South China Morning Post

Universal Crossword

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Across

1 Broad bean variety

5 “I’m in no mood for your ‘tude”

15 Ellie’s character in “The Office”

16 Inbox-induced breathing phenomenon

17 Maternity ___ (hospital area)

18 Machines with low stakes

19 “Money can’t ___ happiness”

20 Battery terminal

21 “Come From ___” (musical)

22 Flies like an eagle

24 Jimmy V Award, for one

26 Roast remark

28 Miss, in Monterrey: Abbr.

29 Smokey Bear ad, e.g.

32 Maximally lite

33 Taxi

34 Sabermetri­cs subj.

36 Exchanges blows

37 DiFranco who sang

“You Had Time”

38 Doctor’s “Open up!”

39 Core belief

40 “The Matrix” hero

41 “You matter to me!”

42 Donkey

43 In the distance

45 Bat boxes

46 Small wire nail

47 Kravitz who sang “Again”

48 Bombeck who said “Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died”

51 Metric weights, informally

53 Particle such as F-

55 After-work hockey organisati­on, perhaps

57 Burrito add-on, for short

59 Container whose last word surrounds its first

60 “House Hunters” network

61 Tested the strength of connection­s?

62 Water testers?

Down

1 Not many

2 Part of UAE

3 Computer security measures

4 Snarky “Have we met?”

5 Head out

6 Signs of the future

7 Former small iPod

8 Match info?

9 Most cunning

10 Some batteries

11 Spread, as your fingers

12 Nor’easter precipitat­ion

13 Company that owns Facebook

14 Simple

23 Outstandin­g athlete

25 ___ project (piece of work that you love)

26 13-down app for sharing pics

27 Casual refusals

28 More reasonable

29 Kind of phone plan 30 Onset

31 Fire remnants

33 Ketchup chips, toques and the like

35 Tuesday evening, for some foodies

44 It might make you seem older

45 Mail again

46 Intrude, with “in”

47 Brother of Huey and Dewey

48 Recedes

49 ___ the rewards

50 “You have never talked to a ___ mortal” (C.S. Lewis)

52 Initialism associated with a rainbow flag

54 ___ the Great (“Ted Lasso” nickname)

56 Young fellow

58 Store whose receipts have inspired Halloween costumes

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