UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Big party
5 Surrender
9 The real ___ (the genuine thing)
14 Some jazz combo instruments
16 Split to get hitched 17 Pointless Scrabble piece?
18 Ebbs
19 Romantic gesture from across the room, perhaps
20 Straighten
21 ER staffers
22 Sympathized with
25 Big mouths
27 Exciting, slangily 28 Spanish painter
Salvador
30 Place for “snakebite” piercings
31 ___ Diego
32 Convenience store sign
34 Punny phrase in support of people’s access to all books
37 1995-2007 MTV reality show that took place in an RV
38 Driving requirement? 39 Quaint lodging
40 “Frozen” snowman 41 Remote inserts, usually
42 “The Sweetest Taboo” singer
44 Rearward, at sea 46 Pokemon Red Version or D&D
49 Citrus fruits squeezed over guacamole
51 Series of bloopers
53 ___ Rights Movement 54 Taiwanese drink with tapioca pearls
56 Computer operators 57 Sundance submission 58 Out of style 59 Cumbersome piece of furniture
60 Ooze
DOWN
1 Storybook elephant 2 Risky poker bet 3 Constellation makeup 4 (I’m a goose!)
5 Watch Whiskers, perhaps
6 “The limit does not ___” (“Mean Girls” line)
7 Dover’s state: Abbr. 8 Language suffix 9 Kitten’s whimper
10 Call dibs on
11 Snakelike group dance
12 Dentist’s instruction 13 “Totally!”
15 Button at the start of a streaming TV show 20 Go off script
23 Result of some phishing, perhaps
24 Chair designer
Charles
26 Risked a traffic ticket
27 Installed, as carpet 29 Ensnarled
31 Birdlike pool entrances
32 Book of maps
33 Console released in
1991: Abbr.
34 “Bearded” flower
35 “___ Smile” (2003 Julia Roberts rom-com)
36 Luau dances
41 Saudi ___
43 Middle Eastern rulers 45 Treble clef lines
46 Fasten again, as laces 47 “Get Out” director Jordan
48 Sleep in a luxurious tent, say
50 “What ___ is new?”
52 NFL flag tossers
53 Trophy
54 Some upper-arm muscles, for short
55 Game with Reverse and Wild Draw Four cards