Universal – Nov 5 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
“… called for his fiddlers ___” |
THREE |
“A likely story!” |
HAH |
“Come again?” |
HUH |
“Giant” author Ferber |
EDNA |
“Good grief!” |
EGAD |
“My mistake!” |
OOPS |
“Skyfall” singer |
ADELE |
“Take ___ Train” (Duke Ellington classic) |
THEA |
“Tarzan” extra |
APE |
“What’s gotten ___ you?” |
INTO |
“___ bitten, twice shy” |
ONCE |
“___ the ramparts …” |
OER |
100-meter event |
DASH |
A bad dancer might step on it |
TOE |
African language |
BANTU |
Amigo |
PAL |
Angry |
CROSS |
Argentine grassland |
PAMPA |
Be a cake maker |
BAKE |
Bedouin |
NOMAD |
Big Apple, briefly |
NYC |
Big game |
DEER |
Bit of residue |
DREG |
Builder’s map |
PLAT |
Caddie’s bagful |
TEES |
Calculating one, at times |
ADDER |
Carry with great effort |
SCHLEP |
Certain chess piece |
PAWN |
Coat inside a chimney |
SOOT |
Computer-running period |
UPTIME |
Con games |
GUILES |
Contemptuous look |
SNEER |
Continental cash |
EURO |
Cut and splice |
EDIT |
Dele reversal |
STET |
Desert plant |
YUCCA |
Distiller Walker |
HIRAM |
Does what one’s told |
OBEYS |
Clues |
Answers |
Extremely happy |
ONTOPOFTHEWORLD |
Far from wealthy |
POOR |
Fedoras and pork pies |
HATS |
Feel sorry for |
PITY |
Feminizing suffix |
ESS |
Goes up against |
DEFIES |
Greedy thing to wish for (with “the”) |
WORLDATONESFEET |
Guys |
FELLAS |
Horse gait |
TROT |
Length x width, for a rectangle |
AREA |
Make a basket |
SCORE |
Mall occupants |
MERCHANTS |
Meathead |
BOOB |
Military truce |
ARMISTICE |
Mini-whirlpool |
EDDY |
Modernized |
UPDATED |
Momentous and then some |
WORLDSHATTERING |
No longer new |
USED |
Not once, poetically |
NEER |
Nova ___ |
SCOTIA |
One billion years |
EON |
Out in front |
AHEAD |
Physician’s charge |
FEE |
Place to find many teahouses |
FAREAST |
Prefix meaning “four” |
TETRA |
Procedures |
METHODS |
Pseudonym of H.H. Munro |
SAKI |
Reed instrument |
OBOE |
Rock that needs refinement |
ORE |
Same old, same old |
RUT |
Sandler of films |
ADAM |
Shout to a sailor |
AHOY |
Staffs |
MANS |
Stately horse |
STEED |
Whack, as a baseball |
SWAT |
When the Jewish Sabbath begins |
SUNDOWN |
Whispered “yoo-hoo” |
PSST |
Yemen neighbor |
OMAN |