Here are the answers to Universal Crossword puzzles Wednesday March 24, 2021.
“Frozen” reindeer – SVEN
“I’m impressed!” – OOH
“I’m not impressed” – MEH
“Surely you ___!” – JEST
“You had one ___!” – JOB
*Chardonnay served at a state dinner, say? – WHITEHOUSEWHITE
*Intergalactic makers’ studio? (hint: read each starred answer’s middle word twice) – SPACECRAFTSPACE
*Retaliation for overdue wages? – BACKPAYBACK
*Where Fred Flintstone goes to get away from it all? – CAVEMANCAVE
2019 film that won Best Picture – PARASITE
Actress Rowlands – GENA
Add wrong, perhaps – ERR
Ball gown fabric – TAFFETA
Birthday party performers – CLOWNS
Bread for Swiss cheese? – FRANC
Chest press targets, informally – PECS
Dashboard Confessional genre – EMO
Depilatory brand – NAIR
Dole out – ALLOT
Eclipse, to some – OMEN
Enlist again – REUP
Extended family – CLAN
Formal agreements – PACTS
Genre for Nicki Minaj – HIPHOP
GPS calculations – ETAS
Guitar strummer – PICK
Guy in a toy box? – JACK
Hot day – SCORCHER
If all else fails – INAPINCH
In store – TOCOME
Insurance cases – CLAIMS
Kind of hormone – SEX
Like some affordable textbooks – USED
Like some hard cider – DRY
Long-eared animals – ASSES
Megan Rapinoe’s team – USA
Mineral deposits – ORES
Model Holliday – TESS
Moderate gait – TROT
Negative replies – NOS
Network connections – NODES
New York NBA player – KNICK
Nonbinary possessive – THEIR
Not many – FEW
One often on the rebound? – CENTER
Pack leaders – ALPHAS
Played music at a club – DJED
Prepare for takeoff – TAXI
Present opening? – OMNI
Puffed snack – RICECAKE
Queue – LINE
Quick look – PEEK
Region – AREA
Replace, electorally – VOTEOUT
Runway display – FASHION
Sandal feature – OPENTOE
Shorthand pros – STENOS
Similar (to) – AKIN
Sixth sense, for short – ESP
Skating gold medalist Lipinski – TARA
Snowballs, in a snowball fight – AMMO
Soviet spy org – KGB
Speech-language pathologist’s concerns – LISPS
Startled cry – EEK
T, on a sorority sweatshirt – TAU
Texter’s “Then again …” – OTOH
Tidy – NEAT
Toenail treatment, informally – PEDI
Trains in the ring – SPARS
Upper-left key – ESC
Upstate New York tribe – ONEIDA
Wee bit – TAD
What an electric guitar hooks up to – AMP
Word after “boarding” or “touchdown” – PASS
___ shanty – SEA
___-full – CHOCK
