Here are the answers to Universal Crossword puzzles Thursday September 16 2021.
“A likely story!” – HAH
“For ___ a Jolly Good Fellow” – HES
“Friends” character with a Ph.D – ROSS
“I’m a little teapot/Short and ___” – STOUT
“Let’s see you do better!” – TOPTHIS
“Pecos Bill” or “Paul Bunyan” – FOLKTALE
Abominable snowmen – YETIS
Affirmatives – YESES
Anger – IRE
Baba ghanoush ingredient – EGGPLANT
Backstabber – RAT
Battery size – AAA
Become established – TAKEROOT
Before long, to a poet – ANON
Big name in outdoor gear – REI
Bird that hoots – OWL
Bit of aerobic exercise – STEP
Brusque – TERSE
Buenos ___ – AIRES
Campus military org – ROTC
Candor – HONESTY
Cleopatra’s snake – ASP
Common fast-food side order – FRIES
Composer Copland – AARON
Construction spots – SITES
Contents of some palettes … or what 17-Across, 11-Down and 31-Down could be, given that their starts are rivers? – WATERCOLORS
Drink such as liebfraumilch – RHINEWINE
Elevator pioneer – OTIS
Extended family – CLAN
Extol – LAUD
Former legal drama that starred Susan Dey – LALAW
Fragrant neckwear – LEI
Heart record, for short – ECG
High up – ALOFT
Howled – BAYED
Ice-cream treat served with a straw – FLOAT
Inedible fruit that surprisingly isn’t a citrus – OSAGEORANGE
Initial bit of progress – TOEHOLD
Its first letter doesn’t stand for “bread” – BLT
John, in England – LOO
Like “Candy Crush” purchases – INAPP
Line with triangles, on a weather map – FRONT
Lose your temper – SNAP
Lucifer – THEDEVIL
Metaphor for a potential crisis – LANDMINE
Middle meal – LUNCH
Monotonous routines – RUTS
Montoya in “The Princess Bride” – INIGO
Mortgage change, for short – REFI
New York NBA team – KNICKS
No ___ in sight – END
Not throw away, say – REUSE
Not us – THEM
One may be short-sleeved – TEE
Oui’s opposite – NON
Pampered one? – TOT
Person celebrated in June – DAD
Pooh’s pink pal – PIGLET
Potato variety developed in Canada – YUKONGOLD
Relative of a man cave – SHESHED
Rene of “Ransom” – RUSSO
Saint of Hollywood – EVAMARIE
Saratoga or Daytona – RACEWAY
So far – ASYET
Southern Plains native – KIOWA
Split, like a hoof – CLOVEN
Stretching muscles – TENSORS
The way things are going – TREND
Track shapes – OVALS
Trudge – PLOD
Up-and-coming whiz – PHENOM
What the truth does, per Lizzo – HURTS
Yang’s counterpart – YIN
You may bid or build on it – LOT
