Universal - Oct 31 2020

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Clues Answers
*Arizona and Nevada, compared to Louisiana and Florida? DRIERSTATES
*Cook who puts grains in the oven? RICEBAKER
*Monastic updo? (note how an "R" sound moves in each starred answer) FRIARPOUF
*Reaction to a courtroom punch? TRIALOOF
*Whiskey drinker's laundry problem? RYESTAIN
After a peace treaty is signed POSTWAR
Already roused AWOKEN
Be against OPPOSE
Bill for Bloody Marys TAB
Bit of jargon TERM
Bit of mental warfare, briefly PSYOP
Bluish color on a certain duck TEAL
Choose OPT
Civil wrong TORT
Clever SMART
Common color for salsa RED
Complete makeovers REDOS
Composer Gustav or Alma MAHLER
Country in the Mediterranean MALTA
Datum such as AQI STAT
Devonshire cream features CLOTS
Doubtful IFFY
Electricity sound ZAP
European peaks ALPS
Finishes ENDS
Full of specifics DETAILED
Go back, as the tide EBB
Got popular online TRENDED
Guided excursion TOUR
Had in common SHARED
In good shape HALE
Jeanne d'Arc, e.g.: Abbr STE
Letters after omicrons PIS
Lieu STEAD
List units ITEMS
Literary crowd member? WALDO
Look (for) SEARCH
LP speed RPM
Clues Answers
Mark of disgrace STIGMA
MDs DRS
Mediterranean resort area RIVIERA
Mesmerized ENRAPT
Miser's collections HOARDS
Obscene LEWD
One may nest on a cliff EAGLE
Pasta served at Sicilian weddings ZITI
Perform surgery OPERATE
Piece of writing that sounds like its third and fourth letters ESSAY
Places to manage workers? APIARIES
Planets, poetically ORBS
Prefix with "thermal" or "metric" ISO
Question of identity WHO
Rage IRE
Reduce to a pulp MASH
Road curve shape ESS
Sagacious SHREWD
Sandwich cookie parts WAFERS
Shapeless shape BLOB
Since ASOF
Sound like a pigeon COO
South American beast with a snout TAPIR
Spanish for "now" AHORA
Store covertly STASH
Stuff with stuff FILL
Summer hrs. in most states DST
System METHOD
The "R" of NPR RADIO
They work with feet and meters POETS
Took a loss ATEIT
Toward the setting sun WEST
Undesirable roommate SLOB
Unlike a green banana RIPE
Vietnamese soup PHO
Weather alert subjects STORMS
You'll get a hand for it ANTE
___ and kicking ALIVE