Universal – Dec 31 2020 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
“J’accuse…!” writer Zola |
EMILE |
“Your highness” |
SIRE |
20 dispenser |
ATM |
Admit to knowing |
LETON |
Arctic or snowshoe animal |
HARE |
Beginnings of ideas |
GERMS |
Big name in Italian fashion |
ARMANI |
Brouhaha |
ADO |
California/Nevada resort area, informally |
TAHOE |
Catalog insert |
ORDERFORM |
Certain unpopular collector |
TAXMAN |
City in northwestern Pennsylvania |
ERIE |
Civil rights activist Ruby |
DEE |
Combined, as funds |
POOLED |
Common drying agent in packaging (see letters 6 to 8 in this answer) |
SILICAGEL |
Cowardly |
CRAVEN |
December 31, briefly |
NYE |
Dined |
ATE |
Drive very fast |
RACE |
Eavesdropping org |
NSA |
End of an ultimatum |
ELSE |
Eve, for Cain and Abel |
MOM |
Fellow associate |
COMRADE |
Fiona in “Shrek,” for one |
OGRESS |
Fly a plane |
AVIATE |
Gave the once-over |
EYED |
Get ready to eat a kid’s meal? |
TEETHE |
Highest point value for a Scrabble tile |
TEN |
Jones or James of jazz |
ETTA |
Karaoke need, informally |
MIKE |
Kick out of school |
EXPEL |
Kimono sash |
OBI |
Less constrained |
FREER |
Like owls’ feet |
TALONED |
Maximally unpleasant situation |
THEPITS |
Medication-approving org |
FDA |
Millenniums, for instance … or a hint to the hidden words in 17-, 31- and 44-Across |
TIMESPANS |
More cunning |
SLIER |
Clues |
Answers |
More tightly packed |
DENSER |
NASCAR legend Yarborough |
CALE |
One who is done for |
GONER |
Placed on a pedestal |
ADORED |
Playground game with a lot of running |
TAG |
Really messy room |
STY |
Realtor’s bare-bones offering |
LOT |
Rings out |
PEALS |
Romulus or Remus |
TWIN |
Saudi Arabia neighbor |
OMAN |
Says with conviction |
AVERS |
Senator Feinstein |
DIANNE |
Sign of summer? |
LEO |
Smell of holiday cookies, for instance |
AROMA |
Snakes by the Nile |
ASPS |
Sounded shocked |
GASPED |
Split in two |
BISECT |
Spring training time |
PRESEASON |
Stir in |
ADD |
That sow |
HER |
Toronto is on its shore (4 to 6) |
LAKEONTARIO |
Tubular pasta |
PENNE |
Turkic people (STRATA anagram) |
TATARS |
Ukrainian port |
ODESSA |
Unduly |
TOO |
University where the Clintons met |
YALE |
Usually broad road: Abbr |
AVE |
Vendor |
SELLER |
Waste little by little (6 to 8) |
FRITTERAWAY |
Water balloon sound |
SPLAT |
Wear down |
ERODE |
Went wild |
RANRIOT |
What a go-getter is often full of |
ENERGY |
What old mattresses do |
SAG |
Win-win |
NOLOSE |
Word within “Miami-Dade” |
AMID |
Yankee’s Baltimore rival |
ORIOLE |
___ moment |
AHA |