UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

All the Right Angles by Wayne Harris, edited by David Steinberg ACROSS

1 Like the highest

degree

4 “___ the Explorer” 8 Name before “lemon,” in

an activewear brand 12 Nays’ opposites

14 “That’s my cue!”

15 Does some modeling 16 A-lister

18 Sports or concert

venue

19 *Urban intersection

boundaries

21 PC’s “Get me outta

here!” key

22 Get an F

23 Expects that one

will

27 When woolly mammoths

roamed the Earth

31 In ___ land (spacey) 32 *+++

35 Big primate 36 Renaissance ___

(historical reenactment) 37 Chinese zodiac

rodent

38 *First letters of Lima

and Lisbon, aptly 41 Lavish party

42 Sharing a common

culture

43 Naive

46 Iowa college town

48 ___ de cologne 49 Temperature on a hot day, or a hint to the starred clues’ answers and each black square arrangement in the grid 55 Word after “man” or

“picky”

56 Underlying reason 58 Bill collectors? 59 Golden Rule

preposition 60 Breakfast-in-bed

surface

61 One who has your

back

62 Rounded hammer

end

63 Caustic cleanser

DOWN

1 The Big Apple, briefly 2 Summer tops

3 Come to a stop

4 Straight to the point 5 Neglect to mention 6 Campus military org 7 “Don’t give me ___ your

lip!”

8 Rhine siren who inspired

Sylvia Plath

9 Product consumer

10 It helps you focus 11 “Born in the ___”

(Springsteen anthem) 13 Sister and sometime rival

of Venus 15 Loses one’s cool 17 Nickname similar

to Beth

20 Confident poker

player’s move

23 Finish second at

Belmont

24 Gently splash

against

25 Hebrew alphabet

starter

26 Iridescent gem 28 Concur

29 Pesky flyers

30 ___ Park, Colorado 33 Start of many rap

names

34 Major in astronomy? 36 Aspect

39 In a silly way 40 Kitchen gizmos

that ding

41 Well-versed in a

language

44 Normandy or Aragon 45 Root for a luau 47 Pancake topper 49 Execute perfectly 50 “___ never fly!” 51 Copenhagen resident 52 Major addition? 53 Countess’s counterpart 54 Kill it at a comedy

club

55 Letter after zeta 57 Retina’s organ