Universal - Dec 13 2015

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Clues Answers
"Be ___!" ("Help me out, friend") APAL
"Born Free" lioness ELSA
"Famous" cookie maker AMOS
"Sic 'em, Spot!" ATTACK
Acquire GET
Advanced college deg PHD
Aquatic resorts SPAS
Automaton of Jewish legend GOLEM
Basketball Hall of Famer Archibald NATE
Birds as tall as people EMUS
Brouhaha ADO
Common college degrees, briefly BAS
Dependable TRUSTY
Dickens character Heep URIAH
Distinctive atmosphere about someone AURA
Does a nightly ritual, for some PRAYS
Dream-time acronym REM
Dry to the bone SERE
Ducks and dodges EVADES
Eagerly seize an opportunity JUMPATTHECHANCE
Earthenware stew pots OLLAS
Edible root of taro plants EDDO
Europe's ___ Peninsula BALKAN
Express aloud SPEAK
First half of the alphabet? ATOM
Fly or mosquito, e.g INSECT
For an interim PROTEM
Former ruler of Iran SHAH
From the beginning AFRESH
Geiger of radiation detection HANS
Halloween choice TREAT
Has trouble with S's LISPS
Highlands family CLAN
Horseshoe site HOOF
In the back of the boat ASTERN
Irksome swarm GNATS
It may follow a million AIRE
It's known by its fruit TREE
Item in black ASSET
Clues Answers
Just love to pieces ADORE
Knit goods problem SNAG
Largest U.S. union NEA
Like some banking ONLINE
Move like a hummingbird FLIT
Obsolete "for fear that" LEST
Officers in blue COPS
One and the other BOTH
One mother MOMMA
One running casually LOPER
Organize anew REVAMP
Part of a swap? TAT
Place for a boutonniere LAPEL
Playing hooky SKIPPINGCLASSES
Premature, as a decision HASTY
Prominent rock on a hill TOR
Put in the fridge COOLED
Quite familiar with USEDTO
Rani's spouse RAJA
Russian legislative assembly DUMA
Santa ___, Calif ROSA
Short distance HOPSKIPANDAJUMP
Springfield, for one RIFLE
Start of several California city names SAN
Strong rope fiber SISAL
Teen spots? ACNE
Thai money BAHTS
The main course? MAJOR
They were bound to the land HELOTS
Three times, in Rx lingo TER
Tosses from office OUSTS
TV award EMMY
Two mothers MOMS
Types ILKS
Use one's peepers SEE
Weather map notations HIGHS
With the bow, musically ARCO
___ de corps (morale) ESPRIT
___-friendly (simple to operate) USER