Universal - Aug 17 2012

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Clues Answers
"Age before ___" BEAUTY
"Green Gables" girl ANNE
"Pandora's Box" surrealist Magritte RENE
1982 title role for Meryl Streep SOPHIE
1998 skating champ Lipinski TARA
About 70 percent of Earth's surface OCEAN
Almost forever EONS
Almost round OVAL
Ambassador automaker NASH
American of Japanese birth ISSEI
Angelic feature HALO
Aquarium reptile TURTLE
Attachment to "Christ"? MAS
Aye's opposite, in Aberdeen NAE
Baby birds? STORKS
Better ___ nothing THAN
Biblical trio MAGI
Big name in garden care ORTHO
Blood supplies SERA
Boiled gently SIMMERED
Bowed, to a violist ARCO
Bunk bed COT
Casualty of casual Friday NECKTIE
Chess win MATE
Communist leader of old LENIN
Completely inoperative KAPUT
Conductor's wand BATON
Coupled, as oxen YOKED
Cries uncontrollably SOBS
Dash hundredths METERS
Dog-biscuit shape BONE
Duchess of ___ (Goya model) ALBA
Election problem MISCOUNT
Fancy patterned fabric DAMASK
Fertile desert spot OASIS
Fey of "30 Rock" TINA
First-aid box KIT
Gearshift selection LOW
Glum DOUR
Clues Answers
Grand Canyon viewing area RIM
Hearty dinner STEW
Honey of a beverage? MEAD
It might be preapproved LOAN
Kind of shaft or wheel CAM
Like one ready for bed TIRED
Moon personification LUNA
Oft-scraped joint KNEE
Pass (a law) ENACT
Pie man? ESKIMO
Piece of a blue chip? SHARE
Polynesian figurines TIKIS
Pool sticks CUES
Popular party spot SNACKTABLE
Prefix with "father" or "son" STEP
Print from a carved block WOODCUT
Ready for publication EDIT
Rush-order shorthand ASAP
Saree wearer RANEE
Semicircular area in a church APSE
Shut-eye SLEEP
Sir's counterpart MADAM
Snobbish one SNOOT
Solver's quest ANSWER
Some karate experts BLACKBELTS
Some police operations CRACKDOWNS
Squander resources WASTE
State positively AVER
Stoolie RAT
Stretch out on the couch LOLL
Tankard filler ALE
The javelin throw, for one TRACKEVENT
The ones close by THESE
Toy building-block brand LEGO
Trouble's partner TOIL
Variety show sketch SKIT
With money to burn RICH
___ the Terrible IVAN
___-tac-toe TIC