Universal - Apr 5 2009

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Clues Answers
''Child's play!'' ASNAP
''Otello'' baritone IAGO
''Quiet!'' locale SET
''Ragged Dick'' writer Horatio ALGER
''Smart'' guy ALEC
''Specifically ...'' TOWIT
''The Naked Maja'' painter GOYA
''The way things stand ...'' ASITIS
''You never had ___ good!'' ITSO
''Yum!'' TASTY
24-Down's superior LIEUT
90 degrees from norte ESTE
A/C measurement BTU
Alphabet trio CDE
Animated family name SIMPSON
Ball of thread CLEW
Big Bertha's birthplace ESSEN
Blanched WAN
Calendar abbr. TUE
Canister JAR
Capital on the Aare (Var.) BERNE
Carrie in space LEIA
Colo. clock setting MST
Contented tabby sound PURR
Cool HIP
Cries of disgust EWS
Diacritical mark TILDE
Disheveled coif MOP
Do damage to MAR
Door frame upright JAMB
Drupe STONEFRUIT
Equal PEER
Fleming and Holm IANS
Flip response? TAILS
General or major RANK
Grads ALUMS
Grub or chigger, e.g. LARVA
Hardware item TNUT
He's a real doll KEN
Clues Answers
Head honcho TOPBANANA
Inexperienced GREEN
Involving the ear OTIC
Kind of comedy SLAPSTICK
Like a fresh brownie MOIST
Like salt in water SOLUBLE
Little piggy's place TOOTSY
Lose pep TIRE
National Spelling Bee sponsor SCRIPPS
One-named folk singer ODETTA
Persian Gulf person KUWAITI
Pneumatic tool AIRHAMMER
Restaurant offering BREADSTICK
Ring thing GEMSTONE
Seagoing mil. training group NROTC
Sensitive subject, to some AGE
Series opener? WORLD
Shade in ''America the Beautiful'' AMBER
Sing like the birds TRILL
Skin softener LOTION
Some noncoms, briefly SSGTS
Sometimes they're grasped at STRAWS
Sorenstam of golf ANNIKA
Stall STONEWALL
Starter's need GUN
Stomach muscles, briefly ABS
Subtle alert PSST
Synthetic fabric ARNEL
Threw a big party for FETED
Tie holder STICKPIN
Tiebreaking periods, briefly OTS
Times to revel, maybe EVES
Try to get some answers ASK
Veronica's friend BETTY
Word made out of vitamins ACE
Yale School of Mgmt. degrees MBAS
Youngest NHL Hall of Fame inductee ORR
___ time flat INNO
___ vera ALOE