UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Foot or yard
5 Gadot of “Death on the Nile”
8 Ikea instruction unit
12 Minecraft collection
16 Purchases that make the cut?
18 Producer of a revival? (Abbr.)
20 Move like mud
21 *Became readily apparent
22 Young and unaware
23 Country in a Beatles song
24 Bearded African game
25 Ohio NBA team
26 Lucky strike
28 You’re on the hook!
30 Natural gas component
32 Former NFL quarterback Brett
33 Top pick
36 Colony insect
37 Lineup at an airport
38 *Rock type similar to dolomite
40 Articles claimed at airports
43 Therefore
44 “OMG, spare me!”
45 Loggers’ contest
46 Public health org.
47 Identical
49 “You’re lying!”
52 *Last-resort program shutdown method
54 Brief movie roles
55 Peeve
59 More arrogant, perhaps
60 The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, notably
62 Sellout’s letters
63 Make, as tea
64 Chops finely
65 Pro pitcher?
67 Qty.
68 North Carolina collegians
72 Barrel in a cellar
75 Fit well together
77 Biohazard container item
78 *Title match, often
80 Places to buy apple products?
82 Carmelized burger addition
83 John, in England
84 Cornerstone of Italian cuisine
87 Common URL ender
88 First Nations people
89 Subject discussed by Rousseau
90 *People shipwrecked on an island
92 Roe source
93 “Hat head” causer
95 Heartbeat sound
96 Disneyland’s spot, for short
98 Humility
102 Depose
103 “Shush!”
104 Fatty tuna
105 Female sheep
106 Jim Kramer’s channel
108 “___ You Better” (Shawn Mendes song)
110 Travel abroad ... and what 21-, 38-, 52-, 78- and 90-Across do
113 “Ah, gotcha ...”
114 Islam’s largest branch
115 Quick recharges
116 Gallivants (about)
117 Pear variety used in some sorbet
118 Pranks with rolls, for short
119 Tax form figs.
DOWN
1 Full-length
2 Human Genome Project org.
3 “Will do my best”
4 One on a lease
5 Receives
6 Had some dinner
7 They’re dropped before trips
8 Sancho Panza, e.g.
9 Stopovers can extend them
10 Falco of “The Sopranos”
11 Perspective, in brief
12 Judgment day setting?
13 Expensive perfume ingredient
14 Parts of lbs.
15 Each
16 “Citizen ___”
17 Closer’s goal
19 Swift, for one
21 Grand opening?
27 Trailers, for short
29 App clients
31 Owns
32 Tennis mistake
33 Key of Avicii’s “Wake Me Up”
34 SSW opposite
35 “I like the moment when I break a man’s ___” (Bobby Fischer)
37 Board leader
39 “All good!”
40 Partner, maybe (Abbr.)
41 ASPCA sign
42 Cramped top floors
43 Teenage sass, in slang
47 Blow up
48 “Point proven,” in math (Abbr.)
49 They hang outside in winter
50 Resets, as a scale
51 Org. with X-ray vision?
53 Iowa college
56 Tel Aviv native
57 “No need to worry”
58 Dandy
60 Sports commentator Yates
61 Sheeran’s “How Would You Feel,” for one
63 “Uncle” of America
64 Cocktails with vodka and
cherry liqueur
66 VHS displacer
69 Nelson Mandela’s org.
70 Zap or nuke
71 Cerebral
72 Ebbed
73 “This’ll be the day that ___” (“American Pie” lyric)
74 “Matrix” protagonist
76 Some Thai chili condiments
78 Lesson from Aesop
79 Small pooch
81 Speaks harshly?
84 Main M.D.
85 NPR’S Shapiro
86 Closing coined by Samuel Pepys
88 AI program
89 Masks and more (Abbr.)
91 Naomi of “King Kong ”
92 Poli ___
93 Kitchen gadgets for apples
94 Decorates
97 Eye-related
98 Migrate
99 Leaks
100 “___ the night before Christmas ...”
101 “Sounds like a plan!”
103 Deviser of many paradoxes
104 Hauls a car
106 Smoke, for short
107 Org. with crypto experts?
109 BBQ spice mix
111 Alley ___
112 First word in the names of three large California cities