UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Notes (down)

5 Coming-out words

10 Animal that brays

13 Inexplicably off base: Abbr.

14 “Shrek the Musical” ogress

15 Applaud

16 “This is MAJOR trouble for us!”

18 NATO leader?

19 They catch waves

20 Brody of “The Darjeeling Limited”

22 D.C. figures

23 Aaron Rodgers’ NFL team, for short

24 Send into action

27 Feathery scarves

28 Safe Drinking Water Act org.

30 Dazzling effect

31 Tie up

32 Word before “history” or “hygiene”

33 Winning entry in a 2016 online poll to name a British research vessel

36 ___ Reader (digital digest)

37 Knee tear sites, casually

38 In pursuit of

39 Small child

40 “Ah, makes sense”

41 Experiment with acid, say?

42 Used a certain

ride-booking app

44 Bear who says “Oh, bother” 45 Catastrophically collapse

46 Amazon sales event

50 To-do ___

51 “Hasta la vista, friend!”

53 On the ocean

54 Past, present or future

55 Wild way to run

56 Since Jan. 1

57 Sporting a sleeve, say

58 Wooden pins

DOWN

1 “Star Wars” scavenger

2 Wilson of “The

Darjeeling Limited”

3 Wrongful act

4 Ignore the alarm

5 “Wouldn’t it be nice ...”

6 King in a touching story?

7 Departs

8 Actress Gasteyer

9 “... you get the picture”

10 Ask “Who? What? When? Where? Why?,” say

11 Judgment-free zones

12 Extend across

15 Give a darn

17 Stuck-up

21 Plays tunes at a wedding, perhaps

23 Taboos for a

39-Across

24 Coming-out

25 Many a national park visitor 26 Like a diet filled with Impossible things to eat

27 Job title?

29 Warn

31 Secretly included on an email

32 Like an uncharted location

34 Luxury Italian auto 35 Microsoft typeface named for a Washington peak

40 Outrage

41 Self-confident

43 ___ James (1993 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee)

44 Poetry’s counterpart 45 Surface for some tennis courts

46 Color on the

transgender flag

47 Thinnest U.S. coin

48 Like an eager beaver

49 Talks and talks and talks

52 Bear’s home