UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD |“UNIVERSAL FREESTYLE 18”, BY BILLY BRATTON

ACROSS

1 What a hole in a lid is for

6 Sour

10 Prepare to throw a beanbag

13 Spanish for “I love you”

14 Moisturizer ingredient

15 Vessels with pedestals

16 Grown-up’s playful side

18 Fender blemish

19 Doesn’t hold back

20 He’s close to the Edge

21 Otherworldly beings, briefly

22 Number for a pair?

23 “A ___ Blast That Lasts” (breath spray slogan)

25 Gamer’s vowelless verb

26 Nourished

27 ___ + blue = purple

28 Strumming sessions 32 Phenomenon in which many people misremember something

33 Spoke convincingly

34 “I Like ___”

35 Try to win over

36 Borzoi sound

37 Speed Stick deodorant maker

39 Walk back and forth 41 About 20-25% of sleep: Abbr.

44 Ticket leftover

45 Beyond cool?

47 “Stop stalling!”

48 Defiant response to a vague threat

49 Women with habits

50 Apply blacktop to

51 Rental document

52 Dined 53 Nonbinary pronoun 54 Bad words?

DOWN

1 Subway entrance

2 Palindromic principle

3 Angry speeches

4 City in central Iowa

5 Term abbreviated at the start of many addresses

6 Lake in the Sierras

7 Elite group of stars

8 Play part

9 Conference where Chimamanda Adichie gave the talk “The Danger of a Single Story”

10 Music style named for a large venue

11 Not guilty

12 Winter hrs. in Utah

15 Shabu-shabu

noodle, perhaps

17 Had trust in

20 Says goodbye

23 Meaty foods to eat on Tuesday, maybe 24 TV plugs, e.g.?

25 Genre that inspired emo

26 Run away

28 Female friend celebrated on February 13

29 Highest male voice

30 Cheer syllable

31 ___-help book

32 Kisses passionately

33 Name within “Mortimer”

38 “Dang it!”

39 “Pet” annoyance

40 Bowling night hangout

41 2006 hit for Amy Winehouse

42 Delete

43 Lodging that may be L-shaped

45 Surfer dude

46 Two, in Berlin

47 “I got loyalty, got royalty inside my ___” (Kendrick Lamar)

48 Elect (to)