The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Universal Crossword
ACROSS 1
Flash in ___ pan
4 Wide-hipped
body shape
8 Fundamentals
12 Performs like Kendrick Lamar
14 Killer whale
15 Word before “circle” or “top”
16 Seven-time A.L. batting champ Rod
17 Building material for the Great Pyramid of Giza
19 Have your own bachelor pad, say
21 Entourage
22 Santa ___ (city in Orange County)
23 Owns
24 Received a
salary of
25 Golfer Garcia
27 Russian
ruler, once
29 Year, in
Yucatan
30 Ride a bike
31 Pool
exercises
32 Picnic pests
33 What separates 17-/19- or 52-/55-Across ... or a hint to the word bookending each of these answers 36 Alternative to
hahaha
39 Nonbinary person, in brief
40 Roast
44 She lived in
Eden
45 “Don’t follow
me”
46 City full of
gondolas
47 Guitarist
Santana
49 ___ Paulo
50 Piece of
legislation
51 Heart
chambers
52 Young child
55 “Strip That Down” singer
57 Marriage
site, often
58 Actress Loughlin of “Full House”
59 Senior’s
dance
60 Winter
transport
61 Tizzy
62 Authors
63 Palindromic name, or the middle of a palindromic word starting with “m”
DOWN
1 Newbie at
work
2 Archrival of
Yale
3 Fencer’s
heavy sword
4 Golfers’
attire
5 Ireland, in
poetry
6 Peak 7 Carly ___
Jepsen
8 Profession of
9-Down
9 Bond portrayer from 19952002
10 Permission
11 Skimpy
swimsuits
13 Source of many names from “The Lion King”
16 Necklace
fastener
18 Trade jabs
20 Southeast Asian language
24 Simplicity
26 Nerve
27 Striped cat
28 Agile
31 Musical
Horne
32 Similar (to)
34 NBA team that left New Jersey 35 Anatomical
rings
36 Automakers’
nightmares
37 Round of
applause
38 Luxury Italian
car
41 Flew, as a
plane
42 Anthem heard before a Maple Leafs game
43 More recent
45 Dial product
46 Large tub
48 Upper bound
49 Cherry
discards
52 Old stringed
instrument
53 Part of, as a
plot
54 Jazzy
Fitzgerald
56 Tinder, but
not tinder