Universal - Dec 31 2012

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Clues Answers
"Before" to poets of old ERE
"Ninotchka" name GRETA
"Sesame Street" curmudgeon OSCAR
'60s veep Humphrey HUBERT
Animal traps SNARES
Attendance fig., often EST
Baby newts EFTS
Ballyhooed HYPED
Big name in flatware ONEIDA
Bread grain WHEAT
Burlap bags SACKS
Campaign for office RUN
Carve on crystal ETCH
Central church area NAVE
Certain parents MAS
Certain woodwinds OBOES
Clark or Rogers ROY
Climber's handhold CRAG
Compete hand-to-hand GRAPPLE
Condos, e.g UNITS
Corn amount EAR
Danica Patrick, for one RACER
Defibrillator user's cry CLEAR
Eyelid swellings STYES
Footnote abbr IBID
Got bigger GREW
Habitual practice CUSTOM
Hanker after WANT
Hiker's sock-clinger BUR
Historic introduction? PRE
Hopelessness DESPAIR
Horizontal beams CROSSPIECES
How deadpan humor is delivered DRILY
Inexpensive swing, perhaps TIRE
It makes a drink clink ICE
Jaywalker's nemesis CAR
Massage a manuscript EDIT
Mattress problem SAG
More than hard-of-hearing STONEDEAF
Clues Answers
Mystery-solution reactions AHS
Native-born Israeli SABRA
Night before a big game EVE
Not even on cloud one SAD
Nymph of Greek myth OREAD
One job for a stylist TINTING
Opposite of WSW ENE
Part of a geisha's garb OBI
PC perch, perhaps LAP
Persian Gulf sheikdom BAHRAIN
Persistent personal quirk TIC
Place of pilgrimage MECCA
Plaything with a fulcrum SEESAW
Poetic lines of homage ODE
Postgrad deg MBA
Pulp fiction gumshoe TEC
Rage relative IRE
Ready to skinny-dip NUDE
Really attractive EYECATCHING
Royal pains PESTS
Santa in California? CLARA
Seagoing birds ERNS
Separate from society SEGREGATE
Sergeant, for one ARMYOFFICER
Small natural hill KNOLL
Some flooring CARPETTILES
South American empire of yore INCA
Tales of heroism SAGAS
Test that's all talk ORAL
They catch robbers COPS
Took a gun out of its holster DREW
Top-notch, slangily PRIMO
Tough question POSER
Twain adventurer SAWYER
Word with "patrol" or "leave" SHORE
Words with a ring to them? IDO
Writer Bradbury RAY
Yuletide strains NOELS
Zealand resident DANE