UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Place to grab a
mocha 5 Yawn-inducing 9 Bugbite symptom 13 Stink badger’s stink 14 Skate on ice 15 Screenwriter Ephron 16 One helping others buy clothes (In this answer, note the first 2 letters + the last 4) 19 Deer on Michigan’s
state flag
20 Largest of China’s 56
ethnic groups 21 Contemplated 22 Death Valley’s prevailing weather (... first letter + the last 3 letters) 27 Spanish for “more” 28 Smile from ear to
ear
29 Corn core
32 Rod at a pig roast 34 Heating pad target 35 Breakfast-in-bed need 36 Soup and dessert, e.g. 38 “Now listen ...”
40 A cuttlefish has eight 41 Legend
43 Ice sculpture and others
44 Lively energy 45 Grain for gimbap 46 Extreme anger 47 Charming lady from Charleston, say
(... first 2 letters + the last 2)
53 Minor mistakes
55 ___ de parfum
56 Not feeling great 57 Lifetime tennis achievement (... first letter + the last 3 letters) 62 Beauty brand since
1886
63 Dodge
64 Lacking in excitement 65 Prohibits
66 Polo animal
67 Surgery souvenir
DOWN
1 Dealt with adversity 2 “Rolling in the Deep”
singer
3 Salad utensils
4 Triage spots: Abbr. 5 Mont ___ (highest of the
Alps)
6 Small, for short 7 Subway car displays 8 Half-hearted laugh 9 Constructive criticism,
say
10 Very hush-hush 11 Language on some
Canadian stop signs 12 Like a coconut’s shell 14 Pests in a cloud 17 “Doggone it!”
18 Muscat’s country 23 Qatari monarchs 24 Airport ~10 miles from
JFK
25 From Dublin or
Limerick
26 “I call dibs!”
30 Dragon boat steerers 31 “See ya”
32 Needing an ice bath 33 Lifts weights
34 “Ha, fooled ya!” 35 Number of NFL teams in
California
36 Hat with a visor
37 Send forth
39 Airpod, e.g. 42 Short-sleeved shirt 45 Sneaky trick
46 Plain silly
48 Starts the bidding
49 “All set?”
50 Color similar to
lavender
51 Alpaca’s bigger
cousin
52 Bovine glue mascot 53 Sign of healing 54 Volcanic output
58 Single side plank or
situp
59 Day-___ paint
60 Train for a marathon 61 City rds.