Universal - Dec 2 2021

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Clues Answers
"Just play along" HUMORME
"No clue" IMATALOSS
"Siddhartha" author Hermann HESSE
(Check this out!) PSST
*All the other people EVERYONEELSE
*Like community government (Hint: Note the letters that bookend both words of each starred clue's answer ... and what these letters collectively spell) LOCALLEVEL
*Receipts SALESSLIPS
*Spurring into action GETTINGGOING
5 p.m., say, for a workday END
A whole bunch of MANY
AARP members: Abbr SRS
Absorbs, with "up" SOPS
Adjective for a shoppe OLDE
After expenses NET
All fired up AVID
All tied up EVEN
Analyze syntactically PARSE
Answered REPLIED
Baby beagles PUPS
Ballet bend PLIE
Baseball legend Musial STAN
Big name in chips LAYS
Blond shade ASH
Box office bomb FLOP
Broke bread ATE
Cable network with a patriotic name USA
Call to a mate AHOY
Captain's journal LOG
Charged particles IONS
Chimney channel FLUE
Clutter MESS
Coffee maker sound DRIP
Cover story? ALIBI
Craving that needs quenching THIRST
Crew member's implement OAR
Curved path ARC
Diamond Head's locale OAHU
Emailed a dupe to CCED
Embrace HUG
Clues Answers
Fills to excess SATES
Flushed RED
Frosts, as a cake ICES
Game on horseback POLO
Ignore the alarm clock SLEEPIN
Internet connection initials DSL
Judges' attire ROBES
Late general Powell COLIN
Less ruddy PALER
Let up ABATE
Modernize UPDATE
Moody music genre EMO
Most eco-friendly dryer? SUN
Motor oil brand STP
Narrow street LANE
Norse god associated with lightning THOR
Officials at Phillies games, briefly UMPS
One who values actions over words? MIME
Opposite of baja ALTA
Pace faster than a canter GALLOP
Penny, perhaps, in poker ANTE
Ponder (over) MUSE
Provide for free COMP
Rendition VERSION
Serious sermon subject MORTALSIN
Situated over ABOVE
Smart CLEVER
Smell from a trash bag ODOR
Sped RACED
Steeple's tip SPIRE
Takes legal action SUES
Terrific SUPER
They may be marching ORDERS
Thing in an incubator EGG
Uplifting poems ODES
Watched warily EYED
What a filling fills CAVITY
What jowls do SAG
Word hidden in "three letters" EEL