Universal - Feb 14 2024

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Clues Answers
"As I demonstrated" LIKESO
"Be right there!" ONESEC
"Don't overextend yourself at first" STARTSMALL
"Ish" ORSO
"Molto ___" ("Very good," in Italian) BENE
"No ___ about it!" BUTS
"Now," to a nurse STAT
"Same here" IDOTOO
"Survivor" item bestowing immunity IDOL
"___ be my pleasure" ITD
Abandon a situation, informally BAIL
Actress Thurman UMA
Beginning ONSET
Best Picture winner set in Iran ARGO
Chicken ___ king ALA
Common conjunction AND
Courts WOOS
D.C. dealmaker POL
Defendant's statement PLEA
Dessert named after a German region (... letters 1, 3, 5 and 9) BLACKFORESTCAKE
Diva's solo ARIA
Do as you're told OBEY
Drained of color ASHY
Drink served with sushi SAKE
Drive a getaway car, say ABET
Edmonton NHL player OILER
Examples of top-notch service? ACES
Fifth Avenue retailer SAKS
Former jrs SRS
Fuming IRATE
Garden pond fish KOI
Grammy-winning Beck album whose title anagrams to "a yodel" ODELAY
Greek love god EROS
Has debts OWES
Ice balls, essentially HAIL
Inventor Tesla NIKOLA
Like some embraces PASSIONATE
Little garden pest APHID
Clues Answers
Match, as data SYNC
Meryl Streep's Ivy League alma mater YALE
Mollusk popular in New England (... letters 1, 4, 7, 12 and 13) SOFTSHELLCLAM
Next in line, legally HEIR
One who gets schooled? PUPIL
One who has your back ALLY
One with a reddish beard, perhaps STRAWBERRYBLOND
Palindromic body part EYE
Papeete's South Pacific island TAHITI
Pasta sauce brand RAGU
Peppery beef entree (In this answer, note letters 1, 3, 4 and 12) STEAKAUPOIVRE
Pet food in pellets KIBBLE
Piece of concert merch TEE
Places to hear 14-Across, for short ERS
Pollen pouch SAC
Prepare for publication EDIT
Pull into, as a gas station STOPAT
Sega hedgehog SONIC
Serb, for one SLAV
Shade-loving plant FERN
Site for crafty people ETSY
Skin lotion brand KERI
Smartphones, laptops, etc TECH
Snuggle up NESTLE
Stay home for dinner EATIN
Still competing INIT
Stories TALES
Surname of "Mama" Cass ELLIOT
Takes advantage of USES
Topples (over) KEELS
Unlikely to wave hello ALOOF
Upper house? ATTIC
Vision correction surgery LASIK
Wee TINY
Whole bunch SLEW
Wood-turning tool LATHE
Yemeni's neighbor OMANI
___-cone SNO