UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
Stop It! by Greg Snitkin and Rafael Musa, edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Explosive for Wile E.
Coyote
4 Degree of difficulty? 7 Weed discard
11 What a chicken feels 12 My and his
13 Buzz ___ (“The
Simpsons” soft drink) 14 “Stop choosing such an easy Halloween costume every year!” 17 Cartoon explorer
18 TV drama spots 19 Difficult to tell apart 20 Outs’ counterparts 21 “___ to Joy”
22 Present day, for
short?
23 “Stop listening to
Taylor Swift’s lead single from ‘Lover’!” 27 “Bald” baby bird
28 Went down one’s face, as mascara
29 Behave
32 Key to getting ahead? 33 Mess (with)
34 Dog, in Spanish
36 Coffee alternative 37 Cartoon “devil,” familiarly
38 Hold inside
39 “Stop serving this small dish!”
43 Clammy 44 Have lunch, say 45 Cartoonish shriek 46 Santiago is its largest
city
48 Nonnative speaker’s
course, briefly
49 Golden State sch. that
Carol Burnett attended 50 “Stop eating this deli
meat!”
53 Raison d’___
54 Dubai’s nation, for short 55 Pizzas, e.g.
56 One of 28 in Monopoly 57 Great deal
58 They look good when
they’re ripped
DOWN
1 Outdoorsy sandal
brand
2 Scottish “no”
3 “Heck yeah!”
4 Vessels for making
soup
5 “Weird!”
6 “You wish!” 7 Ideological split in an
organization
8 Grabbed or nabbed 9 Otherwise
10 Yoga ___
11 Truck setting for going
uphill
14 Totally lost it
15 Fly, to a Venus flytrap 16 Glitz and ___
17 Break down, as food 21 Was in the red 22 Doctor’s inside image 24 Pub brew
25 Lost video connectivity,
as in a Zoom call 26 Hearing aid
components
30 In a makeshift way 31 Capital of Kansas 33 Waterproof covering 34 Sappho or Ocean
Vuong
35 Goddess hidden in
“apotheosis” 37 Punishment for a
child
38 Mexican dish with
a fried tortilla shell 40 Minced words? 41 Mineral once used as
baby powder
42 Exam
46 “Adorable!”
47 Employ
48 Garden of ___ 49 Four-stringed instruments, for short
50 Letters at the end of a
proof
51 Language spoken in
Vientiane
52 Bone that protects
internal organs