UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

Universal Freestyle 121 by Dylan Merrill, edited by Taylor Johnson

ACROSS

1 ___ Scout cookies

5 First words of “Crazy

Train”

14 Inkling

15 “No doubt about it” 17 Become worn at the

edge

18 Admitting one’s

mistakes

19 Kind of jar near the cash register, maybe

20 Stare in amazement 21 Give a glowing review 22 Raptors also known as

sea hawks

24 One might hang over a

crib

27 Catlike

28 Second half of a record 29 Move effortlessly 30 “Move on already!” 34 “Honest” prez

35 ___ pitch (state of

extreme excitement) 36 Card with two different point values in blackjack 37 Prominent parts of funk

music

40 Plastic wrap brand 42 Discover

43 Necessary ingredients,

informally

44 Pilot a plane 46 Pterodactyl feature? 47 Move like a moth 48 Band with the 1982 hit

“Africa”

49 Simple top

50 Brightly patterned

Hawaiian top

54 Small coastal inlet 55 Unserious amateur 56 Matured

57 Good thing to have near the start of a game 58 Oodles

DOWN

1 Ability to speak confidently and persuasively

2 “Luther” star heard at the start of Taylor Swift’s “London Boy”

3 Puts on again, as sunscreen

4 Place down

5 “Yes, captain!”

6 Jumps

7 Overdue

8 Poke bowl protein 9 Recycling receptacle

10 “R u for real?!”

11 Attribute (to)

12 Like nearly 65% of Vermont’s population in 2020

13 Operated a vehicle 16 Barnyard mama 20 It’s hereditary

23 Free (of )

24 Tiny biters

25 Stench

26 Drink, informally

28 Most common roll in

craps

30 Romance or fantasy, for

example

31 Champin’ at the bit 32 “Literally, it’s too much for me to process”

33 Some geared bicycles 35 Italian automaker 38 Move like a snake 39 Meadow

40 Farm structure 41 Chopping tool

43 Like some bedsheets 44 Irish singer and guitarist Sherlock known for her viral Youtube videos

45 String quartet

instrument

46 Kinda

47 Craze

48 Prong on a fork

51 Peach State airport

code

52 Pig’s pen

53 Evil computer in “2001: A

Space Odyssey”

54 Mr. Jinx in “Meet the

Parents,” for one