Universal - Jan 1 2017

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"Joie de vivre" ELAN
"Mater" lead-in ALMA
Abilities SKILLS
As good a time as any, if tipsy? SOMEWINEMORNING
Baby's time-out NAP
Baseball infield covers TARPS
Before, in poetry of old ERE
Big goof OAF
Big-time public speaker ORATOR
Birdlike AVIAN
Boots out of office OUSTS
Brief time spans, briefly SECS
Bullish times UPS
Burg relative TOWN
Decidedly wicked EVIL
Designer Anne KLEIN
Didn't play an instrument? SANG
Domestic beer? HOMEBREW
End, in Cannes FINIS
Entree feature, often MEAT
Ermine in its brown summer coat STOAT
Eve's grandson who lived 905 years ENOS
Family origins ROOTS
Faux butter OLEO
Feature of a putting green HOLE
Feeling blue SAD
Formally hand over, as property CEDE
From square one ANEW
From the mouth ORAL
Get some shut-eye SLEEP
Gibson of Hollywood MEL
Handbag handles STRAPS
Homer's bartender MOE
Huge hunk of bacon SLAB
In a vertical direction, nautically APEAK
Inexperienced one NAIF
Inquisition victim HERETIC
It was terrific in the '90s RAD
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It's all uphill from here NADIR
Italian city where Columbus was born GENOA
Landlord, often OWNER
Large dark-red oval organs SPLEENS
Light, delicate and airy ETHEREAL
Like seven, but not eight ODD
Lost color FADED
Makers of big heads EGOS
Military scouting mission RECON
Mountain that Moses climbed SINAI
No matter what happens, to Porky Pig? COMERAINORSWINE
One who won't keep off the grass? STONER
Orange leftover RIND
Patriot Hale NATHAN
Preminger of movie fame OTTO
Pro ___ (in proportion) RATA
Really spooky EERIE
Road sign offering a caution YIELD
Savvy about ONTO
Scuttlebutt TALK
Send word NOTIFY
Ship of Columbus PINTA
Skip past OMIT
Slowly, in music scores LENTO
Smell that entices AROMA
Snacked ATE
Solo at the opera ARIA
Some turkey parts LEGS
Start a game of gin DEAL
State of the Corn Belt IOWA
Teapot tempests ADOS
Thompson of "Howards End" EMMA
What every good pilot must do LAND
What the football team drank at practice? WINEOFSCRIMMAGE
Withdraw from office DEMIT
Word of division INTO
Work hard TOIL
You might find the captain at it HELM