UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 The “N” of NHL: Abbr.
5 “Black Adam” co-star Hodge
10 Animal on a milk carton, maybe
13 Tennis great Arthur
14 ___ lips sink ships
15 “Bo-oring”
16 Frozen treats
17 Blacksmith’s block
18 Croatian currency since 2023
19 Small screen release?
22 Sporty Ford discontinued in ’05
23 Occupied
25 Homer Simpson Backs Into Bushes and others
30 Food with kernels
33 Desensitizes
34 Flying start?
35 Reddit sesh with an expert
36 Also
37 Cry loudly
38 Bear whose bed was too hard
40 Breakfast dish with hollandaise, slangily
42 Italian volcano
43 Went from first to second, in a way
46 Cost of a commercial
47 Invigorate
50 Twirling fad toy, and a hint to the word scrambled within 19-, 25- and 43-Across
55 Mix ingredients
57 Get hitched hastily
58 Blues singer James
59 Eggplant ___ (cheesy dish, casually)
60 Spanish for “to be”
61 Lit part of a candle
62 Chopping tool: Var.
63 Appears to be
64 Blackthorn fruit
DOWN
1 Hammer’s target
2 Broad neck scarf
3 “Dawson’s Creek” network
4 Like many characters in “The L Word,” aptly
5 Disney movie with a magic carpet
6 Yearn (for)
7 Bird with an olive branch
8 “Sure about that?”
9 Photos enabled by front-facing cameras
10 Most like a klutz
11 Boathouse pole
12 “Do you know ___ I am?”
15 White whale
20 Large vase
21 Bernie Sanders’ affiliation, briefly
24 Actor Zac
26 Faded, like colors
27 There is no honor ___ thieves
28 Chophouse choice
29 Buckwheat noodle
30 “A League of Their Own” hats
31 Home of Nebraska’s Desert Dome
32 Like lightning round questions
39 Uphold
40 “You Should Be Dancing” group
41 Noisy little dogs
42 Channel whose BottomLine ticker shows scores
44 AFC Richmond coach Lasso
45 Camping gear co-op
48 “___ we meet again”
49 Chain with self-serve dog wash stations
51 “Will there be anything ___?”
52 Farmer’s market bag
53 “Hawaiian steak”
54 Fall gardening tool
55 Place for a peel
56 Overburden