Universal - Dec 13 2009

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Clues Answers
" ... with reason ___ guide" ASOUR
"Apple cider" gal IDA
"Before anything else ..." FIRST
"Berry" lead-in CRAN
"Cannery Row" character DORA
"Employees ___" (store sign) ONLY
"Live and Let ___" DIE
"Oh my goodness!" EGADS
"P" on fraternity row RHO
"There's a spy in our ___!" MIDST
"___ sparingly" USE
A Knight on TV TED
Absorbed-dose units RADS
Actress Spelling TORI
African serpent ASP
Against the law ILLEGAL
Apply acid artistically ETCH
Bake eggs SHIRR
Banister post NEWEL
Bay city of Florida TAMPA
Be less than truthful LIE
Best and brightest ELITE
Bonny gal LASS
Burned maliciously TORCHED
Celeste of stage and screen HOLM
Circle parts SECTORS
Copy cats? MEW
Deep passion ARDOR
Dr. Seuss' "If __ the Circus" IRAN
Dutch master Jan STEEN
Evade ELUDE
Evening-gown fabric LAME
Exasperate IRK
Fit to eat, to Muslims HALAL
Force unit DYNE
Gershon of "Showgirls" GINA
Great dogs? DANES
Gulf war ally OMAN
Clues Answers
Hapless sort SADSACK
Head for Vegas? LAS
Hit below the belt, in a way KNEED
Hoist more than a few TOPE
Keyboard correspondence EMAIL
Least forward SHIEST
Léotard and Silhouette, e.g. EPONYMS
Like a haunted house EERIE
Like old mud on one's shoes CAKED
Many a "Twilight Zone" episode SPINETINGLER
Mark Twain, for Samuel Clemens PENNAME
Midday NOON
Mortise fitter TENON
New York city UTICA
Not an orig. DUP
One with a superiority complex SNOB
Puts up, as a painting HANGS
Ready to drop BONETIRED
Rolodex abbr. TEL
Romantic recitation POEM
Self-help program level STEP
Served flawlessly ACED
Spanish wine SHERRY
Thicket of trees COPSE
Tough to get through to DENSE
TV actor's honor EMMY
Tweaked FINETUNED
Use it to stand tall STILT
Uses one's claws on TEARSAT
Versed literature POESY
Voice mail game TELEPHONETAG
Walk through melting snow SLOSH
Withdraw from a federation SECEDE
Word yelled on the stock market floor SELL
Work on copy EDIT
Wyoming neighbor IDAHO
Year's worth of games SEASON
Zenith's opposite NADIR