Universal - Dec 12 2014

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Clues Answers
"Beloved" novelist Morrison TONI
"Chasing Pavements" singer ADELE
"Citizen ___" (film) KANE
"Communist Manifesto" co-author Marx KARL
"Costa" or "Puerto" follower RICAN
"Days ___ Lives" OFOUR
"Don't expunge that!" STET
"Leave ___ Beaver" ITTO
"The Eagle has landed" recipient NASA
"With ___ ring ..." THIS
"___ all else fails ..." ORIF
67.5 degrees, direction-wise ENE
A wise beginning? OTHER
Airline-seat locale AISLE
And so forth (Abbr.) ETC
Apply crudely, as paint DAUB
Arabian bigwig EMIR
Arid SERE
Biker's path TRAIL
Brewed beverage TEA
Bridge-seat occupants EASTS
Campground abodes TENTS
Castle's watery defense MOAT
Cold War foe, briefly USSR
Common sight in Aspen SKIJACKET
Cook an egg, in a way FRY
Crook interested in rock collections? JEWELTHIEF
Cut into smaller pieces RESAW
Dawson or Deighton LEN
Definitely not good EVIL
Eagle of the coasts ERNE
Expert fighter pilot ACE
Felt sorry about RUED
Fingernail filer, among criminals SAFECRACKER
Fix, as a game's outcome RIG
Give off EMIT
Go for ___ (take a nice run) AJOG
Grand ___ (wine label word) CRU
Individualized atmosphere AURA
Clues Answers
Inventor Whitney ELI
Knee-to-ankle bone TIBIA
Large pitcher EWER
Las Vegas attraction STRIP
LeBron James' birthplace AKRONOHIO
Like a lemon TART
Like an infamous Dallas knoll GRASSY
Like some patches SEWNON
Like the game, to Sherlock Holmes AFOOT
Lively spirit ELAN
Meat cut LOIN
Open-eyed AWARE
Ornery mood SNIT
Partly open AJAR
Passover dinners SEDERS
Pine exudation RESIN
Platoon leaders (Abbr.) NCOS
Public scenes ADOS
Responds to stimuli REACTS
Road covering TAR
Salespeople, briefly REPS
Sea-girt land ISLE
Shouts YELLS
Show faith in (with "on") RELY
Socially smooth SUAVE
Some flock members EWES
Sounds of discovery AHAS
Spinal vertebrae SACRA
Stealthy stealer CATBURGLAR
Takes a stab at TRIES
Trompe l'___ (optical illusion) OEIL
Type of angle ACUTE
When to be saved from the theme entries? INTHENICKOFTIME
Wild West outlaw TRAINROBBER
Wine bottle feature CORK
Work on one's muscles TONE
Year before A.D. began ONEBC
Yield CEDE
___-the-mill RUNOF