UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Explosion sound
5 Honey drink
9 50, for 100
13 Person with a line of credit? 18 Thomas of soul
19 Org. that fights for rights 20 Jai ___
21 Replay speed
22 Glass vessel with disappointing results? (note what letter 4 was before the constructor changed it)
26 Less tainted
27 Friendly ape
28 Kind of committee
29 Like many high schoolers 31 Slogan for soccer star David’s glue ad? (letter 2)
35 Conducive to mold
39 Born as
40 Sudden growth
41 Creative thoughts
43 Evil org. in 007 novels
48 Friend, in Paris
49 Pearl in bubble tea
53 Flavor crystals mixed into Spock’s water and such? (letter 8) 56 Faddish workout bike
58 Claim
59 His paintings have points 61 Revealed a secret about 62 Sunday paper stuffers
65 Acid neutralizer’s past usage? (letter 1)
68 Debate squad
70 Warmth
71 Particle from placing a dairy product in an atom smasher? (letter 5)
78 You don’t want to see it strike 84 III
85 Torch holder on a wall
88 Get in the way
89 How some voices are raised 92 Crime of falsifying a negative
particle? (letter 6)
95 Equine sport
96 “___ Miz”
98 Reduce
99 Thanks, in French
100 “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
host Tyler
102 Slippery fish
104 End for “clear” or “misty”
105 Acidity measure used when testing holy water? (letter 1) 114 Chamomile drink, perhaps 115 Be overwhelmed by work 116 Warfare
121 Assumed name
122 Positive particle procession? (letter 9; now read all the original letters in order)
126 Dreaded note on a paper
127 Polish, as a paper
128 Ruler length
129 ___ St. Vincent Millay
130 Finish by
131 Finished 132 Fancy party 133 Close by
DOWN
1 Lettuce type
2 Cookie that had a Peeps flavor 3 Where Muscat is
4 Shark with a Maori name 5 Brownish red
6 Prefix for “friendly”
7 ’80s TV alien
8 Burj Khalifa’s city
9 Capital of Vietnam
10 Smart ___ (wise guys)
11 Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s field 12 Possible part of a secret handshake
13 Characteristic
14 Metallic sound
15 Synagogue text
16 Final Greek letter
17 Composer Ned
23 Recede
24 Home security letters
25 UPS competitor
30 Unsettling
32 Loch of legend
33 Audition tape
34 Clean air org.
35 Prima donnas 36 Full-price ticket category 37 ___ Yello
38 Hoosier NBA player
42 Herb in stuffing
44 Chi-Town trains
45 Regret
46 Bump, as a toe
47 Heracles’ leader?
49 Round in the ring
50 Name that sounds like a car 51 Dutch South African 52 Raggedy doll
54 “Cool beans”
55 Pageant garment
57 Part of UCLA
60 Readied for a golf shot 63 Rapper/activist Mos ___
64 ___ Club (Costco alternative) 66 Yes, in anime
67 Call when a shot doesn’t miss 69 Cursor controllers
71 Swab with cotton
72 “Yeah ... pass”
73 Desertified sea
74 Nevada casino haven
75 Party barrel
76 Lie around
77 Joint between the ankle and hip
79 Radio band letters
80 Shopping frenzy 81 Reacting to onions
82 Elicit
83 Completely changed 86 Includes on an email 87 Space visitors, for short 90 Top group
91 Molded differently
93 Coral wonder
94 Force felt on Earth, briefly 97 Doe’s pronoun
100 Kit with paints and such
101 Buzz of Apollo 11
103 Track down
105 Terrible twos, for one
106 ___ of Troy
107 Like much fair fare
108 President who wrote “A
Promised Land”
109 Speak like 108-Down
110 Uploaded content acronym
(hidden in “craft vodka”)
111 Palindromic sheep
112 Switch type
113 Point to connect
117 Appearance
118 “That doesn’t ___ well ...”
119 Kendrick of “Pitch Perfect” 120 Pre-1917 ruler
123 Hullabaloo
124 Enemy
125 Basic bed