UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bob or bun

7 Greek god of desire 11 First of the five W’s 14 Commotion

15 Kitten’s cry

16 Payment promise 17 Low-growing plants 19 Snack mix morsel 20 Herbal tea flavor 21 Enjoy a home-cooked

dinner, say 22 Disorganized jumble 23 Ernie who won two U.S.

Opens

24 Curie who won two

Nobel Prizes

25 Zap with a focused

beam

26 Hornet’s cousin

29 Baby that hoots

32 Initial development 33 Life-altering line at the

altar

34 ___ benefit (perk) 36 “You’re way off base!” 38 Close friend, in slang 39 “Steal This Book” author

Hoffman

43 “No more, thanks” 44 Riveting

47 “Not guilty,” say 48 Gunky buildup 49 Avocado toast topper 52 Switch companion 53 Canine companion 54 Purple boba flavor 55 End of UNICEF’s

URL

56 Some helpers on the

Hill

58 To the ___ degree 59 Pre-owned

60 Flight to sleep on 61 “All the News That’s Fit to Print” paper, briefly

62 Workplace bigwig 63 Thinly populated

DOWN

1 Candy heart message to

embrace?

2 Black Women’s History

Month

3 Golfers’ alternatives to

woods

4 Major defeat 5 Castellaneta of “The

Simpsons”

6 Grueling experience 7 Joy or jealousy

8 Yelp blurbs

9 Wilson of “Zoolander” 10 Camera type,

briefly

11 Bacchanalia bags 12 Casino’s advantage over

bettors

13 Ways of escaping 18 Monte ___

22 PC alternative 24 Annual Manhattan

celebrity fundraiser 25 Barracks toilet

26 It’s spent in

Sapporo

27 Yom Kippur

observer

28 Play, as a horn 29 Trade-___

(concessions) 30 End-of-filming

shindig

31 Center of attention 35 Draw away from

shore

37 Texter’s “Holy moly!” 40 They “get away” in fish

stories

41 Beginnings of

progress

42 Formal decree 45 Do-over, in badminton 46 “She has all my love” 49 Champing at the bit 50 “___ Anatomy”

51 “Check it out for

yourself!”

52 Beethoven’s German

birthplace 53 Washington, D.C. : dollar

:: Mexico City : ___

54 Cry made with a

flourish

56 Teaching temp

57 Word before “rally” or

“talk”