UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Cheeseheads’ state (abbr.) 5 Garden maze walls
11 Coins at an arcade 17 Japanese beer brand 19 Conflict under Bush
21 Tree that giraffes munch on 22 Dubbing
24 *10-time NBA All-Star who played for the Rockets in 2018 26 Chicago football team, in dialect
28 ___-pitch softball
29 Sound akin to “tut” 30 Some, in Spanish
31 *Joe woe
36 Pan-fried
37 Very long time
38 Wolfs down
42 Lead-ins to rips
43 Radius neighbor
44 2016 Olympics city 45 Buckeyes’ sch.
46 Corn casing
48 Figs. given midair
50 On point
52 Keurig inserts
54 Local bond, informally 55 Workout unit
57 Seating for the pious
60 ___, zwei, drei ...
61 *Spot in the paper 67 Laments the loss of
69 *Art theft, say?
73 Japanese sauce 74 *Six-legged builder 75 Storm’s superhero group 77 Cool
79 Take to court
80 Cruciform Egyptian symbol 81 Shops
83 ___ Moines
85 Windy City paper,
with “the”
88 High-five sound
89 Wolfed down
90 December 31, e.g.
93 ___ 1 = speed of sound 95 Patsy Cline’s record label 97 Under
99 It cancels out a con
100 Her silhouette was used for the Women’s Professional Soccer logo
102 “Genie in a Bottle” singer 106 On ___ (without a contract) 109 Star softball pitcher
110 “No Scrubs” girl group
111 Less rife
113 *What’s going on?
118 Melodic opera piece
119 In the vicinity
120 “Queen Sugar” actor Kofi 121 “Make room on the bench!” 122 L.A. neighborhood name
checked in “Free Fallin’”
123 Dog, say ... or, read differently, what the starred answers amount to?
124 Slovenian peaks
DOWN
1 Mascara applier
2 Acting Oscar
3 Brazilian ballroom dances 4 *No. 1’s No. 2
5 Hyphenated boxed juice brand
6 No longer on the board 7 Alfalfa’s love in
“The Little Rascals” 8 Professional Dapper Dan 9 Palindromic farm female 10 Mineo or Maglie
11 Hybrid beach outfit
12 Month that ends with a holiday (abbr.)
13 Big one?
14 Course with supply curves, briefly
15 El ___ (weather phenomenon)
16 “___ who?”
18 Feeling down
20 College military org.
23 Garbo or Gerwig
25 Buzzing with excitement 27 Sustained attack
32 Crane construction? 33 “Mrs.” analogue with a tilde 34 Like some phone game purchases
35 “I see, I see”
39 State with a large Cajun population
40 “Monday Night Football” channel
41 Figure (out)
43 Certain laptop on Craigslist 46 “The Handmaid’s Tale” streamer
47 Without changes
49 Vicinity
51 City near Scottsdale 53 *Honduras’ home
54 Turn of the 13th century 56 The Mamas & the ___ 58 Threadbare
59 8-Down’s garb
62 Result of addition
63 Tehran’s terrain
64 Bus money
65 Troy story
66 Big name in sexology
68 Pop’s Carly ___ Jepsen 70 Phone letters next to 0 71 Like a GI busing dishes 72 To the ___ degree
75 Dec. observance 76 Chess victory, informally 78 Entice
82 Comedian Meyers
84 Gujarat garment
86 “Gotcha, man”
87 Boyfriends, quaintly 88 Vector counterparts 91 Feature of many a New Orleans house 92 Authoritative order
94 Bring under control, as a wildfire 96 Guatemalan girl 98 Acquire over time
100 World leader Emmanuel 101 One rad dude
103 Pirates’ domains
104 Proof you can’t be the
culprit
105 Famed fable writer
106 Surgery remnant
107 Like 24-karat gold
108 Lover boy?
112 Decays
114 ___ of an era
115 Book fan’s online story,
slangily
116 100-Down’s nation, in Olympics shorthand
117 “The thing about that is ...”