Here are the answers to Universal Crossword puzzles Friday March 5, 2021.
“Get it?” – SEE
“My deepest apologies” – SOSORRY
“The Answer Is …” memoirist Alex – TREBEK
“What gall!” – SOMENERVE
1992 Stacey Dash rom-com featuring a credit card con – MOMONEY
Alaskan city on the Bering Sea – NOME
Antagonist in “Coco” – ERNESTO
Benedict’s nickname, maybe – NED
Bit of hope, metaphorically – RAY
Coat, as with chocolate – ENROBE
Combined, as assets – POOLED
Come to a point – TAPER
Common duck – MALLARD
Container for gratuities – TIPJAR
Daughter’s sibling, perhaps – SON
Day care enrollee – TOT
Deeds list them – OWNERS
Doneness option for a burger – RARE
Donkey – ASS
Dough dispensers – ATMS
Drill instructor’s rank, often: Abbr – SGT
E.R. employees – RNS
Faith with Five Pillars – ISLAM
Far from feral – TAME
Frolicking marine mammals – OTTERS
Got going – STARTED
Groups that improvise songs – JAMBANDS
Gucci of fashion fame – ALDO
Hot and humid – STEAMY
Illegally assist – ABET
In the manner of – ALA
Inquires – ASKS
Jacuzzi product – SPA
Jousting horses – STEEDS
Khaki color – TAN
Khloe, to Kim, informally – SIS
Libertarians’ 2020 presidential candidate – JOJORGENSEN
Like a straight shooter – NONONSENSE
Long period of time – EON
Looking down on – ABOVE
Nativity scene figure – JESUS
Need for catching butterflies – NET
News anchor’s hand-off line – OVERTOYOU
Nuts in some pies – PECANS
Peach stone – PIT
Period of time – ERA
Piece in a mosaic – TILE
Put together, like an anthology – COMPILE
Raw or burnt color – SIENNA
Real comedian – RIOT
Roach or rat – PEST
Sci-fi collection first published in 1950 – IROBOT
Scoring partner? – COCOMPOSER
Signify – DENOTE
Single-celled organism – AMOEBA
Site of a University of Washington satellite campus – TACOMA
Skin pic – TAT
Small island – CAY
Statues’ midsections – TORSOS
Stave off – AVERT
Strong wine – PORT
Suffuse – IMBUE
Testing phase – TRIALRUN
The ___ Moines Register – DES
They become wind instruments when “f” is added – LUTES
Toward the stern – AFT
Trivia host’s clue – HINT
Tunneling insects – ANTS
Unfortunate occurrence – MISHAP
Unruly kid – IMP
Use a needle and thread – SEW
Wet dirt – MUD
Word paired with “neither” – NOR
Zellweger with two Oscars – RENEE
___ Mahal – TAJ
___ row (stretch in many a college town) – FRAT
