UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
TOOLING AROUND By Alan Olschwang, edited By David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Watergate evidence 6 Antlered males
11 Problem for a princess
14 ___ Moines
17 Sea bordering Greece 18 Eucalyptus leaf eater 19 Midwest region with many ears
21 Very brainy (see letters 7 to 9 in this answer)
23 Convenient to carry
24 Take one’s pick
25 State secret stealer
26 London cathedral
28 Per ___ (by the day)
29 Yard trio
31 Qatar native
34 Prefix for “gender” 35 Bottom-row PC key
36 Noted barbarian leader
(5 to 9)
41 Hudson Square neighbor in NYC
43 Political competition
45 Bowling lanes
46 “First I’ve heard of it”
49 Hurls snowballs at
50 Craving
51 Oklahoma city with a Golden Driller statue
53 Steaming or boiling
54 Ocean, for a seahorse 57 Relaxation destination
59 Words of denial
61 Tuna for sushi
62 Apple all-in-one computer 63 Shrimp-diavolo connector 65 Prenatal test, informally 67 Targets with a snowball 69 To the limit (5 to 8)
73 “2001: A Space Odyssey” star Keir
76 “Black Swan” costumes 77 Letter-shaped addition
78 See socially
82 Bull ___ china shop
83 Olivia of “Richard Jewell” 85 School support grp.
87 Sled head
89 180 degrees from NNE 90 Fishing spools
92 Messenger molecule
94 Trolley sound
95 End of the road?
98 Adjusts, as tires
101 Tailors’ edges
102 “Tres ___” (“Very well,” in France)
103 Official job offer, say (4 to 9) 106 Sandwich known by its initials 107 “By all means!”
108 Ablutionary vessel
109 ___ Lee Desserts
113 Regal address
115 Ways of saying things?
119 French lake contents
121 Cut (off)
122 Piece such as “Messiah” 124 Light source (8 to 12)
128 Bangs’ place
129 Corn chip topper
130 Andean animals
131 Nonspecific choice
132 Skating champion Asada 133 Take off in a hurry, slangily 134 Ancient invader of England
DOWN
1 ASU’s city
2 Striped gemstone
3 Part of WPM
4 “’Cause I ___ me spinach” (Popeye)
5 Act peevishly toward 6 Reggae relative
7 AAA service
8 Sounds of pleasure
9 Like software with bugs 10 Most mawkish
11 Game with cues
12 Answers incorrectly, say 13 Six-legged insect
14 Katarina Witt’s skating rival (3 to 5)
15 Vogue competitor
16 Thin part of a wineglass 17 Beginning from
19 Computer “brain,” briefly 20 Disreputable group
22 Jordan neighbor
27 Gray or blond shade 30 Employing strategy
32 Sheedy of “The Breakfast Club”
33 Bundles of cotton
35 Beast in the Bible 37 Experiment
38 Fifty to
39 Set free
40 Home for a hawk
42 Most populous city in Nebraska
43 Paper purchase
44 Actress Jessica
47 Could
48 Make revisions to
49 Letter after upsilon
52 Les Etats-___
55 Surreptitious romances 56 Syllable before “la la” 58 Energize, as a crowd
60 Heating option
64 ’20s-’30s architectural style 66 Facial opening
68 Busybodies
70 Make a quilt, say
71 “The Land of Painted Caves” author Jean
72 Down with a bug
73 The second “D” in DVD
74 Get off an email list, informally 75 Place for some brief work? (2 to 4)
79 First in a long line?
80 Lots and lots
81 Halloween projectile 84 Foliage bit
86 One might be right
88 Tooth issue
91 Clone’s characteristic 93 Once more
96 Backspace over
97 Tolkien tree being
99 Race’s end
100 Range rover
104 Grain in Chex Mix chips
105 Backpackers’ routes
110 San Antonio landmark
111 Like Livy
112 Tablet downloads
113 Couch
114 What bodybuilders pump
115 Kind of code with three digits 116 Italian “See ya!”
117 Fish often battered
118 Put on the market
120 Bruin’s sch.
123 Resistance unit
125 Longtime CBS drama
126 Bit of body art
127 Place to land in SoCal