Universal - Aug 12 2016

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Clues Answers
"As ___" (letter closing) EVER
"Sure thing, skipper!" AYE
"West Side Story" girl ANITA
"What was ___ think?" ITO
"Yo mama" jokes, essentially INSULTS
"___ porridge hot ..." PEASE
A country's output, for short GNP
Abdominal protrusion HERNIA
Ancient calculators ABACI
Arcade attractions GAMES
Arizona flat tops MESAS
Art-studio stands EASELS
Attack, to a dog SIC
Author WRITER
Baby that barks PUP
Baylor of basketball fame ELGIN
Be in contradiction with BELIE
Begot SIRED
Black tea from India ASSAM
Bring on, as labor INDUCE
Bring under control SUBDUE
Built to take it HARDY
Burdens for Grand Canyon mules PACKSADDLES
Catcher in the Rhine? SEINE
Check casher PAYEE
Creepy and supernatural EERIE
Decay ROT
Disheartens SADDENS
Dismal, to a bard DREAR
English 101 verb ARE
Extend farther down DEEPEN
Faux ___ (public misstep) PAS
French school ECOLE
Holder of baby's milk BOTTLE
Ice cream serving SCOOP
Impede the progress of DETER
Indy 500 leaders PACESETTERS
Clues Answers
It's undone for change? PURSESTRING
Japanese rice wines SAKIS
Keanu in "The Matrix" NEO
Legendary actress Holm CELESTE
Like a dunce cap CONIC
Line made with a compass ARC
Looped cross ANKH
Lots of land ACRES
Make less intense BATE
Man on a "hog" BIKER
Man-made fiber RAYON
Meeting with a medium SEANCE
More creative, perhaps ARTIER
Natural, hairwise UNDYED
Newton of science ISAAC
Old electronics company RCA
Outmoded women's garment CORSET
Over, as a meal EATEN
Part of SUV, briefly UTE
Place of pilgrimage, for some MECCA
Prepared tea, in a way STEEPED
Professional butler, for one PAIDSERVANT
Pumps full of bubbles AERATES
Santa ___, Calif ANA
Sea-girt land ISLE
Shutout score, in soccer NIL
Sleet-covered ICY
Spigot TAP
Swap TRADE
Tarot reader, supposedly SEER
They might be liberal ARTS
Time to rise, for some SUNUP
Trees with quaking leaves ASPENS
True nature ESSENCE
Unstressed vowel sounds SCHWAS
Whole, as a film UNCUT
Zigzag braid on clothing (Var.) RICRAC