UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Unadorned
5 Flex
9 Flourish
14 First fratricide victim
15 It’s spiky yet soothing
16 Author Ingalls Wilder
17 One running in fashionable circles
19 Complete and total
20 Interrogate Zuckerberg?
22 “I can’t ___ that!” (response to a gross image)
23 Ray guns’ rays, maybe
27 Newsroom VIPs
28 Leprechaun who’s a cereal mascot
30 Corp. head honcho
31 Daring poker statement
34 Tear transmitters
36 With
37-Across, hugely inflate price estimates?
37 See 36-Across
39 Mothers’ sisters
40 Mollusk often served in a white wine sauce
41 Letters before a pseudonym
42 Tissue layers
44 Clean Air Act org.
47 Cherished
50 Deck with wands
52 Send along Kirk x Spock fanfic, say?
55 Measured poker statement
58 Infiltrate, as a spy
59 Righteous
60 They may be long on the underdog
61 Father of 14-Across
62 63-Across and others
63 Ogden who wrote, “The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk”
64 Shoe part, or a fish
DOWN
1 From a region on Spain’s border
2 Teem
3 Music played as the clergy exit
4 Renee ___ Goldsberry
5 Indonesian island
6 “Call Me by Your Name” protagonist
7 Like a bully
8 Decree to pass muster
9 Book jacket summary
10 “I love you a ___” (Hanukkah card pun)
11 Openly queer
12 Mine material
13 Damage
18 Put away some groceries?
21 ___ which way
24 Gradually speeding up, in music
25 New York baseball players
26...---...
28 Short, informally
29 Application
32 Place to get stuck
33 Six-pack components
34 MS-___
35 Tribe for which a Western state is named
36 Ellington of jazz
37 “___ pasa?”
38 Naval letters
39 Vocalization at the dentist’s
40 ___ rights (suspect’s protections)
42 Part of rpm
43 Food writer Nigella
45 Part of USPS
46 Not out and about
48 C sharp, by another name
49 Barbie and G.I. Joe
50 Reproachful sound
51 Secret identity
53 Scarlet and vermilion
54 Crush, as hopes
55 Little devil
56 Dove call
57 Verb that sounds like
its second letter