UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Smartphone keyboard featuring faces 6 Big ___ Conference 9 Ticket remnant 13 No-luck connector 17 Things to avoid 18 Event with demos 20 In the ballpark, say 21 Aquarium layer 22 “We’ll start again in five” 25 Tropical fruit 26 Opposite of WSW 27 Defect, idiomatically 28 Certain 29 “You’ve been ___!” 30 Sunbeams 32 Cheaper option in a mixed drink 34 “Do not recommend!” 37 One of five in Yahtzee! 38 Smallest Canadian province 42 Italian automaker 44 Finger-spelling sys. 45 Iran, once 46 Piraguero’s competitor in “In the Heights” 51 Pet doctor 52 Run in stockings 56 Nile reptiles 57 Orange tubers 58 Snappy retort 60 River under Pont Neuf 61 Letter before sigma 62 Marvel-ous god? 63 Fruit used in a holiday pudding 65 ___ cube (anxiety-relieving gizmo) 66 Tags on Twitter 67 Sacred church image 71 Doc’s group 72 Salad often made with anchovies 74 Swiss range75 Champagne bottle stopper 76 “Mazel ___!” 77 “Moon Over Half Dome” photographer Adams 78 Rum cake 80 Chanukah coins 81 Tenor in one’s voice 82 Toffee treat brand 83 Assist 84 Forestry tool used in a controlled burn 88 Big shot 91 The Barefoot Contessa, ___ Garten 92 Nutrition info, for short 93 “There’s not enough time to do it all!” 100 Impossible “Jeopardy!” result, these days 101 Proceeded with caution 102 Fiber arts apparatus 103 ___ bag 107 “Hidden Figures” actress Taraji P. 109 Pullup targets 111 “The weekend’s here!” 113 “Don’t Bring Me Down” group 114 Ramen mushroom 115 Chinese calendar period that began in 2023 119 Adored 120 “___ Too Proud” (musical about the Temptations) 121 Soul food side 122 Latin dance-inspired cardio 123 Ship’s front 124 Dedicated works 125 Crew driver 126 Break up
DOWN
1 “Come in!” 2 “How Far I’ll Go” singer 3 Pitch perfect, say 4 Biden, familiarly 5 “You don’t have to tell me” 6 Iran’s capital 7 Pet store category for iguanas 8 “Code Switch” network 9 Sad state? 10 Pine product 11 Team for Rose Lavelle 12 ___ choy 13 Curved line on sheet music 14 Country where Swahili is a mandatory school subject15 Collapse 16 Led 19 NBA tiebreakers 21 Graf ’s husband 23 Garment paired with a choli 24 Package deal, maybe 29 Watch spot 31 Minor disputes 33 Flips (through) 35 Famed fountain of Rome 36 Spot seller 39 GPS rec 40 Rough guess, briefly 41 Removed some hair, say 42 Decorative feature at some sushi bars 43 Brief “Sure, why not?” 46 “Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da” percussion instruments 47 U-haul competitor 48 Travel by air? 49 Prefix meaning “all” 50 Horse play? 53 Hardly an early bird 54 Tide pool creatures 55 Move on, after a breakup 59 Verbal hesitations 60 Dishwasher’s station 62 Taken by mouth 63 Rice dish 64 Apt rhyme for chop 65 “Go ___ and prosper” 68 Yak 69 Slushy treat 70 Young horse 73 Medieval laborers 78 Arm day muscle 79 Take from stage to screen, say 80 App with an envelope icon 81 Hopping amphibians 83 Had leftovers, maybe 85 Deceived 86 ___ M. Martin (“The Baby-sitters Club” author) 87 Letters on some TVS 89 “Curiously strong” mint 90 Like many highways 93 Crash assistance? 94 Collateral keeper 95 Thinkpad brand 96 Many Valentine’s Day shapes 97 Giant lepidopteran of Japanese cinema 98 Turn the page? 99 Qatari monarch 104 Site for many a self-diagnosis 105 Tell it to the judge! 106 Implied 108 Distort, as data 110 Airport code for one visiting The Castro 112 Shake 115 NBA Hall of Famer Ming 116 “___ Mubarak” (holiday greeting) 117 Match ender, briefly118 Bao, e.g.