Universal - Aug 8 2024

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Clues Answers
"Don't ___ me down!" LET
"Oh, nuts!" AWDRAT
"Skip to My ___" LOU
"That was close!" WHEW
'90s music purchases CDS
3/14/15, for one DATE
401(k) alternative IRA
Actor and comedian Penn KAL
Actor Cage, familiarly NIC
Ambient musician Brian ENO
Angry / Portuguese wine? MAD
Antlered beasts ELKS
Apple's mobile platform IOS
Beam of light RAY
Beg PLEAD
Blueprint deet SPEC
Breaks in relations RIFTS
Bud PAL
Charged particle ION
Chick-___-A FIL
Comic-Con, stereotypically NERDFEST
Common remote batteries AAS
Deed holder OWNER
Delight / Driving around for thrills? JOY
Distort / Stabbed with a stick? SKEW
Drink served with dim sum, often TEA
Egg cells OVA
Encrypted INCODE
Fabricated MADEUP
Fedora, e.g HAT
Fragrant evergreen FIR
Free (of) RID
Fur baby PET
Get up RISE
Go to sea SETSAIL
Helps pay for, as a gift GOESINON
Hi-___ image / Refurbishment? RES
Hog's home STY
Homer's neighbor NED
Hosp. areas ERS
Ida. neighbor ORE
Illuminated / Charlie Chaplin persona, with "the"? LIT
Joey or Dee Dee of punk rock RAMONE
Clues Answers
Joke GAG
Landscaping tool EDGER
Late-night talk show host Hall ARSENIO
Like some car windows TINTED
Lose, as fur SHED
Mani-pedi spot / Junk email blockers? SPA
Medieval clubs MACES
Naming IDING
Night before EVE
Oaf LOUT
Obtain GET
One bite, say ATASTE
One-celled organism AMOEBA
Opposite of post- PRE
OutKast or the Everly Brothers DUO
Pacific Ocean phenomenon LANINA
Perform a role ACT
Piece of concert gear AMP
Pirate's haul LOOT
Pop singer Rita ORA
Possible response to "Ya like anchovies?" IDONOT
Private Insta chats DMS
Pronoun paired with she HER
Record label for Whitney Houston ARISTA
Say again RESTATE
See 59-Across MATTER
Send out troops again REDEPLOY
Serve a meal to FEED
Shark feature / End of a baseball inning? FIN
Ships' rears STERNS
Slanted typeface, briefly ITAL
Tells on RATSOUT
Took a card DREW
Toothpaste container TUBE
Traffic sounds HONKS
Tug JERK
Usual "SNL" start COLDOPEN
Wine choice RED
With 60-Across, hypothetical substance in outer space ... and a literal hint to six black squares in this puzzle DARK
Workplace safety org OSHA
Zip NIL
___ for tat / Famed sunken ship? TIT
___ Nast / Strongly denounced? CONDE