Here are the answers to Universal Crossword puzzles Tuesday August 10 2021.
“Er, uh-uh” – UMNO
“Handling that right now!” – ONIT
“Moana” demigod – MAUI
“This 3 p.m. crash is hitting me hard!” – INEEDANAP
“You’ve got mail!” company – AOL
2, 4, 6, 8 and so on – EVENS
Airport area – GATE
Alarm clock toggle – AMPM
Alphabetically first noble gas – ARGON
Apartment payment – RENT
Arabian capital whose name has three A’s – SANAA
Athlete’s best effort – AGAME
Board whose name combines two words for “yes” – OUIJA
Butler of “300” – GERARD
Camera initials – SLR
Camera memory chip – SDCARD
Capital of Latvia – RIGA
Catan resource – ORE
Chatter – YAP
Chest-pumping skill: Abbr – CPR
City of Love … and the Louvre – PARIS
Comfy – SNUG
Competes in a musical battle – RAPS
Core components? – ABS
Crime group – MAFIA
Delight – JOY
Device with tuners – RADIO
Dog breed from Japan – AKITA
Doles (out) – METES
Easy basketball shot – LAYUP
Falco of “The Sopranos” – EDIE
Fizzling noise – PFFT
Foldable bed – COT
Founding Father Thomas – PAINE
Gear teeth – COGS
Gently urge – COAX
George Carlin became the first one in ’75 – SNLHOST
Get on in years – AGE
Getting on in years – OLD
Goes up – RISES
Good engine noise – PURR
Got an A+ on, perhaps – ACED
Great way to be rewarded – AMPLY
Hangs out in the backyard, say? – DRIES
Ibiza, por ejemplo – ISLA
Inside looks? – XRAYS
Italian lawn bowling – BOCCE
Ivy in the Keystone State, familiarly – PENN
Kit ___ – KAT
Leaf-gathering tool – RAKE
Little bird’s sound – PEEP
Loki’s home, in Marvel movies – ASGARD
Mario ___ (racing game) – KART
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, for one – TEST
Network point – NODE
Not touch with a ten-foot pole – AVOID
Ones who eat a fully plant-based diet – VEGANS
Org. symbolized by an elephant – GOP
Overly complimentary article – PUFFPIECE
Photographer Goldin – NAN
Pigpens – STIES
Places for soaks – SPAS
Poet T.S – ELIOT
Politician Andrew – YANG
Shape of Martin Luther King Jr.’s moral universe – ARC
Softball glove – MITT
Sugar substitute – STEVIA
Sycophant – LAPDOG
Tears apart – RENDS
The basics – ABCS
The chicken thief tried to ___ – LIFTAFINGER
The chocolate thief tried to ___ – STEALAKISS
The dessert thief tried to ___ – TAKETHECAKE
The whiskey thief tried to ___ – GRABADRINK
Treat with a hole – DONUT
Warning sign – REDFLAG
What holds water? – DAM
___ alla vodka – PENNE
