UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Not together
6 Follow, as rules
10 ___ pal
13 Brawl
14 Was a passenger on
15 Solo such as “La donna e mobile”
16 Skirmish at a wedding dress shop?
18 Old Macdonald had one
19 Employs
20 “’___ the season ...”
21 Soup scoop
22 Moral wrong
23 Boston hockey player sculpted out of a dairy product?
26 Impulsive hurry
28 Batters who don’t play the field, briefly
29 Insect with a leaf-cutter variety
30 Gender-affirming treatment: Abbr.
32 Game with Skip cards
33 Dined
34 Shiny bracelets?
38 ___ Alamos
39 Bourbon alternative
40 Snaky fish
41 Total
42 What some Midwesterners call soda
43 Liability’s opposite
47 Getting sand in your bikini bottom, say?
52 Experiencing little to no romantic attraction, for short
53 Certain prenatal test, familiarly
54 Issa of “Insecure”
55 Fuzzy image
56 Word before “canal” or “beer”
57 Interfere with a radar system?
60 What nomads do
61 Corner piece in
65-Across
62 Division of “The Divine Comedy”
63 Press-___ (manicure option)
64 European peaks
65 Mating competition?
DOWN
1 Attack by surprise
2 Iran, historically
3 Unearthly life forms
4 Cincinnati baseball team
5 It may have a V-neck
6 Eye hole?
7 Raise, as morale
8 End of an academic URL
9 “Even so ...”
10 One who’s done with school
11 Delta and United, for two
12 Bemoan
15 In the distance
17 Disco ___ of “The Simpsons”
21 Abbr. in a birth announcement
23 Icy hazard for a ship
24 Poet St. Vincent Millay
25 River at Lyon
27 Not that
31 Palpitate
32 Purple yam
33 “___ fair in love and war”
34 Rare occasion, metaphorically
35 Some patrons of Rasputin
36 Mistake in an email
37 Accoutrements
41 Pizza place popular in food courts
42 National dish of Vietnam
44 Contact lens solution
45 Explodes
46 Sculpted midsections
48 Give credit to
49 Batch of Brownies?
50 Talentless writers
51 “A mouse!”
55 Unexciting
57 A ___ That Fits (subreddit with lingerie advice)
58 Response to a funny DM
59 Discreetly email