Universal – Jan 4, 2024, Clues and Answers
Clues | Answers |
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“I’m ready for another customer!” | NEXT |
“Stop rushin’ me!” | INASEC |
A real lifesaver, briefly | EMT |
Actress Kurylenko | OLGA |
Ankle injuries | SPRAINS |
Annoying person | PEST |
Around 10 p.m., say | LATISH |
Arrived home feetfirst, perhaps | SLID |
Associate’s, for one | DEGREE |
At any time | EVER |
Auto fuel | GAS |
Barely edible serving | SLOP |
Bathroom flooring, often | TILE |
Biopsy and others (… letter 11 + 3 letters around it. Then note what the single indicated letters spell!) | DIAGNOSTICTESTS |
Birth control option, for short | IUD |
Broadway’s Lupone | PATTI |
Captivates | CHARMS |
Certain rotation on a Ping-Pong ball | TOPSPIN |
Channel parodied in “Dodgeball” | ESPN |
Character in “Girl, Interrupted”? | COMMA |
Chi-___ (Windy City) | TOWN |
Chooses | SELECTS |
Cincinnati team | REDS |
Counter in court | REBUT |
Department store chain | KOHLS |
Device downloads | APPS |
Dig (into) | DELVE |
Dogfish Head brew, for short | IPA |
Dosage unit (In this answer, note letter 6 + 3 letters around it) | CUBICCENTIMETER |
Downeaster train operator | AMTRAK |
Extra-virgin ___ oil | OLIVE |
Female fowl | HEN |
Flamenco cheer | OLE |
Gobbled up | ATE |
Grad | ALUM |
H, in Greece | ETA |
If everything goes right | ATBEST |
Intensify | DEEPEN |
Clues | Answers |
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Its muscles are worked by heel raises | CALF |
Just | FAIR |
Lay bare | EXPOSE |
Mexican food often eaten with a tilted head | TACO |
Microscope component | LENS |
More, in Spain | MAS |
New Year in Nha Trang | TET |
Nickname that drops -rence | FLO |
Nobel Peace Center’s world capital | OSLO |
Nonstandard nickname for L.A.’s state | CALI |
Not fancy | PLAIN |
Not feeling so hot | ILL |
Out group? | EDITORS |
Perfect | IDEAL |
Pillage | MARAUD |
Poetic shoutout | ODE |
Primp | PREEN |
Put away | STOW |
Rearranges in Excel | SORTS |
Root in some Terra chips | TARO |
Sad | BLUE |
Scottish lake | LOCH |
Shoe Cinderella lost | SLIPPER |
Sir Mix-a-___ | LOT |
Sneaker brand | AVIA |
Spotify alternative | TIDAL |
Start of a football game | KICKOFF |
Start of a Pride initialism | LGBT |
Tale featuring Achilles | ILIAD |
Tire material | RUBBER |
Tons | SCADS |
Took to court | SUED |
TV spots? (… letter 5 + 3 letters around it) | MEDIACENTERS |
Up in the air, on a schedule: Abbr | TBA |
Vape shop purchase | ECIG |
Water has a high one (… letter 9 + 3 letters around it) | SPECIFICHEAT |
___ vault (athletic event) | POLE |
___-Cola | COCA |