UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Big party

5 Surrender

9 The real ___ (the genuine

thing)

14 Some jazz combo

instruments

16 Split to get hitched 17 Pointless Scrabble

piece?

18 Ebbs

19 Romantic gesture from across the room, perhaps

20 Straighten

21 ER staffers 22 Sympathized with

25 Big mouths

27 Exciting, slangily 28 Spanish painter

Salvador

30 Place for “snakebite”

piercings

31 ___ Diego

32 Convenience store sign

34 Punny phrase in support of people’s access to all books

37 1995-2007 MTV reality show that took place in an RV

38 Driving requirement? 39 Quaint lodging

40 “Frozen” snowman 41 Remote inserts, usually 42 “The Sweetest Taboo”

singer

44 Rearward, at sea 46 Pokemon Red Version or

D&D

49 Citrus fruits squeezed

over guacamole

51 Series of bloopers

53 ___ Rights Movement 54 Taiwanese drink with

tapioca pearls 56 Computer operators 57 Sundance submission 58 Out of style 59 Cumbersome piece of

furniture

60 Ooze

DOWN

1 Storybook elephant 2 Risky poker bet 3 Constellation makeup 4 (I’m a goose!)

5 Watch Whiskers,

perhaps

6 “The limit does not ___” (“Mean Girls” line)

7 Dover’s state: Abbr. 8 Language suffix 9 Kitten’s whimper 10 Call dibs on 11 Snakelike group

dance

12 Dentist’s instruction 13 “Totally!” 15 Button at the start of a

streaming TV show 20 Go off script

23 Result of some phishing,

perhaps

24 Chair designer

Charles

26 Risked a traffic

ticket

27 Installed, as carpet 29 Ensnarled

31 Birdlike pool

entrances

32 Book of maps

33 Console released in

1991: Abbr.

34 “Bearded” flower

35 “___ Smile” (2003 Julia

Roberts rom-com) 36 Luau dances

41 Saudi ___

43 Middle Eastern rulers 45 Treble clef lines 46 Fasten again, as laces 47 “Get Out” director

Jordan

48 Sleep in a luxurious tent,

say

50 “What ___ is new?” 52 NFL flag tossers 53 Trophy

54 Some upper-arm

muscles, for short 55 Game with Reverse and Wild Draw Four cards