Here are the answers to Universal Crossword puzzles Wednesday September 23, 2020.

“I’m not kidding!” – TRUSTME
“Let’s fight!” – ITSON
“Snowy” waterbird – EGRET
“Your majesty” – SIRE
*Hospital wing for a plutocrat? – PRIVATEER
*Marketers’ word choice? – ADDICTION
*Message from a scammer? – CONNOTE
*Refuses to settle? – ISSUING
A diplomat may negotiate one’s release – HOSTAGE
A person’s – ONES
Aboriginal Bahamian people (hidden in “mountainous”) – TAINO
Actress Longoria – EVA
Amassed, as expenses – RANUP
Barriers to cooperation – EGOS
Basil sauce – PESTO
Becomes fit to eat – RIPENS
Bendable leg part – KNEE
Casual stride – LOPE
Center of rotation – AXIS
Certain 8-Down poem – ODE
Convent figure – NUN
Data upload letters – FTP
Divide into thirds – TRISECT
Do wonderfully – EXCEL
Does something with – USES
Emotional poetic genre – LYRIC
Ewe or ram, for a lamb – PARENT
Fuel additive brand – STP
Gets older – AGES
Give ideas to – INSPIRE
Golfer’s gouges – DIVOTS
Grains in most breads? – SALT
Gumbo thickener – OKRA
Hair condition that explains how the starred answers break up? – SPLITENDS
He loved Hero – LEANDER
Impatient cry on Christmas morning – OPENIT
Is inadequate – WONTDO
Large, fish-eating birds – OSPREYS
Largest country that’s fully in Europe – UKRAINE
Leave alone – LETBE
Leb. neighbor – ISR
Letter before upsilon – TAU
Like a wafer – THIN
Lorna ___ – DOONE
Marsh plants – REEDS
Martini & ___ – ROSSI
Neon and argon – GASES
Next year’s alumni, often – SENIORS
Nickname for Edward – NED
Nobel who established the Nobel Prize – ALFRED
Objective – GOAL
Objects in English class? – NOUNS
Optimistic – HOPEFUL
Organs with canals – EARS
Poem by David – PSALM
Prefix suggesting revival – NEO
Projecting insect part – ANTENNA
Quick to snap, say – EDGY
Reaches – GETSTO
Rescue – SAVE
Shakespeare’s “For shame!” – FIE
Simple dwellings – HUTS
States with confidence – AVERS
Strict grammarian – PURIST
Studio supporters? – EASELS
Styles with foam – MOUSSES
Tar Heels’ sch – UNC
Tempestuous – STORMY
Texter’s reaction to a joke – LOL
Theater class assignment? – ROLE
Tornado – TWISTER
Toy from China, briefly? – PEKE
Unadorned – PLAIN
Wiener schnitzel ingredient – VEAL
Women’s links org – LPGA
Xhosa and Zulu’s language group – BANTU