Universal - Apr 4 2015

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Clues Answers
"Case dismissed" punctuation mark GAVEL
"Drinks ___ the house!" AREON
"Shame on you!" sound TSK
"The final frontier" SPACE
"This foolishness must ___ once!" ENDAT
"Z" preceder? ATO
'80s prime-time alien ALF
459, in old Rome CDLIX
9-5, typically OFFICEHOURS
Abalone product NACRE
Affected dandy FOP
And others, for short ETAL
Animation legend Tex AVERY
Ashes receptacle URN
Assigned work to TASKED
Best man, often TOASTER
Birds that sound deserving ERNS
Blood system, for short ABO
Carpenter's tool ROUTER
Cloak-and-dagger org CIA
Corkwood BALSA
Covers up ENROBES
Crete's sea AEGEAN
Cries of triumph HAHS
Decorative jugs EWERS
Diamond size measure CARAT
Dusk, poetically EVENTIDE
Emerald Isle EIRE
Enjoy a sabbatical TAKETIMEOFF
Exxon competitor CITGO
Eye-opening problem? STYE
Fleeting obsession FAD
Former Chinese chairman MAO
French clergyman ABBE
Further shorten, as a piece of wood RESAW
Gangster's pistol GAT
Hindu gentleman (Var.) BABOO
Homophone of 16-Across EARN
Indentations, as in chins CLEFTS
Clues Answers
Infomercials, e.g ADS
Keebler baker, in ads ELF
Less wet DRIER
Let out some air EXHALE
Little cupid AMORETTO
Made a basket SCORED
Make malicious remarks SNIPE
Make reparations ATONE
Not reported, as income OFFTHEBOOKS
Occasion for a spirited conversation? SEANCE
One way to go to a party STAG
Opponent FOE
Personalize, in a way ENGRAVE
Picnic take-alongs COOLERS
Pigeon's sound COO
Potted plant's place LEDGE
Prefix with "linear" that means "straight" RECTI
Relative of 20-Across TERN
S&L holdings ACCTS
Seafood entree SOLE
Sheik's bevy HAREM
Shove up from below BOOST
Some cross rds STS
Some email attachments PDFS
Some yeanlings LAMBS
Southwestern butte MESA
Stiff hairs or bristles SETAE
Surrender FORFEIT
Taking a vacation day OFF
Telephone button STAR
The "so few" Churchill referred to RAF
Tom-tom neighbor SNARE
Uses Sotheby's AUCTIONSOFF
Vein contents ORE
Whence to admire? AFAR
Wickerwork twigs OSIERS
Winter mo FEB
Work bit ERG
___-Wan Kenobi OBI