UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Camila Cabello hit with a
repetitive title
7 Soon to receive 12 Discord
18 State of fullness
19 1990s cardio-boxing
program 20 Literature and
drama, e.g. 22 Nervously 23 Banana ___ 24 Beef, for one 25 Hotel door opener 26 Bubbly brews 27 French friend 28 Mononymous “Cheap
Thrills” singer 29 Pizza divisions 30 Apple alternatives
31 “Harry Potter and the ___
Hallows” 33 Gender-affirming treatment,
for short 34 Bird with an eye for eyes? 37 Decelerated
38 Red and green, say 40 Fashionable 1950s footwear 42 Ringo of the Beatles
43 Pop in the mail
44 Ned’s eldest on “Game of Thrones”
45 Fixer of hairy problems? 47 Online crafting marketplace 48 Occupied, as an office 49 Penne ___ vodka
50 “No clue!”
53 In the lead
55 Big name in 1980s gaming 57 Patricia of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” 58 Record label now owned by Sony
61 Brought up
63 List ender (Abbr.) 65 Traffic reporter’s eye in the sky, in slang
67 MSFT coder
68 Hold on to
71 Stereo alternative 74 Ghanaian river or Italian physicist
75 Tossed out of a game 78 Sluggishly spread 80 Badgers
81 Fibula, for example
83 Solo for Leontyne Price 85 Square ___
86 Makers of green eggs but not ham
87 Turkey bakers 89 Thermopylae combatants 91 Classic 1990s puzzle game 92 Weaves, in a way 94 Devilishly devious design 95 Morse code dash 96 Nickname spray-painted on the Kwik-e-mart
98 “___ to Joy” 99 Emulates Etna
103 Fish with a long snout 104 Deck swabber’s tool 105 BASIC command 107 Threefold 108 Chemical that gives nail polish remover its smell 110 Boost, in slang 112 Greets, as the new year 113 Person dyeing for desk work?
114 Nestles
115 Manage
116 Black Sea port
117 Like proverbs
118 “All right, already!”
DOWN
1 Old hat
2 Big name in 1970s gaming 3 Grilled cheese ingredient that comes in singles? 4 Holders of some solutions 5 Completely still 6 “Heavens to Betsy!” 7 Third-person pronoun 8 Vegetable that fits the bill for kimchi?
9 Just missed 10 Off-broadway award 11 Decays
12 Priceless violin, briefly 13 Most crosswords and essays have them
14 Tries anew to get through 15 “___ Spock” (Leonard Nimoy autobiography)
16 Raw bar offerings found in banks?
17 Cyber Monday sellers 18 Lets the dogs loose
21 Use an umbrella, perhaps 30 ___ Beach
32 Ojibwa clan symbol 34 Tournament groupings 35 “Back” button 36 Hopeless gaming neophyte 38 Tittering sound 39 Tender side like roti or tortillas?
40 Sports ___ 41 Marvel-ous group? 43 Pottery fragment
46 Main squeeze
51 ___ Mahal
52 Slovene or Slovak, say
54 Ice hockey fake
56 Bank amenity, briefly 59 Tennis racket string
material, once
60 Compile
62 Present time? (Abbr.)
64 Ice cream flavor that might
be mint-based?
66 Greedy and avaricious ... like someone devouring the ends of 3-, 8-, 16-, 39- and 64-Down
69 ORD guess
70 “Law & Order” suspect 72 Generic, as groceries
73 ___ layer
76 Game that always ends in
collapse
77 Molds
79 “Star Trek” extras in
makeup, briefly
81 Small corner stores
82 Type of vegetarian 84 Curving trajectory
88 Some Martin Luther King Jr.
orations
90 Olympic event with heavy
weights?
91 “Semper Fidelis” service
members
93 Precious gems
95 Obtain, as a formula
97 Genre for Leontyne Price 100 No longer in vogue
101 Makes an effort
102 “Auld Lang ___”
105 Shocked reaction
106 Hotel chain whose name
means “all”
107 “Iliad” setting
109 20-20, say
111 “Gangnam Style”
performer