UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Unadorned
5 Flex
9 Flourish
14 First fratricide
victim
15 It’s spiky yet soothing 16 Author Ingalls Wilder 17 One running in
fashionable circles 19 Complete and total 20 Interrogate
Zuckerberg?
22 “I can’t ___ that!” (response to a gross image)
23 Ray guns’ rays, maybe 27 Newsroom VIPS 28 Leprechaun who’s a
cereal mascot
30 Corp. head honcho 31 Daring poker
statement
34 Tear transmitters 36 With 37-Across, hugely
inflate price estimates? 37 See 36-Across 39 Mothers’ sisters 40 Mollusk often served in a
white wine sauce 41 Letters before a
pseudonym
42 Tissue layers
44 Clean Air Act org. 47 Cherished
50 Deck with wands 52 Send along Kirk x Spock
fanfic, say?
55 Measured poker
statement
58 Infiltrate, as a spy 59 Righteous
60 They may be long on the
underdog
61 Father of 14-Across 62 63-Across and others 63 Ogden who wrote, “The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk”
64 Shoe part, or a fish
DOWN
1 From a region on Spain’s
border
2 Teem
3 Music played as the
clergy exit
4 Renee ___ Goldsberry 5 Indonesian island
6 “Call Me by Your Name”
protagonist
7 Like a bully
8 Decree to pass muster 9 Book jacket summary 10 “I love you a ___”
(Hanukkah card pun) 11 Openly queer
12 Mine material 13 Damage
18 Put away some
groceries? 21 ___ which way 24 Gradually speeding up, in
music
25 New York baseball
players
26 ...---...
28 Short, informally 29 Application
32 Place to get stuck 33 Six-pack components 34 MS-___
35 Tribe for which a Western state is named
36 Ellington of jazz
37 “___ pasa?”
38 Naval letters 39 Vocalization at the
dentist’s
40 ___ rights (suspect’s
protections)
42 Part of rpm
43 Food writer Nigella 45 Part of USPS
46 Not out and about
48 C sharp, by another
name
49 Barbie and G.I. Joe 50 Reproachful sound 51 Secret identity
53 Scarlet and vermilion 54 Crush, as hopes
55 Little devil
56 Dove call
57 Verb that sounds like its
second letter