Universal Clues and Answers February 28, 2024
Author: by Paul Coulter
Across
Unimportant | MINOR |
Secluded valley | GLEN |
Top spot | ACME |
Without equal | ALONE |
Latest craze | RAGE |
“Go ahead!” | DOIT |
How you can spell “anger”? | OUTOFRANGE |
OR workers | DOCS |
Alt. spelling | VAR |
“As I was going to St. ___ …” | IVES |
Like many older siblings | BOSSY |
Modernize | UPDATE |
Coal container | BIN |
What you can spell “cellar” with? | RECALLLETTERS |
Tangle | SNARL |
Sensitive subject for some | AGE |
Nickname hidden in “two-piece” | OPIE |
Horse food | HAY |
Instruction for spelling “race?” | USECARE |
Hoppy brew, briefly | IPA |
Keats poems | ODES |
Cheer in Chihuahua | OLE |
Workout spots for some | YMCAS |
What you can spell “cheeps” with? | PARTSOFSPEECH |
Japanese currency | YEN |
Perplexes | ADDLES |
Athlete’s best effort | AGAME |
Hot spot for a pot | KILN |
Origami, for one | ART |
Spelling unrelated to this puzzle’s theme | TORI |
How you can spell “aboard”? | FROMABROAD |
“Put your wallet away” | ONME |
Subway route | LINE |
Stinks | REEKS |
Difficult situation | MESS |
KGB’s place | USSR |
Beginning phase | ONSET |
Down
Leader of China’s Cultural Revolution | MAO |
Fond message on a candy heart | ILUVU |
“Never!” | NOTAPRAYER |
Like a product that’s coming | ONORDER |
NFL whistle blower | REF |
Rocky driveway surface | GRAVEL |
Narrow street | LANE |
Baker’s dozen? | EGGS |
Born, in bios | NEE |
Expand, as a house | ADDONTO |
Whispers sweet nothings | COOS |
They might be dropped onstage | MICS |
Site with homemade candles | ETSY |
“Lovely” Beatles girl | RITA |
What may be boring? | BIT |
Org. fighting censorship | ACLU |
“Cold one” | BEER |
Shoestrings | LACES |
NYC airport | LGA |
Aeneas and Odysseus | EPICHEROES |
Talk show host Kelly | RIPA |
Wet septet | SEAS |
Boutique | SHOP |
Zilch | NADA |
Any day now | SOON |
One with a pole position? | ELF |
Watched closely | EYED |
Obstructs | STYMIES |
British sports car | MCLAREN |
Word before “red” or “the light” | SEE |
Golfer Arnold who had a fan army | PALMER |
“Giant” author Ferber | EDNA |
Share in a business | STAKE |
Elemental particle | ATOM |
Eaten up | GONE |
Elbows’ limbs | ARMS |
Kendall Jenner’s mom | KRIS |
Charged particles | IONS |
Kind of shot given annually | FLU |
Dude | BRO |
It starts in Mar. | DST |