UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
’TIS THE SEASONING By Alan Olschwang, edited By David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Big party
5 “Perhaps”
9 Large sum of money, briefly 12 Cascades peak in California 18 El Prado contents
19 Rescue
20 Pro ___ work
21 Victorian game room
22 Horse coat pattern
23 Peeved state
24 Most populous Hawaiian island
25 Nut in some Hershey’s bars 26 Rat race victims
28 Behaved appropriately
(see letters 9-12)
30 Con’s way out (letters 3-7) 32 Daisy’s “The Rise of Skywalker” role
33 Cloistered woman
34 Cheer syllable
35 Significant period
36 Bank staff
38 Like many Valentine’s Day gifts, in two ways 40 Comparatively cagey
42 Bagel relative
43 Ripped
45 2000s sitcom centered around a third-born child (letters 7-10)
53 Unappetizing fare
56 Heavenly sphere
57 Israeli ring dance
58 Gun, as an engine 59 Encountered coincidentally 61 Throat problem, informally 64 Delete
67 “SNL” alum Cheri
68 “Could you show me that?” (letters 2-6)
72 Sort of sole
73 Not fooled by
75 Merry adventures
76 Course selections? 78 Alphabetically first three-letter compass dir. 79 Bruins’ sch.
81 Director Ang
82 ___ buco
83 One of the Midwest’s Quad Cities (letters 10-13)
91 Poker hand fee
92 “___ wisely!”
93 Mister, in Mexico
97 “Do the Right Thing” actor Davis
100 Make forcefully, as a point 103 Tanning lotion spec
105 British rocker Brian
106 Army bed
107 Great anger
108 Many concert attendees (letters 5-9)
111 Hospital section
(letters 5-8)
116 Scrutinized
117 Devours 118 One of three in some cakes 119 “___ Lisa”
120 Travel by tram
121 Hit that’s less common than
a home run
122 ___ Christian Andersen
123 Glorifying poems
124 Approaching
125 Picks up on
126 Key rarely pressed by itself 127 In ___ (existing)
128 Makes a boo-boo
DOWN
1 Their pay comes from cuts 2 Act of waking
3 Carb-loaded
4 Temporary tattoo dye
5 Bond distributor 6 Meditation chant
7 Spanish warning
8 Still
9 Castle defense
10 Whisper from one who’s hiding
11 No longer a whisper
12 Stretch across
13 In fine fettle
14 Baby carriers?
15 “Citizen Kane” actor Everett 16 Shoe part under the laces 17 Burning with passion 20 Italian tenor Andrea 27 Wagnerian work
28 Starting squad
29 Raw bar appetizer
31 Con Edison service (Abbr.) 37 Actress Jodi ___ O’Keefe 38 Indian address
39 Unionize?
41 Aztec or Inca
42 Flapper’s coiffure
44 Rep. Ilhan
46 Property developer’s buy 47 Holey shoe
48 Pronoun in hymns
49 Arizona native
50 Crowds
51 Anti-flood embankments 52 Extremely
53 Produce producer 54 National Hispanic Heritage Month honoree
55 “Almost ready!”
60 Petty peeve
61 ___ Speedy (photocopying store)
62 Disapproval sound 63 High-___ monitor
65 Summer hrs. in Orlando 66 Dejected
69 Penne ___ vodka
70 Asian flatbread
71 Many a TikTok user 74 Kick out
77 Opposite of paleo
80 Deacon, for one
81 Kindled
84 “Cobra ___” (YouTube TV series)
85 Hero follower?
86 “Oh! Of course!”
87 Chemically related compounds
88 Madagascar critter 89 “Hogwash!”
90 Supports
94 More down-and-out 95 Being tracked, in a way 96 Lists of enrollees
97 Double foursomes
98 1957 Jimmy Dorsey hit 99 Cholesterol reducer
101 “Queen of Soul” Franklin 102 Describing drudgery
103 Film segments
104 “Can’t I?”
109 Shuffles and Nanos
110 “20,000 Leagues Under the
Sea” writer
112 Org. that delivers
113 Moscow ___ (cocktail)
114 Hairy primates
115 It’s pitched in the woods
119 “Calvin and Hobbes”
bully