Universal - Dec 31 2020

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Clues Answers
"J'accuse...!" writer Zola EMILE
"Your highness" SIRE
20 dispenser ATM
Admit to knowing LETON
Arctic or snowshoe animal HARE
Beginnings of ideas GERMS
Big name in Italian fashion ARMANI
Brouhaha ADO
California/Nevada resort area, informally TAHOE
Catalog insert ORDERFORM
Certain unpopular collector TAXMAN
City in northwestern Pennsylvania ERIE
Civil rights activist Ruby DEE
Combined, as funds POOLED
Common drying agent in packaging (see letters 6 to 8 in this answer) SILICAGEL
Cowardly CRAVEN
December 31, briefly NYE
Dined ATE
Drive very fast RACE
Eavesdropping org NSA
End of an ultimatum ELSE
Eve, for Cain and Abel MOM
Fellow associate COMRADE
Fiona in "Shrek," for one OGRESS
Fly a plane AVIATE
Gave the once-over EYED
Get ready to eat a kid's meal? TEETHE
Highest point value for a Scrabble tile TEN
Jones or James of jazz ETTA
Karaoke need, informally MIKE
Kick out of school EXPEL
Kimono sash OBI
Less constrained FREER
Like owls' feet TALONED
Maximally unpleasant situation THEPITS
Medication-approving org FDA
Millenniums, for instance ... or a hint to the hidden words in 17-, 31- and 44-Across TIMESPANS
More cunning SLIER
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More tightly packed DENSER
NASCAR legend Yarborough CALE
One who is done for GONER
Placed on a pedestal ADORED
Playground game with a lot of running TAG
Really messy room STY
Realtor's bare-bones offering LOT
Rings out PEALS
Romulus or Remus TWIN
Saudi Arabia neighbor OMAN
Says with conviction AVERS
Senator Feinstein DIANNE
Sign of summer? LEO
Smell of holiday cookies, for instance AROMA
Snakes by the Nile ASPS
Sounded shocked GASPED
Split in two BISECT
Spring training time PRESEASON
Stir in ADD
That sow HER
Toronto is on its shore (4 to 6) LAKEONTARIO
Tubular pasta PENNE
Turkic people (STRATA anagram) TATARS
Ukrainian port ODESSA
Unduly TOO
University where the Clintons met YALE
Usually broad road: Abbr AVE
Vendor SELLER
Waste little by little (6 to 8) FRITTERAWAY
Water balloon sound SPLAT
Wear down ERODE
Went wild RANRIOT
What a go-getter is often full of ENERGY
What old mattresses do SAG
Win-win NOLOSE
Word within "Miami-Dade" AMID
Yankee's Baltimore rival ORIOLE
___ moment AHA