Universal - Sep 22 2012

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Clues Answers
"A ___ the Races" DAYAT
"Aida" composer VERDI
"Little Caesar" role RICO
"___ No. 1!" WERE
Actress Longoria EVA
African antelope with twisted horns ELAND
Bad sound at a talent show GONG
Baylor of basketball fame ELGIN
Blender setting PUREE
Blue Jays, Orioles or Ravens TEAM
Brooklyn's ___ Institute PRATT
Came down, as on a perch ALIT
City known for rubber products AKRON
Clairvoyant's card deck TAROT
Colorful quartz in many marbles AGATE
Come closer to NEAR
Correspondence sans stamp, say EMAIL
Crawling colonists ANTS
Cry from the pews AMEN
Cutting-___ (like the latest technology) EDGE
Emerald Isle folk IRISH
Eve's first home EDEN
Fencer's weapon EPEE
Fifth of the seven canonical hours NONES
First first name on the moon NEIL
Food bank containers CANS
Hercules types HEMEN
Hockey's Phil ESPOSITO
In the center of AMID
It's a cinch in Japan OBI
Itsy-bitsy bit IOTA
Joyous celebration GALA
Jumbo LARGE
Lady's man EARL
Lake Titicaca is partly in it PERU
Last six lines of a sonnet SESTET
Like a cool cat of the '40s HEP
Like windows PANED
Llamas' locale ANDES
Clues Answers
Low, heavy cart DRAY
Martini preference DRY
Mr. X, for one ANONYM
Nessie's home, e.g LOCH
Notions cases ETUIS
Off yonder AFAR
Once surnamed NEE
Part of the back 40 ACRE
Peculiar state ODDNESS
Perceive by touch FEEL
Peruse READ
Pet pests LICE
Purring, as an engine RUNNINGSMOOTHLY
Put at risk IMPERIL
Put in high spirits ELATE
Put to zero RESET
Putting the past behind MARCHINGFORWARD
Recess at St. Peter's APSE
Rushmore carving, familiarly ABE
Said "no contest," e.g PLED
Scot's tongue ERSE
Shoemaker's hole punch AWL
Sinuous shocker EEL
Skip over ELIDE
Slick material? OIL
Squirrel's nest DREY
Started a paragraph, perhaps INDENTED
Sue Grafton's "___ For Lawless" LIS
Surf sound ROAR
Swelling reducer ICE
Troops' campsite ETAPE
Turf defenders GANG
Two-dimensional calculation AREA
UAE ruler EMIR
Waiting to be poured ONTAP
Watch the kids SIT
What nearby stores may be "within" WALKINGDISTANCE
Winchester weapon RIFLE
Witnessed SEEN