Universal Crossword December 29, 2025 Answers

1. Restaurant mishap 6. Cabbage dish 10. Placement of "Popular" in "Wicked" 14. Bert's pal 15. Jewish wedding dance 16. Moderate gait 17. Disoriented (In this answer, note letters 4-7) 19. Tie up 20. Pullup muscle, briefly 21. Gasteyer of "Mean Girls" 22. "Darn it!" 23. Primary draw (... letters 3-6) 29. Refute 30. ___ carte 31. Corp. money manager 32. "The Taming of the ___" 35. A long time ___ 36. Uncertainties 37. Something under debate (... letters 8-11) 42. Chapel Hill sch. 43. Letter between phi and psi 44. Denounces 45. Target of a knee MRI 46. "I'm not impressed" 47. Leatherworking tools 49. Dr. Seuss book whose main character wears a red bow tie (... letters 5-8) 54. One may be raised by the Amish 55. Consumed 58. "Othello" antagonist 59. Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, and a description of this crossword? 63. Certain coffee pod 64. Apple product since 1998 65. Bete ___ 66. Barely manages, with "out" 67. Dance in a pit 68. Having a body mass index over 30

1. Order in a bear market 2. Pebble Beach event 3. Popular photo app, familiarly 4. On fire 5. Fragrant necklace 6. Hut 7. Lite 8. Certain queer identity, for short 9. "___ more, bark less" 10. Turn on offense in baseball 11. Quibble 12. Eliciting a "Yippee!" reaction 13. "___ be my pleasure" 18. High-carb Indian food 22. Color TV pioneer 24. Day to beware 25. Type of salamander 26. Ravi Shankar tune 27. Boatloads 28. Proboscises 32. Catcher's stance 33. "The ___ of Notre Dame" 34. Place to find a former college baseball player playing softball 35. Grammy winner DiFranco 38. Body Count vocalist 39. "Fancy seeing you here!" 40. ___ threat 41. Merit badge location 46. Part of many superhero names 47. Affix 48. Stimulate, as an appetite 50. Farmer's offerings 51. Some free babysitters 52. "It's the Hard-Knock Life" musical 53. Layers 57. Ancestry diagram shape 58. 1950s prez 59. NBA great Duncan 60. Lead-in to a point of view in a text 61. Game with Skip cards 62. What burglars do