang 27 Starbucks size, or Italian
for “twenty”
28 It may not be intended 29 Angry state 30 Oscar-winning director
Lee
31 “Holy smokes!” 32 “Terrible” age
33 Many, many moons 34 Salmon eggs
37 TSA checkpoint
container
41 On vacation
42 Antique photograph 44 Raise
46 Indian wrap
47 Gripping gadget 48 Vietnamese capital 49 Tut’s territory
51 Cottony
53 Angelou and Plath 54 Other, in Oaxaca
55 ___ Moines
57 New York-to-tel Aviv
option
58 Pops, to a toddler 59 “Beware the ___ of
March!”
60 Unexpected glitch