Universal - Dec 18 2008

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Clues Answers
''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' quartet EMS
''Hold on a ___!'' SEC
''Majeste'' lead-in LESE
''What ___ could go wrong?'' ELSE
1989 film ''Milo & ___'' OTIS
23rd letter of the Greek alphabet PSI
90 degrees from fore-and-aft ABEAM
A little hoarse RASPY
Abates EBBS
Ablutionary vessel EWER
Adjective for Death Valley ARID
Aftermath WAKE
Aircraft shed HANGAR
Allegro ___ (music direction) ASSAI
Apt rhyme for ''deplore'' ABHOR
Arguments ROWS
Art colony near Santa Fe TAOS
Backpack toters HIKERS
Balkan Peninsula capital SOFIA
Be a water witch DOWSE
Be totally honest TELLITLIKEITIS
Become friendlier THAW
Become less intense ABATE
Big diamond ACE
Bishop's topper MITER
Boat maneuverer OAR
Cafe locales, often SIDEWALKS
Came around after a knockout AWOKE
Clinch, as a job LAND
Curator's acquisition RELIC
Daggers, in printing OBELI
Declare as true AVER
Director's prerogative RETAKE
Dojo activity KARATE
Elongated pastry ECLAIR
Eye-opening problem? STYE
Fill-in employee TEMP
Find loathsome HATE
Clues Answers
First-generation Japanese-American NISEI
Fish tank problem ALGAE
Five cents a minute, e.g. RATE
Fluid rock LAVA
Geometric solids TORI
Get a load of ESPY
If-___ (computer routines) THENS
Impressed expressions OOHS
Indistinguishable IDENTICAL
Islamic decrees FATWAS
It rolls on the fairway CART
Item often kept on hand? MITT
Joyce's motherland ERIN
Libation station potation BEER
Limit-pushing tykes IMPS
Magical wish granter GENIE
Many-stringed Japanese instruments KOTOS
Master Simpson BART
Moralistic tale FABLE
Mumbai wear SARI
Nutrient in spinach IRON
One who works to gain pounds? BRIT
Perturbs IRKS
Playing marble with bands AGATE
Plug component PRONG
Read between the lines INFER
Reggae pioneer Peter TOSH
Russian river VOLGA
Say something nice UTTERAKINDWORD
Seesaw-sitter of rhyme ESAU
She had a ''Tootsie'' role TERI
Something that's spun TALE
Ten-to-one, e.g. RATIO
They're never really civil WARS
Transparent, as stockings SHEER
Wino ALKY
Yak, yak, yak TALKONESHEADOFF
___ in victory VAS