UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Prepare, as potatoes
5 Sound heard while shearing 8 Fellow at Oxford?
12 Muscle contraction
17 Like many gallerygoers 18 Bygone
19 2006 Amy Winehouse hit 21 Intense passion
22 401(k) cousin
(see letters 11 to 14)
25 Position
26 Like seats with coats on them 27 Mix-up at a bar?
28 Partners in battle
30 Peeper
31 Living thing
33 “Strange as it may be ...” (5 to 7) 38 Lead-in to X, Y or Z 39 Cul-de-___
41 Tear’s partner
42 Listlessness
43 Kinda
45 Worst possible portion 47 Morse code sound
49 Word after baby or fist 50 Naomi Bennett’s portrayer in “Private Practice” (3 to 6) 54 Bangles on a bracelet
56 Shoofly dessert
57 “Agreed,” in Arles
58 Gala who was a surrealist’s muse
59 Ginger ___
60 Hairy Addams Family member
61 Attaches, as patches
63 Islamic legal code (4 to 7)
69 “___ my watch!”
71 Citi Field team
72 “I’m beat!”
73 “The Jungle Book” wolf 74 Bubbly purple drink (4 to 7) 76 Detains in conversation, perhaps
78 Busy airport in Ga.
79 Fuming feeling
80 Pancake descriptor
82 Before, in poems
83 Buddy
84 Allude to
87 On the level (4 to 7) 91 Anderson of “WKRP in
Cincinnati”
92 Letters after lambdas
94 Halt
95 They may follow booms 96 Major aluminum company 98 Merlot and Barolo
100 Hack (off)
102 Abu Dhabi’s fed.
103 Line up (5 to 9)
106 Itemizes
108 “___ favor”
111 Place for kitchen storage
112 Key or cay
114 Flooded
116 What a goner has 119 Digital asset, or a theme hint 122 Some are kids at heart
123 Nonsense
124 Environmental startup?
125 Dutch cheese town
126 Slipping hazards, in cartoons 127 Back talk, slangily
128 It’s the limit, at times
129 Challenge in a sleepover
game
DOWN
1 Not glossy
2 Wide variety
3 Vampire slayer’s weapon 4 Jekyll’s alter ego
5 Unwelcome blog commenter 6 Cover story?
7 Prettifies
8 Where an insult “sticks” 9 Greeting on a name tag
10 Sushi tuna
11 Rose Bowl event
12 Tranquil
13 Inmates may plan one 14 Ventnor, e.g., in Monopoly (Abbr.)
15 Bronny, to LeBron
16 “I pity the fool” speaker 20 Romantic song
21 ___ gras 23 Still being tested
24 Japanese site of the 1998 Winter Olympics
29 “I said ‘no, no, no,’” e.g., in 19-Across
32 Fill with love
34 Reside (in)
35 Latin word on a coin
36 Molar root holders
37 Trendy
38 Guard dog’s warning 40 Apartments that are sold 43 Romantic caller
44 One-named folk singer 46 Bread with saag paneer
48 “___ she blows!”
50 Copycat’s activity
51 New York governor Andrew 52 Ate in style
53 Full of juicy gossip
55 “Ingrid” would be a good one for a crossword solver 61 Causing no chemical reaction 62 Working group
64 Mirren of “The Good Liar” 65 Emmy or ESPY
66 Go for with gusto
67 Hitching posts?
68 Movie about the last robot on Earth
70 Sampling tool 72 Guard duty
75 Line on a pair of jeans
76 “Hold your horses!”
77 “OK, however, ...”
81 Rancher’s rope
84 Anchorman Lester
85 Ancient Peruvian 86 Intoxicated, in modern lingo 88 Famed Harlem theater 89 Radiation source in space 90 Take advantage of
91 ___ Vegas Raiders
93 Google, say
97 Adjusts to changes
99 Problem in an old wooden building
101 Jigsaw puzzle parts
104 Name within “happiness” 105 Totally exhausted
107 In a rut
108 Animal that eats bamboo 109 Grouch on “Sesame Street” 110 Pun, for one?
113 Ophthalmologist’s concern 115 Subject of a legalization
debate
116 Power ___ (short sleep)
117 Appreciative poem
118 Shade
120 Second-person pronoun
121 Artist Lichtenstein