Universal - Feb 12 2023

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Clues Answers
"However," to a texter OTOH
"What's up with ___?" THAT
*Cassette player inserts AUDIOTAPES
*Frat blowouts KEGPARTIES
*Native environment HABITAT
*Winter windshield clearers ICESCRAPERS
2014 epic featuring an ark NOAH
Additive sold at NAPA STP
Admiral's charge FLEET
Apt candy for Valentine's Day KISS
Archie, perennially TEEN
Artsy New Mexico town TAOS
Be optimistic HOPE
Be pertinent to BEARON
Big blowout BASH
Birthstone for most Libras OPAL
Bootlickers YESMEN
Brewpub beverages ALES
Chamber group woodwind OBOE
Chip away at ERODE
Col. Sanders' chain KFC
Collapsible shelter TENT
Cookie since 1912 OREO
Creme de cassis cocktail KIR
Dallas Cowboys emblem STAR
Daytona 500, e.g RACE
Decoration on a dining table, and what's in the exact middle of each starred clue's answer? CENTERPIECE
Distress signal SOS
Dutch Caribbean island ARUBA
Early Peruvian INCA
Elizabeth of cosmetics ARDEN
Frisked, with "down" PATTED
Future throne occupant HEIR
Generally lint-free navels OUTIES
Gives off EMITS
Hangs on to KEEPS
Hendrix's rock genre ACID
Horizontal line on a graph XAXIS
Hotel room roll-ins COTS
Immortal Yankee Babe RUTH
Clues Answers
Impresses greatly AWES
Interfere with DISTURB
Item on a saucer, perhaps TEACUP
Key near F1 ESC
Land measure ACRE
Mandel of "Deal or No Deal" HOWIE
More out of practice RUSTIER
Muss, as one's hair TOUSLE
Nearby CLOSE
Nebraska city on the Missouri River OMAHA
Newton or watt UNIT
NYSE launch IPO
One bringing home the bacon EARNER
Open, as a toothpaste tube UNCAP
Org chart level TIER
Pantry pests ANTS
Picnicker's dreaded weather RAIN
Prefix meaning "Earth" GEO
Prefix with "potent" OMNI
Pull a scam on, slangily HOSE
Punch holes in, as a lawn AERATE
Puts on Twitter, say POSTS
Regions AREAS
Response to "Are not!" AMTOO
Right-angle bend ELL
Seckel and Anjou PEARS
Sign above a door EXIT
Smartphone forerunner, in brief PDA
Steel plow pioneer DEERE
Strange-sounding lake ERIE
Stubbed extremity TOE
Suffix with "ethyl" ENE
Take the advice of HEED
Teamed beasts OXEN
Ten Commandments verb SHALT
Therapist's comment ISEE
TV's Science Kid SID
Visibly nervous SHAKY
Wears a long face MOPES
What a diva sings ARIA