Universal Crossword July 16 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the Universal Crossword published on July 16 2026.
- 78
- Total Clues
- 37
- Total Across
- 41
- Total Down
Clues Across (37 total)
(1)
World's top-selling cookie
The answer is: oreo
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Used a broom
The answer is: swept
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Go by
The answer is: pass
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Coal chunk
The answer is: lump
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Indiana NBA player
The answer is: pacer
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(16)
Woody's folk-singing son
The answer is: arlo
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(17)
Parting words in "The Sound of Music"
The answer is: adieuadieu
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Authentic
The answer is: real
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Plants with fronds
The answer is: ferns
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(21)
Gorilla, e.g.
The answer is: greatape
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(Did you forget I'm here?)
The answer is: ahem
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(26)
Cunning
The answer is: sly
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Academic field for which you may learn Old English
The answer is: medievalstudies
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(35)
Ginger ___
The answer is: ale
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"Jerry Maguire" star Zellweger
The answer is: renee
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(37)
Chop finely
The answer is: mince
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(38)
Prep, as a plane in winter
The answer is: deice
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Ruby or emerald
The answer is: gem
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Lowly worker
The answer is: peon
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With 50-Across, classic hit
The answer is: anoldie
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"You ain't seen nothin' ___"
The answer is: yet
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(48)
Trains to Wrigley Field
The answer is: els
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Flowing locks
The answer is: mane
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(50)
See 43-Across
The answer is: butagoodie
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Guy seen on the Food Network
The answer is: fieri
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(55)
Palindromic Korean word for "dad"
The answer is: appa
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Brew with major hops
The answer is: ipa
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"Move on!"
The answer is: dropit
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(61)
What Taylor Swift has more of than geological time
The answer is: eras
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(64)
Kathmandu native
The answer is: nepali
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Ideal vacation spot ... or a phonetic hint to a word hidden twice in 17-, 27- or 43-/50-Across
The answer is: paradise
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Snapple competitor
The answer is: nestea
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(69)
Divas have big ones
The answer is: egos
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___ de los Muertos
The answer is: dia
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(71)
Risk getting pulled over
The answer is: speed
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(72)
Puts on
The answer is: dons
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Unit of corn
The answer is: ear
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Clues Down (41 total)
(1)
"Frozen" snowman
The answer is: olaf
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Impolite
The answer is: rude
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Middle Eastern bigwig
The answer is: emir
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Company behind ChatGPT
The answer is: openai
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Place to unwind
The answer is: spa
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Bundle of bills
The answer is: wad
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Vaping device
The answer is: ecig
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Social equal
The answer is: peer
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Most loyal
The answer is: truest
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It can have seven layers
The answer is: partydip
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___ 51 (alien site?)
The answer is: area
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(12)
Really rock, in slang
The answer is: slap
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Shoe part
The answer is: sole
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(18)
Showed guests their seats
The answer is: ushered
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(22)
HS reunion attendee
The answer is: alum
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Time for final holiday prep, say
The answer is: eve
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"Geez!"
The answer is: man
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Sir's counterpart
The answer is: madam
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(28)
Justice Kagan
The answer is: elena
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Sanders who played for the Falcons
The answer is: deion
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(30)
Relay race unit
The answer is: leg
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(31)
"I gotta jet"
The answer is: seeya
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(32)
Words before requesting an Uber
The answer is: ineedaride
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Reason for a food recall
The answer is: ecoli
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Taste or touch
The answer is: sense
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(39)
Musical opener?
The answer is: clef
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(41)
Transformers' archenemy
The answer is: megatron
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Spain's peninsula
The answer is: iberia
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Coin with 44-Down pictured on it
The answer is: euro
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Bottom's opposite
The answer is: top
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Supported a busker
The answer is: tipped
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(52)
Columnist's piece
The answer is: oped
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Did nothing
The answer is: idled
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Rustic hotels
The answer is: inns
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(57)
Chewy Easter treat
The answer is: peep
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Church recess
The answer is: apse
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Emilia's husband in "Othello"
The answer is: iago
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Home to seven "-stans"
The answer is: asia
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Burn on the grill
The answer is: sear
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(65)
Had a nibble
The answer is: ate
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A beast of burden
The answer is: ass
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