UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Creative writing deg.
4 Ramen taste
9 Common January forecast
13 Pulling device with a rope
18 Chi-Town airport code
19 Trash can insert
20 Walk up a mountain, say
21 Aplenty
22 Supporting a New York publication?
25 United flight?
26 Attention to ___
27 About, on a memo
28 Locks of hair
29 Green salsa variety
30 One opposed to a Columbia publication?
34 Hematite, for one
35 Explorer called “the Red”
36 Prefix with god
37 “___ my pleasure!”
38 Occupies, as a rocker
41 Flaccid
44 Old Apple messaging app
47 Pore over a Boston publication?
51 Barbie’s partner
52 Saldana of “Guardians of the Galaxy”
55 Target of a skin care strip
56 Moved stealthily
58 Twitter handle component
60 ___ Crunch
62 Copacabana city, informally
65 Brit’s “Dear me!”
66 A drop can create one in a bucket
67 Like some eco-friendly boxes, or an alternate title for this puzzle?
71 MSNBC host Mitchell
72 Finish a walk?
73 What a gossip “spills”
74 He’s engaged to J.Lo
75 “That’s untrue!”
76 Playground chute
78 HS stress sources
80 Put on
81 Animation frame
83 Redact parts of a Baltimore publication?
89 Wine region north of Bordeaux
91 Teri of “Tootsie”
92 Power in old Hollywood?
93 Genre from Jamaica
95 R&B singer Erykah
98 Rapper Azalea
100 ___ Mae (Whoopi’s “Ghost” role)
101 Start reading an Orange County publication?
106 Really want
108 Antiguan-American novelist
Jamaica
109 Rant’s opposite
110 One sending a credit card
112 Yearly records
113 Chap who’s part of a London publication?
117 Ticks off
118 Soup or salad, often
119 Boring
120 Lithium-___ battery
121 Specks of land
122 Pleased
123 Low on patience
124 Grp. with full-body scanners
DOWN
1 Black Friday crowd, seemingly
2 Composer Chopin
3 Abide by
4 Radii neighbors
5 Medium-length skirt
6 Feature of a buck
7 So-so
8 Wrath
9 Like a new penny
10 Biblical hunter
11 Michael of “Caddyshack”
12 Director Anderson
13 Polishes, as a Porsche
14 Classic excuse for missing homework
15 Greets silently
16 Vinegar bottles
17 “Siddhartha” author
21 Richard of “Pretty Woman”
23 “___ be an honor”
24 Apple CEO Cook
28 Like a book with many pages
29 Evian competitor
31 Blue or White African river
32 Juul, e.g.
33 “You overshared,” in texts
35 ___’acte
39 Evening meals
40 Sturdy enclosure for an estate’s grounds
42 Org. for New York City FC
43 German shepherd, often
45 Caught wind of
46 Strong dislike
48 Wonder Woman, for one
49 Otherwise engaged
50 Pass, like a law
52 Nada
53 Looked at rudely
54 Part of DOE (Abbr.)
57 Selina ___ (Catwoman’s alter ego)
59 Fewer and farther between 60 Division of a long poem
61 Contribute
63 Holy terrors
64 Toothbrush brand
67 ___ of honor
68 Assigned stars to
69 Diabolical
70 Montana-to-Minnesota direction
77 Drop-off guess, briefly
79 J.D. holder
82 Like brains or ears
84 “Pics ___ didn’t happen!”
85 Craving
86 Very done with something
87 Fruit of the Loom brand for kids
88 Tidy
89 Dad’s refuge, maybe
90 Expensive gift for a teen
93 Backbones
94 Place to retrieve a retriever
96 Throw off track
97 South Sudan neighbor
99 Deep sorrows
101 “African unicorn”
102 Dead men tell no ___
103 Tabby’s “Back off!”
104 Vine-covered
105 Cory Booker, e.g. (Abbr.)
106 Former CBS spinoff set in the
Big Apple
107 Sharing possessive
111 Obscene writing
113 Food additive letters
114 Wile E. Coyote’s explosive
115 Tilling tool
116 Cellular messenger