Here are the answers to Universal Crossword puzzles Thursday December 17, 2020.
‘Am I still meeting you later?’ – AREWEON
‘Black Dog’ singer Parks – ARLO
‘It’s so obvious!’ – CANTYOUSEE
‘Ooh, so close!’ – NICETRY
‘Quickly!’ – ASAP
69-Across network – NPR
Absence – LACK
Actress ___ Elise Goldsberry – RENEE
Anxious feeling – AGITA
App symbol – ICON
Apple pie recipe verb – PEEL
Appropriate anagram of ‘note’ – TONE
Backgammon cubes – DICE
Being transmitted via small screen – ONTV
Capital on the Nile – CAIRO
Caribou relative – ELK
Cat’s ‘fingernails’ – CLAWS
Charlotte’s creation – WEB
Claims – SAYS
College cafeteria – DININGHALL
Correct some grammar, maybe – EDIT
Credit alternative – CASH
Curtis Mayfield genre – SOUL
Deadlock – TIE
Dec. 31 – NYE
Family nickname – SIS
Fast Bolt – USAIN
Fridge decoration – MAGNET
Get before it’s gone – SNAG
Ginger ___ – ALE
Income ___ – GAP
Ingredient in some maki – ROE
Journalist Cornish – AUDIE
Lacking oomph – DRAB
Last part – TAILEND
Letter before gamma – BETA
Like a lot of the attire in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ – DEMURE
Like some night skies – STARLIT
Lots and lots – ATON
Lymph ___ – NODES
Major fuss – ADO
Mame gohan veggies – PEAS
Oat milk lover, often – VEGAN
Opposite of good – EVIL
Papers and magazines – PRINTMEDIA
Part of a fancy place setting, maybe – NAPKINRING
Pesto morsel – PINENUT
Pianist Vienna – TENG
Place for a withdrawal – ATM
Place that might have fume hoods – LAB
Place to order rose – WINEBAR
Portobello ___ – STEAK
Position played by Courtney Vandersloot – POINTGUARD
Prefix for ‘conforming’ – NON
Published – RAN
Rage – IRE
Rainbow shape – ARC
Removed crabgrass, maybe – WEEDED
Revisits before book club, perhaps – REREADS
Selfie consideration – ANGLE
Shade – HUE
Slip ‘N Slide need – HOSE
Small bed size – TWIN
Snow transport – SLED
South Indian language – TELUGU
Sticky substances – TARS
Suffix for a fruity drink – ADE
Suffix for a superlative – EST
The ‘a’ in a.m – ANTE
The Wobble and the Electric Slide – LINEDANCES
Tool for a knitter – NEEDLE
Use a rowing machine – ERG
Was victorious over – BESTED
Wasp’s home – NEST
Word after ‘cat’ or ‘power’ – NAP
___ Bae (uniformed ‘Insecure’ character) – TSA
___ cycle (something tracked in a fertility app) – OVARIAN
___ to (take care of) – TEND
“Eureka!” – AHA
“High Voltage” band – ACDC
“I mean business” stares – STERNLOOKS
“One more thing …” in a text – BTW
“That’s adorable!” – AWW
“That’s already on my radar” – IMAWARE
*Campus bigwig – COLLEGEDEAN
*Fossil fuel source – COALDEPOSIT
*Inc. Magazine issue? – CORPORATEDEBT
*Minimal moral standard – COMMONDECENCY
12-point type – PICA
4.0s on an academic list, e.g – GPAS
Already recognized – KNOWN
Andy Samberg’s old show, for short – SNL
Anytown, ___ – USA
Big name in chemicals – DOW
Brainchild – IDEA
British commoner who can use the title “Sir” – BARONET
Campus email ending – EDU
Canonized Fr. woman – STE
Certain cutting tool – HANDSAW
Chinese gambling region – MACAU
Come together – UNITE
Copenhagen native – DANE
Cube root of 1,000 – TEN
Dance move that resembles sneeze hygiene – DAB
Danglers on turkey necks – WATTLES
Distance units for QBs – YDS
Dolphin’s environment – SEA
Driving course obstacle – CONE
Dude – BUB
Eight: Prefix – OCTO
Encrypted terms, or a hint to the first two letters of both parts of the starred answers? – CODEWORDS
Feline greeting – MEOW
Fights off – REPELS
Flashy effect – ECLAT
FORMAT OF THIS CLUE – ALLCAPS
Former MLB commissioner Bud – SELIG
Gathers, as wheat – REAPS
Get into the pool? – BET
Gin’s partner – TONIC
Grand ___ National Park – TETON
Green prefix – ECO
Indian garb – SARI
Judge Lance – ITO
Layer of paint – COAT
Look after the kids – BABYSIT
Make a cartoon of – ANIMATE
Martinez with three Cy Young Awards – PEDRO
Material in your genes – DNA
Math-based card game – SET
Nickname for Shakespeare – THEBARD
October birthstone – OPAL
Oscar winner Hathaway – ANNE
Pina ___ – COLADA
Place for a microphone’s plug – AUDIOINPUT
Prefix with “second” or “technology” – NANO
Remote button for taping – REC
Rep.’s counterpart – DEM
Revolutionary Trotsky – LEON
Salary before bonuses – BASEPAY
Saskatchewan tribe – CREE
Spanish “a” – UNA
Strung along romantically – LEDON
Surfer’s address? – URL
Symbol on a phone screen – ICON
Tarnish – MAR
Toledo’s lake – ERIE
Undecided, on a TV sched – TBA
Universal donor’s blood type: Abbr – ONEG
Upper-left PC key – ESC
Where lying is always acceptable? – INBED
Wonder Woman’s rope – LASSO
Wrigley Field team, familiarly – THECUBS
XII, during the day – NOON
___ Alto – PALO
