UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Unadorned

5 Flex

9 Flourish

14 First fratricide

victim

15 It’s spiky yet soothing 16 Author Ingalls Wilder 17 One running in

fashionable circles 19 Complete and total 20 Interrogate

Zuckerberg?

22 “I can’t ___ that!” (response to a gross image)

23 Ray guns’ rays, maybe 27 Newsroom VIPS 28 Leprechaun who’s a

cereal mascot

30 Corp. head honcho 31 Daring poker

statement

34 Tear transmitters 36 With 37-Across, hugely

inflate price estimates? 37 See 36-Across 39 Mothers’ sisters 40 Mollusk often served in a

white wine sauce 41 Letters before a

pseudonym

42 Tissue layers

44 Clean Air Act org. 47 Cherished

50 Deck with wands 52 Send along Kirk x Spock fanfic, say?

55 Measured poker statement

58 Infiltrate, as a spy 59 Righteous

60 They may be long on the

underdog

61 Father of 14-Across 62 63-Across and others 63 Ogden who wrote, “The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk”

64 Shoe part, or a fish

DOWN

1 From a region on Spain’s border

2 Teem

3 Music played as the

clergy exit

4 Renee ___ Goldsberry 5 Indonesian island

6 “Call Me by Your Name”

protagonist

7 Like a bully

8 Decree to pass muster 9 Book jacket summary 10 “I love you a ___”

(Hanukkah card pun) 11 Openly queer

12 Mine material 13 Damage

18 Put away some

groceries? 21 ___ which way 24 Gradually speeding up, in

music

25 New York baseball

players

26 ...---...

28 Short, informally 29 Application

32 Place to get stuck 33 Six-pack components 34 MS-___

35 Tribe for which a Western state is named

36 Ellington of jazz

37 “___ pasa?”

38 Naval letters 39 Vocalization at the

dentist’s

40 ___ rights (suspect’s

protections)

42 Part of rpm

43 Food writer Nigella 45 Part of USPS

46 Not out and about

48 C sharp, by another

name

49 Barbie and G.I. Joe 50 Reproachful sound 51 Secret identity

53 Scarlet and vermilion 54 Crush, as hopes

55 Little devil

56 Dove call

57 Verb that sounds like its

second letter