UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Contractor’s woes?

11 “Gee willikers!”

15 “My goose is cooked!”

16 “Once more ___ the breach ...”

17 “Maybe ... ish ...”

18 Vaper’s device

19 Barely defeated

20 Mariners

22 1/60 of a min.

24 Suzanne Vega, for Barnard, e.g.

25 Muppet with a unibrow

28 Jekyll’s counterpart

30 Guy who’s into girls and guys

33 Maker of Funny Bunny nail polish

34 Criticize severely

35 Crack, as a cipher

36 Totally wreck

38 “In the Heights” composer Lin-Manuel

39 (So funny!)

40 Throw gently

41 Rug rat

42 One Time thing?

43 Didn’t float

44 “What a disaster!”

45 Acela trains’ company

47 Nine-digit ID

49 Lebanese salad

52 Actor Knight who reprised his “Seinfeld” role for a mail-in voting PSA

56 Tutorial website

57 Campfire dessert with a fruit “vessel”

59 Starburst?

60 Website with pages for “Woman Dancing” and “Cat with Wry Smile”

61 Hair colorist, essentially

62 Throwing weapons also called shuriken

DOWN

1 Button of approval on social media

2 In the center of

3 Gavel noise

4 Least conventional

5 Apt-sounding surname for a lit major

6 Faux ___

7 Big fusses

8 “Lay it on me!”

9 Italian name for Christmas

10 Muddled situation

11 Picasso painting that inspired Faith Ringgold’s “Die”

12 How often a full moon is visible, roughly

13 Start to wake up

14 Pigs that anagram to

11-Across

21 Yellow-orange hues

23 Snowboarding prodigy Kim

25 Buddhist concept for which a notable tree is named

26 Olympic swords

27 Overcomes

29 “Woot!”

31 Extra feature

32 “Nifty!”

34 “You’re ___ go”

35 Circular game pieces

37 Hand-to-hand combat?

38 MLK Day falls on it

40 Gone up against

43 Sausage in a deli slicer

44 How bad decisions are often made

46 Singer Blades of salsa’s Fania All-Stars

48 Exchanges

49 Work, as a bar

50 “How arrrrr you?”

51 Islamic pilgrimage

53 “Star Wars” sage

54 Big name in clearing out pits?

55 H’s, in Greek

58 Long whose character in “Missing” goes missing