UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Rocks in a cocktail 4 Alter ego of Bruce Wayne
10 Letters for your closest pal
13 Texter’s “Much appreciated!” 14 Trapezist, e.g.
16 “___ said it!”
17 Cry from Homer Simpson
18 *Some coral reef explorers
20 Pied ___
22 “Quiet!”
23 *Converter that plugs into a certain PC port 26 Three-___ sloth
27 Wreck
28 Tupperware topper 29 Scatters, as seeds
30 Allow
31 Missing from a mil. base
33 Garden tool
34 *Fred Flintstone
catchphrase 39 Condition causing repetitive behavior: Abbr.
40 Sound of a coin dropping into a fountain
41 ___-free (water bottle
claim)
43 Jobs for musicians or
freelancers
45 Playbill blurb 46 Flamenco cheers 47 Toy brick
48 *Hit the bar for happy
hour, say
51 Not yet born
53 Tiny fly
54 Hit AMC crime drama starring
Bryan Cranston ... and what the words in the starred clues’ answers are doing, literally?
57 Ore. neighbor 59 “Correct”
60 Place confidence in 61 Mostly used-up pencil 62 Donkey
63 Appear to be
64 ETA predictor
DOWN
1 “___ be my pleasure!” 2 Chow mein alternative 3 First piece presented at a
trial
4 Headquartered (in) 5 Capital of Ghana 6 Capote, familiarly 7 Rowdy crowd
8 Belittled
9 Lowest point 10 “Toodle-oo!”
11 Special ___ (military
units)
12 Melted together
15 Up to, briefly
19 Nixed
21 Skillet, e.g.
23 Web address
24 Walk heavily
25 Fish popular in Filipino
cuisine
29 Bathroom bar 31 Kindergarten basics 32 Bundle of cash
33 “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” airer
35 Capital of Colombia 36 Lava lamp lump 37 Accommodating 38 Shared deep feelings 42 Inquire
43 Spotify categories 44 “Suppose so” 45 Charlotte, Emily
or Anne of literature 46 Chicago airport
code
47 Benghazi’s land 48 Ear-to-ear smiles 49 Gather
50 Inflicted upon
52 ___ out a victory 55 Exam for some college
srs.
56 Mooch, as a cigarette 58 Core group?