UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
IN THE SOUP
ACROSS
1 Big name in chips
6 Enthusiast
10 Pike or perch
14 Trunk sculpture
15 Its state flag is not rectangular
16 “She’s a Lady” songwriter Paul
17 Voyages
18 “Star Trek” role played by Takei
19 Manipulator
20 Essence of some mushroom soups?
23 Language suffix
24 The “T” of NATO
25 Like a slightly pale borscht?
31 Maritime “Stop!”
32 Tennis great Monica
33 Word before “roaring” or “current”
36 Second start?
37 Jump the line
38 Blow a ___ (get really mad)
39 Conclude
40 Wilson of “The Office”
41 Kind of down
42 Vichyssoise vegetable chopped into five-sided pieces?
44 Words of clarification
47 It involves finger spelling: Abbr.
48 What a seafood soup with poorly prepared mollusks has?
54 Came down to earth
55 Rowers’ implements
56 Battling
58 Bigger than big
59 “Will do”
60 King Charles III’s started September 8, 2022
61 Tax form IDs
62 Gambling game with numbered balls
63 Outer boundaries
DOWN
1 Gomez Addams’ cousin
2 Societal standard
3 Destiny’s Child, e.g.
4 Strong coffee
5 Flips out
6 Pear also known as the Kaiser
7 “Nope!”
8 Converse competitor
9 Half of 28
10 Water tap
11 Photo-sharing app,
for short
12 Sport that uses a trap
13 Meghan’s partner
21 Author Deighton
22 Greek Mars
25 Feature of a giraffe and a lion
26 ___ the Terrible
27 Smooth in a woodshop
28 Astronaut’s wear
29 Health care insurer owned by CVS
30 Flashy jewelry
33 Hardly courtly
34 “Got it”
35 Fringe benefit
37 Feels the need to cover one’s eyes
38 Sliced into strips, as trout
40 Artist Magritte
41 Draw into a trap
42 Fusilli and vermicelli
43 Tree in the beech family
44 Mosque leaders
45 Stubbornness symbols
46 Ink online
49 Wax’s opposite
50 Sportscaster Andrews
51 On the subject of
52 Gulp from a flask
53 Like good advice
57 ER personnel