Universal - Dec 17 2022

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Clues Answers
"All kidding ___ ..." ASIDE
"Animal" in one's throat FROG
"Happily!" GLADTO
"I accept your offer!" DEAL
"Just think of the possibilities!" IMAGINE
A couple TWO
Abandons DESERTS
Above-ground railways, briefly ELS
Arduous efforts SLOGS
At full throttle ALLOUT
Bad showing for an athlete OFFGAME
Below-the-belt campaign stratagem SMEARTACTIC
Bit of gossip RUMOR
Came up short FELLSHY
Carried on, as a campaign WAGED
CO and NO, chemically OXIDES
Common purchase before popping the question DIAMONDRING
Controlled substance DRUG
Cut a little TRIM
Dance with destiny TEMPTFATE
Draw aimlessly DOODLE
Drum inspection? EAREXAM
Flubbed ERRED
Frozen Italian desserts GELATI
Get lunch, say GRABABITE
Group of military officers CADRE
Hadn't been switched off WASON
Holiday wreath decorations PINECONES
Infield cover during a rain delay TARP
Invalidate NEGATE
Knee part, briefly ACL
Less in harm's way SAFER
Like some meds at CVS OTC
Looped in via email CCED
Martial art also known as shadowboxing TAICHI
Clues Answers
Meaning of the first word in "veni, vidi, vici" ICAME
Most overcast, in London GREYEST
Music genre whose performers have big 'dos HAIRMETAL
Nav. device GPS
Neighbor of Scotland ENGLAND
NFL six-pointers TDS
Not straight, perhaps GAY
One who calls strikes at home UMP
Opposite of wax WANE
Paid athlete PRO
Raw material for maple syrup TREESAP
Reply to "Merci" DERIEN
Search engine spider, e.g BOT
Seaside structure in Santa Monica PIER
SHO subsidiary for cinephiles TMC
Skip a grade, e.g LEAPAHEAD
Solid gamble GOODBET
Something to pitch at camp TENT
Stage for an age-related crisis MIDLIFE
Subject of staff chatter THEBOSS
Tiniest amount of titanium ATOM
Tom ___ (gin cocktail) COLLINS
Top of an Office window? MENUBAR
Type of engine on an old locomotive STEAM
Type of ray in the ocean MANTA
Vatican tenure PAPACY
Way to check if milk is spoiled SMELLTEST
What a womb contains FETUS
Without a plus-one ALONE
Word after "scientific" or "Socratic" METHOD
Workers with many "STAT" requests ERDOCTORS
Writes, as music NOTATES
___ Peace Prize NOBEL
___ salts EPSOM
___-Air (ritzy L.A. neighborhood) BEL