Here are the answers to Universal Crossword puzzles Monday January 18, 2021.
“Beautiful” place of song – AMERICA
“Buenas ___!” (Spanish for “Good night!”) – NOCHES
“Don’t stay out too late,” literally? – BEHOMEDARK
“You first,” literally? – AGEBEAUTY
“Your grades are slipping,” literally? – CLASSSEEME
1/2 x base x height, for a triangle – AREA
3 button letters – DEF
4/, in a date – APRIL
Acquires – GETS
Agent after top secret info – MOLE
Alerts about missing people, perhaps: Abbr – APBS
Angela Merkel, e.g – GERMAN
Apply carelessly, like paint – SLAPON
Apt lead-in to “fix” – PRE
Assenting nonverbally – NODDING
Bolted – RAN
Card in a blackjack – ACE
Cold seafood dish with mayo – SHRIMPSALAD
Commercial break lead-in, literally? – THISRIGHT
Corn part – COB
Cybersecurity org – NSA
Digital ___ camera – SLR
Discourage – DETER
Early Mexican corn – MAIZE
Event featuring paintings – ARTFAIR
Famed elevator man – OTIS
Flat-panel TV type – LCD
Free-for-all – MELEE
Gives kibble to, say – FEEDS
Half a paper bundle – REAM
Having a cushion – PADDED
How origami paper is folded – NEATLY
In most cases – ASARULE
In need of a rubdown – SORE
It’s lower in mini golf than in golf – PAR
Large unit for explosives – MEGATON
Like many North Africans – ARAB
Like some poetry – EPIC
Loud kiss – SMACK
Muay Thai fighter’s weapon – KNEE
Notoriously finicky pets – CATS
Old airline with a K.C. museum – TWA
One may be settled in small-claims court – DISPUTE
One of Donald Duck’s nephews – LOUIE
Org. encouraging flu shots – CDC
Out of the wind – ALEE
Pacing, perhaps – ANTSY
Painter’s frame – EASEL
Parting exclamation – TATA
Protein synthesis mol – RNA
Protestant work ___ – ETHIC
Quahog or geoduck – CLAM
Rap’s ___ Khalifa – WIZ
Relatively new relative – INLAW
Rule that “weird” violates, literally? – IECEXCEPT
Scottish form of John – IAN
Served cold – ONICE
Sight on the back of a dollar bill – EYE
Simple ball game – CATCH
Singles who rotate to meet other singles – SPEEDDATERS
Skippy competitor – JIF
Small, cutesily – LIL
Smallest possible party – ONE
Some H.S. exams – PSATS
Spy grp. until 1991 – KGB
Stuff in a box – MAIL
Surrounded by – AMONGST
Tart ingredient, in two ways – LEMON
Tool that’s sharpened – AXE
Towel off – DRY
Twisted fastener – TIE
Viking ship tool – OAR
Wetlands – MARSHES
Work unit – JOULE
___ & World Report – USNEWS
___ a soul – NARY
