UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Retail store
5 Indonesian tourist spot 9 Amazon parrot
14 “Wild Blue Yonder” mil. branch 18 Lab gel
19 “Dreams From My Father” author
21 Banded gem
22 Fit for picking
23 “Kon-___” (2012 epic film)
24 Bar regular’s order, with “the” 25 Among the best
(unscramble letters 2-9)
27 They may lift you up or bring you down (... 6-12)
30 Lady of pop
31 “Have we ___ before?” 32 Affirmatives
33 Rodeo rope
34 Flowery decoration on a cake 36 Vegan scramble ingredient 38 “A Visit From St. Nicholas” opener
40 Lucci of soap fame
43 Airport sched. guess 46 Goddesses of destiny 49 Financial difficulty (... 2-7) 52 Saxophonist Stan
54 Home entertainment system
set, perhaps
56 Seal, as a crate
57 Pool necessity
58 Hearty soup type 60 Electrical distribution network 62 Legume in a pod
63 Jack or ace
64 One may say “APPROVED” 65 Terminate
66 Landed properties
68 Show set in Prohibition-era
Atlantic City (... 7-10)
73 Was inactive
76 Time to chill
77 Sources of an app’s ratings 81 “Guilty” or “not guilty” 82 President pro ___
84 Love deity
85 Alliance
86 Chicken ___ king
87 Lose one’s last chip 90 Battery terminal
92 Tirade
93 Temporary fixes (... 4-7) 96 Continuously
98 Plaines leader?
99 Broadway Joe was one
100 Mediocre
101 ___-fry (Chinese dish)
103 Melancholy poems
106 Come up, as an issue
110 Strong suit fabric
114 ’80s tape machine
116 Disney World attraction
117 One going down the aisle?
(... 5-10)
119 Departs (... 3-7)
122 Sicily neighbor
123 Yours, in Toulon 124 Like the number 124
125 Had the courage
126 Looney Tunes toon Fudd 127 Country next to Turkey 128 Pianist Peter
129 Zebras’ cousins
130 Fat in some pie crusts
131 Bell sound
DOWN
1 Bloke’s buddy
2 Like an acrobat
3 Autumn implements
4 Hot dish holder
5 Boxing event
6 Complete
7 Dern of “Jurassic Park” 8 Desktops that may have eight cores
9 Carnivores’ mouths 10 Previously
11 Freight carrier
12 “___ Shrugged” (Rand novel) 13 Club for a bunker shot 14 WWW address
15 Blue-eyed feline
16 Abbey recess
17 Suffix with Oktober
20 Cry of sorrow
26 One spelling of a burger condiment
28 Beginning on
29 Academic mil. unit
34 Tabula ___
35 Weekday abbr. that sounds like a number
37 Decline
39 Ashen
41 Sky-blue hue
42 Imperatives
43 Ids’ counterparts 44 Smartphone message
45 “___ girl!”
47 Advanced gradually
48 Tube in a tumbler
50 Drowsy Disney dwarf
51 Sorta
53 Lusaka is its capital
55 American Express alternative 59 Apple’s ___ Touch
61 Dig deep
63 Salad type with croutons 65 Lowlife, slangily
67 Fifty-fifty test answer
69 Place to pray
70 Sea north of Siberia 71 Low-priced, in brand names 72 Mortar master
73 Lay eggs like salmon
74 Metal mixture 75 Moving picture?
78 “Zounds!”
79 Alphabetic symbol of old 80 Lists for the band
83 Iconic Disney headwear 85 It begins on Ash Wednesday 87 Spuds
88 Deep-dish pizza chain, informally
89 Six-point plays (Abbr.) 91 Military runaway
94 Kenan’s Nickelodeon co-star 95 Fly high
97 “Compact” follower
102 Fixed, as linoleum
104 Original “SNL” member
Radner
105 Invention seeds
107 Trevi Fountain’s world capital 108 Poker pronouncement
109 1965 Alabama march site
111 In again
112 Pun reaction
113 Barely managing, with “out” 114 Engine in a Dodge Viper
115 Where a bat hangs
117 Some HS dropouts earn them 118 Cloth measure
120 Ambient music pioneer
121 Peace sign