Here are the answers to Universal Crossword puzzles Wednesday April 21 2021.
“All right already!” – OKOK
“Amazing!” – WHOA
“Boy” or “girl” lead-in – ATTA
“Confound it!” – DRAT
“I double-dog ___ you!” – DARE
“Who wouldn’t want to date me?!” – IMACATCH
“___ on earth?” – WHAT
“___! The Herald Angels Sing” – HARK
11-year-old, say – TWEEN
2004-’05 NBA Rookie of the Year Okafor – EMEKA
3/4, e.g., in music – TIMESIGNATURE
Agenda component – ITEM
Bashes into – RAMS
Believer in a turban – SIKH
Big ___ (7-Eleven drink) – GULP
Birds with big eyes – OWLS
Buckingham Palace service? – TEASET
Charitable ad, briefly – PSA
Cheater’s sound during a test – PSST
Chimpanzees and bonobos – APES
Competition within Miss America but not Miss Universe – TALENTPORTION
Complain – CARP
Cookbook author Curry – AYESHA
Declare – ASSERT
Device with a phased-out Shuffle variety – IPOD
Driver’s license org – DMV
Dull and dreary – DRAB
EGOT winner Moreno – RITA
Embrace – HOLD
Greta Thunberg, nationality-wise – SWEDE
Have plenty of vegetables, say – EATRIGHT
Have the final turn – GOLAST
Hawaiian greeting – ALOHA
Helper on the hill – AIDE
Hole-enlarging tool – REAMER
Honeymooners’ hotel booking – SUITE
Landlocked African nation – MALI
Leave – EXIT
Letters before a pseudonym – AKA
Med. research agency – NIH
Middling – SOSO
Most gauzy – SHEEREST
Nobelist Tokarczuk or Olympic medalist Korbut – OLGA
Not eliminated – INIT
Not just think – KNOW
Noted stretches – ERAS
Nutrition fig – RDA
Offshore – ASEA
On-screen parent such as Lorelai Gilmore – TVMOM
Ones deserving of respect – ELDERS
Org. fighting to end bullfighting – PETA
Queen’s domain – REALM
Roma’s home – ITALIA
Savory fish appetizer – CODCAKE
Sharpen – HONE
Soccer ball filler – AIR
Sometimes-baked cheese – BRIE
Sound from a tabby – MEOW
Source of laughs at the end of a comedy? – GAGREEL
Sphynxes might sit on them – CATTREES
Thing an anxious writer may chew – PENCAP
This’ partner – THAT
This, in Spanish – ESTO
Thompson who qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open at age 12 – LEXI
Title for Obama’s satirical assistant Luther – ANGERTRANSLATOR
Top of an organizational chart, and a hint to the first words of 3-, 8- and 17-Down – UPPERMANAGEMENT
Transcript figs – GPAS
Unstressed vowel – SCHWA
Wishful words – IHOPE
Word before “Grail” or “Ghost” – HOLY
Zilch – NADA
___ common denominator – LEAST
