Universal Crossword January 8, 2026 Answers

1. Dance version of a song, say 6. Vessel for frying 9. Uses a spatula while frying 14. Nice smell 15. Historic period 16. Goosebump-inducing 17. Italian fashion capital 18. Modern believers in many gods 20. Scratching post user (Note the last 3 letters of this answer + ...) 22. "Ancient grain" that's actually a seed (... the first 6 letters of this answer) 23. Part of a lowercase J 25. "___ that special?" 26. Treat rudely via phone (Last 3 letters + ...) 31. Canadian $2 coin (... first 4 letters) 35. ___ vera jelly 36. Make more lean 38. Sphere 39. Web destination 40. Laughs extra-hard 41. "Moby-Dick" antihero 42. Peg in a golf bag 43. Great delight 44. Toy that rides the wind 45. Don't spoil it! (Last 4 letters + ...) 47. Having drunk enough (... first 2 letters) 50. Drug cop 52. ___ after another 53. From California to New York, say 57. Horn in a rack 62. Squad with a spiel (Last 5 letters + ...) 64. Slowly undermine (... first 2 letters) 65. Now, in Spanish 66. Name hidden in "A Star Is Born" 67. What Type 2 hair has 68. Sophia Wilson's American soccer grp. 69. Rx item 70. Exhausted

1. Building's accessibility feature 2. Lake that sounds like 16-Across 3. Shed some skin 4. Big Apple? 5. 1980 Olivia Newton-John movie 6. Write 7. Surface ___ 8. Osaka of tennis 9. "Don't be scared!" 10. Smoothly, musically 11. Tehran's country 12. Unit at a pub 13. Get-together, for short 19. Rigatoni and rotini 21. One-up 24. Big old fusses 26. Too much speed 27. Totally unfamiliar 28. "Duly ___" 29. "Oh, wow!" 30. Under, poetically 32. Very well pitched 33. Beyond annoyed 34. Receded 37. Pinkberry dessert, for short 40. Little kid 41. Letters before an alias 43. Chews on 46. Summer worker, perhaps 48. What makes you you 49. Gets more of a magazine 51. Irish coffee addition 53. Jacob's twin 54. Massage parlor sounds 55. Word before "down" or "dance" 56. Be bold 58. Snare, or a music genre 59. Zero, in tennis 60. Biblical paradise 61. Chillax 63. Not so hot, in slang