UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD OO7 By Steven E. Atwood, edited By David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Crow’s nest support
5 Series of picture riddle books 9 Do taxing tasks
13 Senate hearing channel 18 Second stage at a theater? 20 Hawaiian food crop
21 “Go back one step” command 22 Viola’s lower relative
23 Leave the mall before becoming completely exhausted?
26 Provide gear for
27 Title of respect
28 Complete obscurity
29 Running back’s dive, say 30 Elastic fabric
32 Stairway with enough headroom for a tall person? 37 Ho-hum
38 Dusting cloths
40 More extensive
41 Fish get caught in them 42 Harvest goddess
44 :, in an analogy
46 “Measure twice, cut once,” e.g. 48 The one that got away? 50 Airline to Oslo
52 Penny value
57 Feelings of gloom 59 Wrapped, as an ankle 63 Wisdom tooth, for instance 64 ___ the baton
67 Swabs
69 Tennis star Djokovic
71 Call to mind
72 Nebraska metropolis 74 Henhouse histrionics? 76 Plains dwelling
77 Sites for grain stores
78 Whale food
79 Long part of a giraffe 81 Cardinal and crimson
82 How Dad may have the kids 83 Test for size
85 Working hours
87 Until the first pay raise 90 Profs’ helpers
92 “It’s over for me!”
96 Record player part
100 Fork-tailed seabird
102 Sacha Baron ___
103 Amazes
107 Popular sans serif font
108 Like a canceled mission
110 Covenant
111 Products for horse breeders? 115 Lacks
117 Aired again
118 Entered hastily
120 Monopoly game piece
122 ___-garde
123 Be able to make, as an owl
call?
127 Chop into bits
128 Large Apple product
129 Name hidden in “sommelier” 130 Attacked by a bee
131 Church official 132 Dorothy’s dog
133 Phone downloads 134 Not to mention
DOWN
1 The “m” of Einstein’s equation 2 He had a vulnerable heel 3 Plot development curve 4 Pointer
5 “___ never work!”
6 Proverbs
7 College administrators 8 “Wanna play poker?” 9 Complete a double play, in baseball lingo
10 Artist/activist Yoko 11 Swearing-in words
12 Hack (off)
13 Medium-sized battery
14 One of many on a flashy dress
15 Thrust quickly
16 Land like a bird
17 Sign that’s a phrase meaning “trample” backward
19 “Click ___ Ticket” 24 Vowel-shaped support 25 Hairstyles
31 Day on the set of a low-budget film?
33 Lubricate
34 Like a job for a handyperson 35 Currency in Chihuahua 36 Comic actress Drescher 37 Pre-A.D.
39 What an accused player is ejected from in “Among Us” 43 Mineral spring
45 Granola bit
47 “I know you”
49 Horror film street 51 Neighborhood baseball venue
53 Reaction to a spill you want to keep secret?
54 Split to join together?
55 Bare
56 Forest obscurers for some 58 Curling or cycling
60 Spanish word before “favor” 61 “Dear ___ Hansen”
62 Knights’ counterparts 64 Suggest
65 Type of acid in a protein 66 Sprinkles, as a sidewalk 68 French for “evening”
70 Sound associated with making money
73 Nile dam site
75 Tissue layer
80 Middle Kardashian sister 84 Historic Turner
86 Antitrust agcy.
88 Not a hoax
89 Garr of “Tootsie”
91 “SOS!”
93 Tough for the babysitter to manage
94 Newspaper parts 95 Palindromic TV channel 97 Morse code sound
98 “... ___ me down to sleep” 99 Painter whose name means “the Greek”
101 Fruit of a flowering shrub 103 Vowel-shaped home
104 Flour-loving pest
105 Trip to the post office, say 106 Take on a global issue?
109 State named for a river
112 Prefix for “national”
113 No longer stylish
114 Actor ___ Jackson Jr.
116 Sugar-loving pests
119 They bear fawns
121 Therefore
123 Top 40 song
124 “I love,” in Latin
125 Vinification vessel
126 Grand Central, e.g. (Abbr.)