Universal – Jul 12 2023
Universal – Jul 12 2023
Clues | Answers |
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“20 Mule Team” cleaning product | BORAX |
“Gotta hurry!” | IMLATE |
“Happy” bivalve | CLAM |
“I Like ___” (’50s campaign slogan) | IKE |
“Later!” | BYE |
“The Fox and the Grapes” fable writer | AESOP |
“We need help!” | SOS |
“What ___ can I say?” | ELSE |
Agreement at sea | AYE |
Animal that goes heehaw | ASS |
Apt rhyme for “bore” | SNORE |
Attractively small | PETITE |
Be nosy | PRY |
Big test | EXAM |
Billionaire’s boat | YACHT |
Certain beachy looks | SPRAYTANS |
Chemist’s Sn | TIN |
Clacked on a keyboard | TYPED |
Common city street name | MAIN |
Coral rings | ATOLLS |
Corp. honcho | EXEC |
Days of old | YORE |
Dickinson who penned “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” | EMILY |
Doing nothing | IDLING |
Dropping the ball, say | ERROR |
Drubbing | ROUT |
Enterprise alternative | HERTZ |
Eye part that may be blue | IRIS |
Future fish | ROE |
Garb | ATTIRE |
Get-up-and-go | VIM |
Google browser | CHROME |
Greek Z | ZETA |
Group of eight | OCTET |
HS diploma substitute | GED |
Jazz genre | BOP |
Large, low-pitched brass | TUBA |
Least colorful | PALEST |
Like bad puns | CORNY |
Clues | Answers |
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London museum home to Warhol’s “Marilyn Diptych” | TATE |
Low on cash | SHORT |
Mineral such as magnetite | ORE |
Name hidden in “casts a shadow” | SASHA |
Navigational chart | MAP |
New York Times columnist Klein | EZRA |
Offer that seems too good to be true, usually | SCAM |
Online auction site | EBAY |
Overdone publicity | HYPE |
Pleasing part of a song | MELODY |
Prescription for a farmer? | CABBAGEPATCH |
Prescription for an archaeologist? | STONETABLET |
Prescription for an astronaut? | SPACECAPSULE |
Prescription for an electrician? | VOLTAGEDROP |
Racy reading | SMUT |
Radiates, as confidence | EXUDES |
Recedes | EBBS |
Repeating sequence of computer code | LOOP |
Rigatoni relative | ZITI |
Salt Lake City’s state | UTAH |
Shoestring | LACE |
Sibling’s daughter | NIECE |
Sign on for more | REUP |
Sport whose competitors wear masks | EPEE |
Streaming device brand | ROKU |
Superlative suffix | EST |
Surgery centers, briefly | ORS |
Teacher’s ___ | PET |
Tempt | ENTICE |
Throw, slangily | YEET |
Timeline component | ERA |
Tooth pain | ACHE |
Trendy berry | ACAI |
Unsightly sight | EYESORE |
When many are watching | PRIMETIME |
Widely shared GIF, say | MEME |
Wine choice | RED |
Worked well together | MESHED |
___-weenie | TEENIE |