UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Flow backward
4 Former Olympic swimmer
Torres
8 Overly formal
12 Bazaar, for one
18 There's nothing there!
20 Musical work
21 Actor Liu who played
Shang-chi
22 Louisiana cooking style
23 Online rascals?
26 Restful state
27 Go bananas
28 Beach bird
29 Turn rapidly
31 Wee boy
32 Avoid highway entrances?
36 Addis ___, Ethiopia
38 Choose, as a wedding date
41 Screwed up
42 Big bounds
44 Bike trip
47 Road crew's goo
48 Bitter brews
49 Gabrielle of volleyball
50 More-played part of a 45
51 Southern neighbor of Brazil
53 Fasteners for a big trunk?
56 Ordained group
57 Choose, as a senator
58 Fill with bubbles
59 Sedgwick of “Phenomenon”
60 Egg-bearing organ
61 Ballet support
64 Org. with Flames and
Lightning
65 Tool for grabbing iron
filings?
70 “You're it!” game
73 Property claims
74 Camelid that spits
75 Where to hear Alexa
79 Country with the Star of
David on its flag
81 Amazing actions
82 “Hello” in 79-Across
84 Traveler's skill in sci-fi?
88 Duo
89 Valentine candy shape
90 YMCA lifeguards' spots
91 Take out of the freezer
92 Chill, with “out”
93 Gas brand in Canada
94 Bouquet bottoms
95 Take illegally, as a throne
97 Important time period
98 Mushroom in
miso soup, maybe
100 Sand dunes, say?
104 Ctrl-___-delete
106 OK, or gorgeous
108 Fruit that might flavor gin
109 Patronize a restaurant
113 Flask for serving wine
115 Bottoms of tropical fruits?
119 One may collect junk
120 Concept
121 Formal agreement
122 Buggy code phase
123 Pungent buds in cooking
124 Out-of-pocket amount
125 Finishes up
126 Negative conjunction
DOWN
1 Like Scar and Jafar
2 Lead singer for U2
3 Eighths of bytes
4 “Get on it now!”
5 Hairy primate
6 Scarlet Knights' New Jersey
school
7 Give a guarantee
8 Biblical poem
9 Salty part of a margarita
glass
10 Little demon
11 Tousle
12 Elusive Golden Arches
sandwiches
13 Rock concert venue, perhaps
14 Sales agent, for short
15 “Oh, yeah!” drink mascot
16 “Frozen” queen
17 Ready to be hit, in golf
19 Owner's document
24 ___ de Janeiro
25 Dressed (in)
30 Dead-tree medium
33 Like an overcast sky
in London?
34 Skirt fold
35 Come across as
37 Prickly shrub
38 Unable to escape
39 Before the deadline
40 More loyal
43 Versatile blackjack card
45 Intellectual substance
46 Gallery stand
48 Summer mo. with no federal
holidays
49 People who put trash
to good use
50 Go undercover?
52 Metric weight
53 Bed supports
54 Hatcher of “Desperate
Housewives”
55 Give a hoot
57 Like all leap years
60 Half and half?
61 Canoe and catamaran
62 Triceps' limbs
63 Electronics brand once
owned by GE
66 Phone notification
67 Covered in gold leaf
68 Envelope part
69 Red and Black but strangely
not Blue
70 10% church donation
71 Fire remnants
72 Receptacle that might catch
bacon fat
76 Fragrant bud in cooking
77 “Iliad” poet
78 Last Greek letter
80 Judge of the Yankees
81 F on a test?
82 Gatherings of traders
83 “In what way?”
85 Decide to join
86 Enemy
87 Home before birth
88 No ___ Traffic
91 Bakeware item for angel
food cake
94 Alpine athletes
95 Golden State sch. where
Reggie Miller played
96 “Olde” store
99 Potential buyer's
submission
101 “Take ___ on the couch”
102 Golf standard
103 Remainder of a ticket
104 Two-way, as an outlet
105 “Doctor Zhivago” heroine
107 “Doctor Zhivago,” for one
110 Sign of what's coming
111 No more than
112 Old Russian ruler
114 Sheer wonder
116 Altar answer, one hopes
117 “Duck Hunt” console
118 TV type