UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Edge of a basketball hoop 4 John Coltrane’s genre 8 As well
11 Sheet in a book
15 Actress de Armas 18 Brouhaha
19 Run away
20 Big brand in camping gear 21 Wagon-pulling animals 22 Melancholy
23 Turn bad?
24 Economist Marx 25 Walgreens competitor 26 Wearily walk
27 “Selma” director Duvernay
28 Kiddos
30 Dad ___ (middle-aged physique
for some)
31 Panama, e.g.
32 ___ capita 33 Russian ruler of old
34 “The Hill We Climb” poet Gorman
36 Sharpness
39 ___ out (got in touch with one’s inner nerd) 41 Linguistics expert Chomsky 42 Boring 43 “Casablanca” character 44 Reactions to creations? 47 Unit of magnetic flux density 48 Effectively impersonate 51 Place to experiment 52 Dubai dignitary
54 Tax prep expert 55 Capture on film 56 Grandpa Simpson known for shaking his fist
57 Alamo rival
59 Snake eye?
60 Arm ink
61 Letter appearing twice in this clue 62 Cowardly character of film 63 Like Japanese writing 65 Mentalist Geller
66 Calm
68 Serve as a go-between 69 Onetime MGM rival 70 Conclusion of a direct trip 71 Kind of instinct
73 Refuses to
76 Division for the N.Y. Mets 79 Charged atom
80 The “E” in FEMA
82 Amps (up)
84 Keanu, in “The Matrix” 85 Language that’s unspoken 87 “Right away!”
89 Oceanic phenomenon 90 Fashionable Big Apple label 91 Losing politician
94 “Well, well — what have we
here?!”
96 Swarms, like pests 99 Electric animal 100 How picture books are often read 102 Disallow 103 *Where a young DJ might become a Lone Star?
111 ___-a-brac 112 Singer’s concert staples
113 Silly giggle
114 Therefore
115 *Gigantic utensils in the Upper
Midwest?
120 A, in Arles
121 Capital of Italy?
122 NYU ender
123 List of options
124 A, in Austria
125 Safe place to crash?
126 Two ___ (mobile puzzle game) 127 Beam of light
128 List-finishing abbr.
129 ___ Paulo, Brazil
DOWN
1 Bob Marley, famously
2 Turn of phrase
3 *Invoices in the Big Sky? 4 Airport near LGA
5 *Calder sculpture in the Yellowhammer State?
6 Any number minus itself 7 Princess in some Nintendo titles 8 Technique of designing and
building
9 *Flickers of light outside a
casino?
10 Act of purification
11 Flower painted by O’keeffe 12 Wheel support
13 *Ordinary peach bagels? 14 Conclusion
15 *Last Frontier’s respectable
lenders?
16 Stars that brighten and fade 17 Oscar or Tony
29 Make out, in Tottenham 33 Julia’s character in “Ocean’s
Eleven”
35 “Double ___” (Nickelodeon game
show)
37 Clock setting in Chi-town 38 Oolong, for one
40 Otherwise
44 World-weary cry
45 Kind of blue?
46 Some skirts
48 Diet that shuns bread and dairy 49 High woodwind
50 Tear to pieces
53 Withdraws
55 Lured in
58 Skinny
62 Mandolin kin
64 Tiny battery
67 NBC show that once featured Amy Poehler
71 Italian city with a famed tower 72 Agitate
74 Singer Rita
75 Popular nail polish brand 77 Standard Gmail folder
78 Fat Brain ___ (big name in entertainment)
81 Dude
83 Canada’s smallest prov. 86 Single-room Jean-paul Sartre play
88 Zogby, e.g.
89 Hard-nosed fella
90 “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor
92 Arrived at
93 Ice Bucket Challenge cause (Abbr.)
95 Gardener’s need
97 League the Celtics and Lakers have historically dominated 98 Prophetic
100 Sax range
101 Bambi, for one
103 Beefy order?
104 Made a mistake
105 Pie ___
106 Greek yogurt brand
107 Rascal’s lack
108 Moral precept
109 Storybook monsters
110 Major Finnish telco
115 Pencil stump
116 Green owl mascot for a language-learning app
117 Mathematician Lovelace 118 Bio 101 subject
119 ___-cone (icy dessert)