UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Willing to do
6 Is indebted to
10 One may have soft arms 14 Minor altercation
18 “SNL” producer Michaels 19 See 115-Down
20 Came up
22 Continental currency 23 Money doesn’t grow on them 24 Half a sextet
25 French word of gratitude 26 Advanced degs. for some painters
27 Sandwich with corned beef and sauerkraut
29 “My treat!”
31 Pranksters’ presents
33 Putting two and two together? 35 Demeter’s daughter
38 “We’re through!”
40 Apt rhyme of “crude” 41 Exchanged
44 Style for a research paper, often (Abbr.)
46 Naked
47 Half a Hawaiian fish
49 Lion group
50 “Summertime Sadness” singer 54 Like an upright crate
56 Digitize
57 Oklahoma city
58 You may clap after one at a jazz club
59 Word with “shish”
61 First-aid expert, briefly 62 Given the current situation 64 Strict precision
67 Wheat type
69 Had a rest
71 Forty-___ (Gold Rush figure) 73 Shows the way
77 Married again
79 Gossip mag topic
81 Kind of acid in lemonade 82 Elected representative, slangily 85 Some Muslim mystics 87 Notion
89 Island in the Dutch Caribbean 90 Marital vows
92 Theorize
94 Parka place
96 Namely
98 Kitchen gadget brand 99 Prefix with “morph” or “plasm” 100 There are typically 40 in a
working wk.
101 “Am so!” comeback
103 Have an inclination
105 Roof tile
108 Aristocrat’s social asset
111 Certify, as a college
114 Like arteries and veins
116 Doorway curve
118 Raspy
119 Rights org.
120 Soiled
123 Bass and Chimay brews
125 Share a view
126 Fuss
127 Call to mind
128 Disappointing stocking find 129 ___ “Milkman” Dead III (“Song of Solomon” protagonist) 130 Wrapper’s need
131 God whose name anagrams to that of a romantic flower 132 Countercurrent
133 Reconsiders, editorially
DOWN
1 Extremely, informally 2 Scrutinized, with “over”
3 “Oh, yeah? You’re just in denial!” and such?
4 In any way, shape or form 5 Puts back to the defaults 6 Choose
7 Fact-checker’s cause?
8 Activist Brockovich
9 Walk heavily
10 “Dancing With a Stranger” singer Smith
11 Mined resource
12 Bronze bust?
13 BMI rival
14 Many graduate courses 15 Breakfast in a clear liquid diet? 16 “I smell ___!”
17 Discard
21 Number that shares a key with *
28 Weeping mother of mythology
30 Slithery fish
32 Trail mix
34 Shapes with no corners 36 San ___, Italy
37 Posh
39 Catch with a rod
42 Dutch cheese
43 Bad impression?
44 Vow locale
45 Stop temporarily
48 Ready to bloom
51 John Jacob ___
52 Speakers’ platforms
53 Like some poses
55 Greek column style 60 Interment
63 Make certain, as a victory 65 Number that shares a key with !
66 Object at a shrine, perhaps 68 Parisian transit option 70 Crusoe creator
72 Makes over
74 Routed a Houston college? 75 Rome’s river
76 Improvises vocally
78 Panicky feeling that all your data is gone?
80 “This Hawaiian road is coming to an end!”?
82 Gyro holder
83 Reason to take out the trash 84 Berth that isn’t as high up? 86 Command to an attack dog 88 Upper house? 91 Undemanding job
93 Vocal quality
95 Shell that can function as a horn 97 Vegan protein
102 Squiggly diacritic
104 Genetic material
106 Brides’ partners, often
107 Accept with enthusiasm
109 Unsophisticated
110 Go over in art class
112 “This ___ a test”
113 Future twentysomethings
114 Great in extent
115 With 19-Across, role-play
117 Chunk of turf
121 Possible boxing outcome,
briefly
122 Word that may make you a fiancee
124 Foxlike