Universal – Jan 24 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| “Gulliver’s Travels” brute |
YAHOO |
| A head |
PER |
| Achieve lofty milestones |
HITTHEHIGHSPOTS |
| Anxious concern |
UNEASE |
| Any follower? |
THING |
| Atop, poetically |
OER |
| Australian big bird |
EMU |
| Bad vibrations? |
SEISMS |
| Birds resembling gulls |
TERNS |
| Bug killer banned by the EPA |
DDT |
| Catch red-handed |
NAB |
| Certain sanitation worker |
TRASHMAN |
| Chopin’s instrument |
PIANO |
| City known for rubber |
AKRON |
| Close friend |
PAL |
| Contemptible fellow |
DASTARD |
| Dark brown pigment |
SEPIA |
| Despite the fact that |
ALTHOUGH |
| Destines to a tragic fate |
DOOMS |
| Explosive stuff |
NITER |
| Extreme suffix |
EST |
| Exxon alternative |
ARCO |
| Further shorten, as a piece of wood |
RESAW |
| Geisha’s sashes |
OBIS |
| Grim Grimm character |
OGRE |
| Had some food |
ATE |
| Hugely popular |
HOT |
| Imitative behavior |
APERY |
| In a lavish manner |
HIGHONTHEHOG |
| It’s of miner concern |
ORE |
| Jewish New Year |
ROSHHASHANAH |
| Kind of delivery |
UPS |
| Lacking in freshness |
TRITE |
| Like some expensive carpeting |
PLUSH |
| Like the early hours of the morning |
WEE |
| Locale for clam diggers |
SEASHORE |
| Maker of royal jelly |
BEE |
| Mechanic’s charge |
LABOR |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Metallic waste product |
DROSS |
| Minuscule amounts |
IOTAS |
| Moon stage |
PHASE |
| My daughter, to my brother |
NIECE |
| Nile snake |
ASP |
| Nod’s verbal equivalent |
UHHUH |
| Old crone |
HAG |
| Oompah band instruments |
TUBAS |
| Ping-Pong table divider |
NET |
| Pink-legged wader |
STILT |
| Prefix with “normal” or “chute” |
PARA |
| Rebuffing responses |
NOS |
| Remove a binding |
UNLASH |
| Remove, as a brooch |
UNPIN |
| Right-hand page |
RECTO |
| Rock’s David Lee |
ROTH |
| Shot before bedtime |
NIGHTCAP |
| Slalom expert |
SKIER |
| Slimmest winning margin? |
HAIR |
| South Pacific island |
SAMOA |
| Staircase part |
TREAD |
| State known for potatoes |
IDAHO |
| Stomach woe |
ACHE |
| Supreme Norse deity |
ODIN |
| Tennis great Boris |
BECKER |
| That fellow’s |
HIS |
| Those folks |
THEM |
| To the left, to a sailor |
APORT |
| Troll’s cousin |
GNOME |
| Tropical lizard |
GECKO |
| Type of bag or cube |
ICE |
| U.S./European defense org |
NATO |
| Uncomfortable position |
HOTSEAT |
| Unsettlingly strange |
EERIE |
| White-plumed wader |
EGRET |
| Word with “free” or “secret” |
AGENT |
| You’ll sleep through it |
DREAM |
| ___ Andreas fault |
SAN |