UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Past the deadline
5 “Just the opposite,” nonverbally
9 “The ___ is up!”
12 It might read “Happy Birthday!”
14 Soccer star Sullivan
15 Mountain lion
16 *Feline that enjoys the yard, say
18 “And make it snappy!”
19 To the ___ degree
20 Pesticide in a 1972 EPA ban
21 Whistler in the kitchen
23 Appear that way
25 Having three dimensions
27 *DEN and SEA, for two
30 Sauce made with chocolate and chiles
32 Taproom selections
33 Genre for Common and Noname
34 “Not in a million years!”
35 “2 funny”
36 Atlanta university
38 Mature, like fine wine
39 Sleeveless top, for short
40 Atlas pages
41 *Scarce
45 Get clean, with “up”
46 ___ crackers (s’mores ingredients)
50 “The Price Is Right” game
51 Like Alan Turing and Alvin Ailey
52 Veiled promise?
53 Curtain holders
54 Crafty press agent, or a hint to the word scrambled in each starred clue’s answer
58 Hockey Hall of Famer Willie
59 Voice actress Strong of “Rugrats”
60 Brazilian dance
61 More, in Spanish
62 Crunchy BBQ side dish
63 Skin treatment at a spa
DOWN
1 Detroit NFL team
2 Like sharp pain
3 Give to the church
4 “The Low ___ Theory” (A Tribe Called Quest album)
5 Bump on a toad
6 LLC relative 7 Confidentiality contract, for short
8 Give them a break!
9 The smallest amount
10 “You have my attention”
11 Look gobsmacked
13 Of the highest level, informally
15 Backyard cookout spot
17 Wrestling room stench
22 “... you get the gist”: Abbr.
24 Stallion or rooster
25 ___ Islands (country in Oceania)
26 Early tourney round
28 Buckingham ___
29 Secret stealer
30 Particularly large plants
31 Declares invalid
34 “Pass”
36 Early life forms?
37 Poet Angelou
39 Emceeing partners
42 Tightly packed
43 Vowelless cluck
44 “Zounds!”
47 “Another card, please”
48 Pueblo brick
49 Word before “compass” or “duty”
50 Teen’s big dance
51 Chew like a beaver
55 Buddy
56 Savings plan letters
57 Mushroom part that may be stuffed