UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

Universal Freestyle 122 by David Karp, edited by Taylor Johnson

ACROSS

1 Regular guy?

5 Daddy, in Spanish

9 Tardy

13 Tingle-inducing genre

of videos: Abbr.

14 Hertz competitor 15 “Flowers” singer

Cyrus

16 Volunteer’s words 17 Complain at length 18 Speak aloud

19 Looney Tunes “devil,” for

short

20 Guilt felt by an ecoconscious traveler, in modern lingo 22 Condiment with a secret

recipe

24 Wood for black piano

keys

25 ___ da (Vietnamese iced

tea)

26 Corp. money manager 29 ___ stomping (step in wine making, for some)

30 Compost or fertilizer 33 Small mammal known for digging

34 Eurasian mountain range

35 Regulation

36 Chilly period

38 Backs into a spot, perhaps 39 Texting letters

40 Many ’90s music store

purchases

41 Bowler’s final frame 42 Eatery that lacks a dining

room

46 System for online messages

49 Gold, in Guadalajara 50 Have a cow?

51 Ran out of battery

52 Beach volleyball teams, e.g.

53 Romanian tennis star

Simona

54 The one and ___

55 “That makes sense” 56 UAE neighbor 57 Egyptian river

58 Hot ___ (total wreck,

slangily)

DOWN

1 Tempts

2 Site of a team-building activity that may be hard to get out of

3 “So freakin’ awesome!” 4 Barista’s dispenser

5 Bet with previous winnings

6 To no ___

7 Notification sounds 8 “Have we covered

everything?”

9 Like a contortionist 10 Utah ski town 11 Overflow (with) 12 Literary heroine Jane 15 Capital of 56-Across 20 “All right” 21 Opportunities to play 23 Handled hardship 26 Place to bring a suit 27 Subjects of some local

legends

28 Poems of praise 29 Hummers, e.g. 30 Endured

31 Lebron James’ team, on

scoreboards

32 Capital of Switzerland? 34 Beehives and braided

buns

37 Haul, informally 38 Czech prime minister

Fiala

41 T-shirt coloring

method

42 “I’ve ___ it my best

shot”

43 ___ Kwan, Yellow Ranger in “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers”

44 Burst with pride 45 Front parts of planes 46 Sound effect in a large

empty space 47 Palindromic address 48 Penne ___ vodka 52 Faint, as light