UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Perfume ingredient 5 “Wish” protagonist whose name is hidden in “sea shanty”

9 Throw lightly 13 Lingering pleasant

feeling

15 Five dozen

16 “Yas, queen!”

17 See 23-Across 18 123-45-6789 isn’t one:

Abbr.

19 Sojourner Truth’s “___ I a

Woman?”

20 Ear-y?

21 Route to the Old West 23 Ad ___ (“To the stars,” in

17-Across)

26 Nosy person

27 Lead-in to “Kim,” “Jon”

or “Wayne”

29 Kilt folds

31 Coop dweller

32 Indian title from

Sanskrit

33 Pare, as a pear

34 Soulful British pop

star

36 Connect

37 Novelist Deighton 38 Journalist ___ B. Wells 39 Marital partner 41 Mini-albums, for

short

42 One may be set for 8 a.m. 44 Colorado ski town 45 Vague, supernatural,

tingly intuition 48 Fuming

49 Greek war god 50 “Special” brownie

ingredient, briefly 53 Super ___ Bros.

54 She plays the quiz lady in

“Quiz Lady”

56 Pigpens

57 Meeting in the middle? 58 Obtains

59 Word before “buckets” or

“cow”

60 “Now it’s clear”

DOWN

1 No. 24 who was a 24-time MLB All-star

2 Space force transports? 3 Shock

4 Barrel with a tap 5 Texas A&M athlete 6 Arm rests?

7 Dr. Seuss book with the line “A person’s a person, no matter how small” 8 Leather punch 9 Princess topper 10 Beefy bowlful

11 Maya Angelou poem of hope and resilience 12 “Brief,” for “short”: Abbr. 14 Give a vocal warning, as a lion

15 Noisily drink 20 Makes amends 21 Mouthy?

22 French for “Christmas” 23 Classic American pie type

24 Catches up on Z’s, perhaps

25 “Kurt smells like ___” (bit of graffiti that inspired a Nirvana hit)

28 Summer fabric 30 Explored the Great Lakes, say 35 Turning point of WWII

36 San ___ (city in Silicon Valley)

40 Former Volkswagen sedan

42 “Hasta luego” 43 Germany’s first female chancellor 46 Cornell and Yale, e.g.

47 Full of gossip

50 Pope with an aptsounding name

51 “I’ll buy this round!” 52 Wrapping paper sticker? 53 Umami enhancement letters 54 German’s “Oh!”

55 Org. concerned with domestic threats