South China Morning Post

Universal Crossword

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Across 1

4

Weep

Glass item near a cash register

10 Where Farsi is spoken 14 “I didn’t need to know

that,” in a text

15 Organism measured

in micrometre­s

16 Prefix with “store”

or “mall”

17 “There’s a mouse!”

18 Overtaking first baseman McGwire on the freeway?

20 Sat at a distillery

22 Boba ___ (“Star Wars”

character)

23 Indian dough?

24 Nonsense singing

syllables

26 Became tight

27 Leaving computer scientist Hopper in awe?

31 Ebbed

32 Dollar or Budget

alternativ­e

33 Adjacent over

hypotenuse, in trig

36 Beers that may be pale 37 Voyager 1, for one

38 Juice measuremen­t? 39 Affirmativ­e

40 Skewered food

41 In a way, slangily

42 Photograph­ing TV

personalit­y Jones?

44 Mykonos’ sea

47 Marketing experiment with two versions of something 48 Operate, as an old

car window

49 Greiner of “Shark

Tank”

52 Prefix with “freeze”

or “virus”

53 Putting actor

Hader up?

56 Raucous ruckus

57 Rare alternativ­e to

heads or tails

58 Tolerated

59 Genre for The AllAmerica­n Rejects 60 Palindromi­c feat

61 Stately horses

62 Plotters’ location

Down

1 Leave secretivel­y

2 He’s no alpha

3 Right-hand areas of

some roads

4 Spigot

5 “Your work is

ingenious!”

6 With 13-down, sit for

a photo sans clothing 7 “Surely you ___!”

8 Somewhat

9 Went fast on a

treadmill

10 Protected by

inoculatio­n

11 Harvests

12 Say “Fine by me”

13 See 6-down

19 ___-Roman wrestling 21 Bewilders

25 Container cover

26 Like a house cat but

not a lion 28 Greta of “Grand

Hotel”

29 Say “I told you so!”

30 Torah reader

33 Vied

34 Truly ancient

35 Begin criticisin­g

37 Menial worker

38 View from a lookout 40 Tan relative

41 Soviet intelligen­ce

org.

42 Intuited

43 Aced

44 Had sore muscles

45 Slowly crumble

46 Measuring instrument 49 Initials that are

missing a Q

50 Award related

to a Tony

51 Merry-go-round, e.g. 54 “King’s Disease”

rapper

55 Mormons, briefly

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