UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Berate
7 Flavor enhancer letters 10 Watson’s corp.
13 Point to consider
19 Intricately decorated 20 Landing guess, briefly
21 Bi- plus uni
22 Little angel
23 Sacha Baron Cohen genre 24 Apple CEO Cook 25 Transgression
26 Diamond units
27 Manicure file material
28 *Movie business (note a hidden word in each starred pair’s top answer)
31 Light brown
32 *Slangy favor request (note a physical state in the bottom answer)
33 Small smooches
37 “___ the season ...”
38 First asteroid to be discovered 39 Decides not to change 40 California border lake
41 Biting
43 Hailed ride
44 “Sorry, we’re full”
45 **Sunlight helps the body produce it
49 Talia’s “Rocky” role
53 CBS series with a 15-year run 54 **Regimens that may include broth
57 Awed reactions
58 Prefix for manage
59 Actor Davis
60 Hobbit obsessed with the One Ring
62 Bib blotches
64 Garten who hosts
“Barefoot Contessa”
66 French racing city
69 Fixed a flat?
73 Desktops with Pro models 77 Vision-related
78 Does some weeding 80 ***Prime minister under Queen Victoria
83 Kwik-E-Mart clerk
84 Abhor
85 ***1800s street fixture
86 Not so loose
88 Chinese leader in pop art portraits
90 “You Gotta Be” singer 93 “Fear of Flying” author Jong 94 Frontline doctor
97 Tall and grande
100 Increases
101 Evaluated, as an Uber driver 102 ****“Help me!”
104 Tantrum
105 ****Certain TV display
107 Government college
assistance form (Abbr.)
109 Hit 2009 sci-fi film
112 ___Pen 113 Cereal grain
114 Where you may pick a lemon 115 Most prudent
116 Bear voiced by Seth MacFarlane
117 Enjoy Chamonix, say
118 Give in
119 Laughs derisively
120 Half of sei
121 “C’___ la vie!”
122 Piles of clutter
DOWN
1 Where a famous stone was found
2 Biblical language
3 Critical hospital setting 4 Villain’s digs
5 “It’s worth ___”
6 Pro shop peg
7 What an overworked person craves
8 Julia of “Save the Last Dance” 9 Letter after beta
10 Words of lukewarm praise 11 Harness part
12 Peter who purchased Manhattan
13 Abbr. on a bank statement 14 Political activist Al
15 Annually 16 End of an ___
17 Barber’s job
18 “Search Party” channel 28 Opposite of against
29 “The Lovebirds” actress Rae 30 ’60s protest grp.
32 Windshield sticker
34 Godiva offerings
35 Type of ball with rubber strands
36 18-wheelers
38 Fruits similar to lemons 42 Personal records
43 The year 403
44 Twangy
46 “O Sole ___”
47 Mensa stats
48 Xis’ preceders
50 Bad-mouth
51 Sleep phase acronym 52 Meteor’s tail?
54 An in. has 2.54 of them 55 English course, for short 56 Dungarees material 57 Marching band sounds
61 Bizet or Seurat ... or Takei and Lucas
63 Unloaded?
65 Friend, in Nicaragua
67 Zero, to Carli Lloyd
68 Chem., e.g. 70 Wimbledon call
71 U-turn from WSW
72 Wedding planners hire them 74 Funny Gasteyer
75 ’90s music formats
76 The “S” of RSVP
78 One may send you a nasty email
79 “Aida,” for one
81 Convenience store sign 82 East-___ (certain Manhattanite) 84 Bringing up the rear
87 Regal staff
89 Electrically flexible
91 Part of a TV season
92 Extensive properties
94 Lead-in to lead?
95 Doc Brown of “Back to the Future”
96 A mum calls it a nappy 97 Quarterback runs
98 “Aha!”
99 Sandy kind of garden
103 Became an issue
106 Song and dance, for two
107 Makeup mirror view
108 Shapes of parentheses
109 Stubborn animal
110 It moves movers
111 “Many years ___ ...”
114 Video device, informally