UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
Universal Freestyle 123
ACROSS
1 Perfume ingredient
5 “Wish” protagonist whose name is hidden in “sea shanty”
9 Throw lightly
13 Lingering pleasant feeling
15 Five dozen
16 “Yas, queen!”
17 See 23-Across
18 123-45-6789 isn’t one: Abbr.
19 Sojourner Truth’s “___ I a Woman?”
20 Ear-y?
21 Route to the Old West
23 Ad ___ (“To the stars,” in
17-Across)
26 Nosy person
27 Lead-in to “Kim,” “Jon” or “Wayne”
29 Kilt folds
31 Coop dweller
32 Indian title from Sanskrit
33 Pare, as a pear
34 Soulful British pop star
36 Connect
37 Novelist Deighton
38 Journalist ___ B. Wells
39 Marital partner
41 Mini-albums, for short
42 One may be set for 8 a.m.
44 Colorado ski town
45 Vague, supernatural, tingly intuition
48 Fuming
49 Greek war god
50 “Special” brownie ingredient, briefly
53 Super ___ Bros.
54 She plays the quiz lady in “Quiz Lady”
56 Pigpens
57 Meeting in the middle?
58 Obtains
59 Word before “buckets” or “cow”
60 “Now it’s clear”
DOWN
1 No. 24 who was a 24-time MLB All-star
2 Space force transports?
3 Shock
4 Barrel with a tap
5 Texas A&M athlete
6 Arm rests?
7 Dr. Seuss book with the line “A person’s a person, no matter how small”
8 Leather punch
9 Princess topper
10 Beefy bowlful
11 Maya Angelou poem of hope and resilience
12 “Brief,” for “short”: Abbr.
14 Give a vocal warning, as a lion
15 Noisily drink
20 Makes amends
21 Mouthy?
22 French for “Christmas”
23 Classic American pie type
24 Catches up on Z’s, perhaps
25 “Kurt smells like ___” (bit of graffiti that inspired a Nirvana hit)
28 Summer fabric
30 Explored the Great Lakes, say
35 Turning point of WWII
36 San ___ (city in Silicon Valley)
40 Former Volkswagen sedan
42 “Hasta luego”
43 Germany’s first female chancellor
46 Cornell and Yale, e.g.
47 Full of gossip
50 Pope with an aptsounding name
51 “I’ll buy this round!”
52 Wrapping paper sticker?
53 Umami enhancement letters
54 German’s “Oh!”
55 Org. concerned with domestic threats