UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Explosive for Wile E. Coyote
4 Degree of difficulty?
7 Weed discard
11 What a chicken feels
12 My and his
13 Buzz ___ (“The Simpsons” soft drink)
14 “Stop choosing such an easy Halloween costume every year!”
17 Cartoon explorer
18 TV drama spots
19 Difficult to tell apart
20 Outs’ counterparts
21 “___ to Joy”
22 Present day, for short?
23 “Stop listening to Taylor Swift’s lead single from ‘Lover’!”
27 “Bald” baby bird
28 Went down one’s face, as mascara
29 Behave
32 Key to getting ahead?
33 Mess (with)
34 Dog, in Spanish
36 Coffee alternative
37 Cartoon “devil,” familiarly
38 Hold inside
39 “Stop serving this small dish!”
43 Clammy
44 Have lunch, say
45 Cartoonish shriek
46 Santiago is its largest city
48 Nonnative speaker’s course, briefly
49 Golden State sch. that Carol Burnett attended
50 “Stop eating this deli meat!”
53 Raison d’___
54 Dubai’s nation, for short
55 Pizzas, e.g.
56 One of 28 in Monopoly
57 Great deal
58 They look good when they’re ripped
DOWN
1 Outdoorsy sandal brand
2 Scottish “no”
3 “Heck yeah!”
4 Vessels for making soup
5 “Weird!”
6 “You wish!”
7 Ideological split in an organization
8 Grabbed or nabbed
9 Otherwise
10 Yoga ___
11 Truck setting for going uphill
14 Totally lost it
15 Fly, to a Venus flytrap
16 Glitz and ___
17 Break down, as food
21 Was in the red
22 Doctor’s inside image
24 Pub brew
25 Lost video connectivity, as in a Zoom call
26 Hearing aid components
30 In a makeshift way
31 Capital of Kansas
33 Waterproof covering
34 Sappho or Ocean Vuong
35 Goddess hidden in “apotheosis”
37 Punishment for a child
38 Mexican dish with
a fried tortilla shell
40 Minced words?
41 Mineral once used as baby powder
42 Exam
46 “Adorable!”
47 Employ
48 Garden of ___
49 Four-stringed instruments, for short
50 Letters at the end of a proof
51 Language spoken in Vientiane
52 Bone that protects internal organs