Here are the answers to Universal Crossword puzzles Thursday April 8 2021.
“In this manner” – LIKESO
4,132-mile-long river – NILE
Battle plan element – TACTIC
Be free – HAVETIME
Benjamin’s love in “The Graduate” – ELAINE
Blasting letters – TNT
BMW rival – AUDI
Boss’s boss’s boss, perhaps: Abbr – CEO
Boy, in Bogota – NINO
By way of – VIA
Changed, as the Constitution – AMENDED
Chaos – HAVOC
Church affirmation – AMEN
Common reaction to dust – ACHOO
Common response from a therapist – ISEE
Concert worker who kicks out overzealous fans? – STANREMOVER
Construction site sight – CRANE
Crew member’s need – OAR
Deejayed? – RANDANCES
Department store chain – JCPENNEY
Detest – ABHOR
Egyptian fertility goddess – ISIS
End of many a hotel name – INN
Fat removal procedure, briefly – LIPO
Fill, as a truck – LOAD
Grand Canyon viewing location – RIM
Hydrox competitor – OREO
It may be metropolitan – AREA
Jacob’s brother – ESAU
Kung ___ chicken – PAO
Landed – ALIT
Later than – AFTER
Lessen, like a burden – EASE
Little whirlpools – EDDIES
Lose steam – TIRE
Md. athlete – TERP
Meat at an omelet bar – HAM
Mine, in Marseille – AMOI
More weird – EERIER
Motionless – INERT
Motivated – INSPIRED
Number within “loneliest” – ONE
Nyets, in New York – NOS
Off the ground – MIDAIR
Office fill-in – TEMP
One may have a hole for a straw – LID
Overcharge? – PADTHEPRICE
Overthink, maybe – READINTO
Peace activist Yoko – ONO
Pentagon org – DOD
Philadelphia-to-Albany dir – NNE
Prez who served in WWII – IKE
Recovering from surgery, informally – POSTOP
Result of a cereal factory malfunction? – BRANSTORM
See 64-Across – EYEOUT
Sheep enclosures – PENS
Sign for the superstitious – OMEN
Sister of Venus – SERENA
Sixteenth of a pound – OUNCE
Sound systems – STEREOS
Stop meeting indefinitely – ADJOURN
Stranded by a winter storm – ICEDIN
Stubbornly demand – INSIST
The moon’s ___ of Tranquility – SEA
Thinker’s counterpart? – DOER
Touch of rouge – DAB
Umbrella that isn’t designed to keep you dry – PARASOL
Wedding dessert – CAKE
Wedding dessert layer – TIER
What chickens come home to do, in a saying – ROOST
With 67-Across, stay alert (for) … and a phonetic theme hint – KEEPAN
Word with “reading” or “oil” – PALM
___ Aviv – TEL
___ center (community space) – REC
___ sighting – UFO
___-a-brac – BRIC
