Universal - May 17 2009

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Clues Answers
''A Shropshire ___'' LAD
''Didn't you get the ___?'' MEMO
''En garde'' weapon EPEE
''Evil'' Bush grouping AXIS
''Forty whacks'' weapon AXE
''Purple ___'' (Hendrix song) HAZE
''The Addams Family'' member ITT
A lot of assassins? ESSES
Act incensed FUME
Act like slime OOZE
Address for a ship SHE
Air, as one's opinion VOICE
Airline ticket word, sometimes VIA
Algeria abutter MALI
Almost ready for the tooth fairy LOOSE
Alpine pond TARN
An actor may trip over one LINE
Aquarium fish SWORDTAIL
Assists in a birth MIDWIFES
Backsplash pieces TILES
Bailiwicks, slangily TURFS
Bandy SWAP
Between gigs IDLE
Big name on Fifth Avenue SAKS
Big word in advertising FREE
Breakfast choices BRANS
Broadcasting unit? AIRWAVE
Brown buildings DORMS
Catches sight of SEES
Certainly not disguised OVERT
Chapter's partner VERSE
Christmas trees, frequently FIRS
Circus barker? SEALION
Completely untrue BASELESS
Digs for a mummy? TOMB
Directional sign EXIT
Dodge EVADE
Does a fancy dive JACKKNIFES
Clues Answers
Doubled, a Washington city WALLA
Element of change COIN
Emollient ingredient ALOE
Entryway upright DOORJAMB
Euripedes drama MEDEA
European mountain ranges ALPS
Eyeball layer UVEA
Flaming AFIRE
Focuses (on) FIXATES
Gael's language ERSE
Get every benefit from MILK
Gum flavor SPEARMINT
Help around the house? MAID
Hipsters' homes PADS
It's close but gets no cigar NEARMISS
It's treated in a plant SEWAGE
Justification CAUSE
Like last year's fashions PASSE
Lob shot's trajectory ARC
Love like crazy ADORE
Merlots and cabernets REDS
Minimally make (with ''out'') EKE
Non-staff writer, e.g. FREELANCER
One left out of a stag party? DOE
One of the Coppolas SOFIA
One on the Mohs scale TALC
Opposite of contrasts LIKENS
Purim month ADAR
Racecar sound ROAR
Reese's role in ''Legally Blonde'' ELLE
Rogers' partner EVANS
She found success with Caesar COCA
Soap Box Derby city AKRON
Superior, for one LAKE
Town in Georgia or France MACON
WWII detention sites STALAGS
___ mode (topped with ice cream) ALA
___ one's ways (stubborn) SETIN