Universal Crossword December 29, 2024 Answers

1. Girl, in Spanish 6. Fuel additive brand 9. Waiting eagerly 13. Fixtures for body-raising exercises 15. Seized auto 16. Pass idly 17. Be deserving of 18. Titus in the WWE Hall of Fame 19. Baby bloomer? 20. How ham may be served 21. Cheek 22. High-performance auto 24. Peach center 26. "Wanna ___?" 27. Limon who wrote "The End of Poetry" 30. Just adorable 36. "True" 37. Think to remember something 38. "___ sells seashells ..." 39. Early-morning moisture 40. Word between surnames 41. Test prep book, e.g. 45. Tilling disturbs it 49. Cast a ballot 51. "Slippery" tree 52. Escape artist Houdini 53. Modern checkout device 54. Mudpuppy or newt 56. ___ over backward (try hard) 57. "Can I say something now?" 58. Swirl in a stream 59. AOL alternative 60. Piece of an apple ... or apple pie

1. Nation below Mongolia 2. Crawls under the bed, maybe 3. Being argued about 4. Cherry-pick 5. An orangutan is a great one 6. Cut into pieces, as lumber 7. Athlete who tempts other teams 8. Apt homophone of "sci" 9. Game site 10. Transmission proportion 11. Grand Ole ___ 12. No longer there 13. Bus. budget overseers 14. Hindu gentleman's title 20. Increase eightfold 22. Cooked, as bao or broccoli 23. Corporate facelift 25. "That one's no good" 28. "I ___ believe you!" 29. Pre-deal poker payment 30. $$$ dispensers 31. Russia : tsar :: Iran : ___ 32. Means of elevating a common dessert? 33. Length of many officials' terms 34. ___ Antonio, Texas 35. Australian singer with the 2019 hit "Dance Monkey" 42. Chemise 43. Kind of wrench 44. "Possibly" 46. Surgeon, casually 47. Adler in Sherlock Holmes stories 48. Instrument whose name sounds like a dishonest person 49. Vague feeling 50. Take in the paper? 52. Schlep 54. Former USWNT star Mewis 55. Dec. and Jan.