UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Born and raised in
5 Winter hrs. in Georgia
8 “Llama Llama Misses ___” (children’s book)
12 Soda paired with
40-Down
13 Oscar-winning song in “Slumdog Millionaire”
15 Big-screen movie format
16 Astronomer Sagan
17 Apply to
18 Abstainer’s portion
19 Table, for one
22 All, for one
23 Apple MP3 player
25 Cheer syllable
26 Nickname for Theresa
29 President of Panem in “The Hunger Games”
30 Monolithic human statues on a Polynesian island
32 “Run ___ now”
34 ___ Vegas
37 Attacks with snowballs
38 I, for one
41 City map lines: Abbr.
42 Add together
43 Suitable
44 Two, for one
47 Ice cream drink
49 Mixologist’s place
50 Himalayan humanoids
53 Fat in much tamale dough
54 Hagar the Horrible’s wife
56 What a falling-out causes
57 Opposed to
58 Like millennials, vis-a-vis Gen Zers
59 “Insecure” star Rae
60 Filipino or Mexican currency
61 Woodland clearing
62 British school since 1440
DOWN
1 TV watchdog org.
2 “Hit the ___ Jack” (Ray Charles classic)
3 Vegetable in bhindi masala and gumbo
4 Results of excessive stress
5 It follows Lent
6 GMC pickup truck 7 However
8 Revolutionary War figures
9 Love, in Las Palmas
10 Lion’s hair
11 Big name in body spray
13 Righteous
14 A single time
20 Its last letter stands for “defibrillator”
21 Explosive letters
23 Bay or sound
24 Sore losers
27 Harry Styles, after the breakup of One Direction
28 Stopped slouching
29 Drains of energy 31 “___ She Lovely”
(Stevie Wonder hit)
33 “You understand?”
34 Bane of a dawdling student’s existence
35 Hawkeye Pierce’s portrayer on “M*A*S*H”
36 Spent an extravagant amount
37 Pay a quick visit
39 Cartoonish eating syllable
40 Liquor paired with
12-Across
45 Traffic report source
46 Strange and scary
47 Dog door, essentially
48 Swim meet division?
51 “Should that be the case ...”
52 Extreme devotee, slangily
54 Go whole ___
55 Is for you?