UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Regular guy?
5 Daddy, in Spanish
9 Tardy
13 Tingle-inducing genre
of videos: Abbr.
14 Hertz competitor
15 “Flowers” singer
Cyrus
16 Volunteer’s words
17 Complain at length
18 Speak aloud
19 Looney Tunes “devil,” for
short
20 Guilt felt by an ecoconscious traveler, in modern lingo
22 Condiment with a secret
recipe
24 Wood for black piano
keys
25 ___ da (Vietnamese iced
tea)
26 Corp. money manager
29 ___ stomping (step in wine making, for some)
30 Compost or fertilizer
33 Small mammal known
for digging
34 Eurasian mountain
range
35 Regulation
36 Chilly period
38 Backs into a spot,
perhaps
39 Texting letters
40 Many ’90s music store purchases
41 Bowler’s final frame
42 Eatery that lacks a dining room
46 System for online
messages
49 Gold, in Guadalajara
50 Have a cow?
51 Ran out of battery
52 Beach volleyball teams,
e.g.
53 Romanian tennis star
Simona
54 The one and ___
55 “That makes sense”
56 UAE neighbor
57 Egyptian river
58 Hot ___ (total wreck,
slangily)
DOWN
1 Tempts
2 Site of a team-building activity that may be hard to get out of
3 “So freakin’ awesome!”
4 Barista’s dispenser
5 Bet with previous
winnings
6 To no ___
7 Notification sounds
8 “Have we covered
everything?”
9 Like a contortionist
10 Utah ski town
11 Overflow (with)
12 Literary heroine Jane
15 Capital of 56-Across
20 “All right”
21 Opportunities to play
23 Handled hardship
26 Place to bring a suit
27 Subjects of some local
legends
28 Poems of praise
29 Hummers, e.g.
30 Endured
31 Lebron James’ team, on
scoreboards
32 Capital of Switzerland?
34 Beehives and braided
buns
37 Haul, informally
38 Czech prime minister
Fiala
41 T-shirt coloring
method
42 “I’ve ___ it my best
shot”
43 ___ Kwan, Yellow Ranger in “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers”
44 Burst with pride
45 Front parts of planes
46 Sound effect in a large
empty space
47 Palindromic address
48 Penne ___ vodka
52 Faint, as light