Universal Crossword September 21, 2025 Answers

1. Compelling feature of a novel, ideally 5. Second chance 9. Name hidden in "air mattress" 13. Wear down 14. App customer 15. One of a statistical trio 16. Symbols of peace 17. Person prone to giving props? 19. Cynthia Erivo, on Season 2 of "Poker Face" 21. ___ out (distributes) 22. Vocab-building class 23. Flat fish 24. Droop 26. Tic-___-toe 27. iPad accessory 29. Class-y Bong Joon Ho movie? 31. Quick and classic meal for a college student 33. Make full 36. Letters in a telecom company's URL 37. Trifling 38. "Prepare to be amazed!" 43. Chiles ___ (Mexican stuffed peppers) 44. Wipes out 48. Assent at sea 49. Michelle Obama, ___ Robinson 50. Noncommercial ad 51. 1/48 of a cup: Abbr. 52. Posers? 54. Online term for the offline world 57. %&*? or @#$! 59. "Not today, ___!" 60. Reddit forums 61. Nearly closed 62. Spew lava 63. Literary captain, or a cinematic fish 64. Jeans measurement 65. ___-Ball

1. French author who associated smell with memory 2. "Isn't She ___?" (Wonder classic) 3. Praising poems 4. Time to give it a shot! 5. Out of practice 6. "Puerto Rico ___ bien cabron" (Bad Bunny) 7. Start of many Christmas missives 8. End of Wikipedia's URL 9. Lead-in to a texter's viewpoint 10. When things happen 11. Classic song with the line "Watch out, boy, she'll chew you up" 12. Director's cry 13. Cylinder's pair 18. Rocker Winter 20. Sauciness 25. Subject of some criticism 28. Eldest von Trapp child 29. Trails 30. Polynesian country 32. Symbol in a text about Tuesday's dinner, perhaps 33. Graffiti artist's container 34. "How do we agree on so much?!" 35. Morse transmission 39. Imperfect or past 40. ___ Direction 41. Animal home in the board game Wingspan 42. They grow in meadows 45. Stone-faced figure, maybe 46. Get away 47. Wiped out 50. Father, in Spanish 53. Response to "Not true!" 55. Memorable periods 56. Word after "skate" or "South" 58. "Here's some money. Go see a 'Star ___.'" ("Arrested Development")