Universal - Dec 29 2005

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"A __ formality!" MERE
"Bed-in" participant Yoko ONO
"Please, make yourself comfortable" SIT
"Rule, Britannia!" composer Thomas ARNE
"Up, up and away" defunct flier TWA
''Amazin''' team METS
''Give that ___ cigar!'' MANA
''Miracle'' workers of 1969 METS
''The Hairy ___'' (O'Neill play) APE
''The Wizard of Oz'' actor LAHR
''The Wizard of Oz'' actor LAHR
''___ goes there?'' WHO
1965 hit for The Impressions AMEN
2:1, e.g. ODDS
45th of 50 UTAH
A grand instrument PIANO
A hardhat might drive one PILE
Abet's partner AID
Acoustic organ EAR
Additionally ASWELL
Address an audience ORATE
Agatha Christie's title DAME
Air base in Greenland THULE
Airplane staff CREW
Algonquian-speaking tribe CREE
All told INTOTO
Ancient animal shelter ARK
Angry feeling IRE
Annoyances PESTS
Anonymous people ONES
Answer (for) ATONE
Answered a charge in court PLED
Approach to the altar NAVE
Author Emile ZOLA
Baby buggy? LARVA
Baryshnikov's co-star in "White Nights" HINES
Befuddled ASEA
Ben-Hur's way ITER
Bits of work ERGS
Blog entries POSTS
Blubber WEEP
Boat propellers OARS
Bone-related OSTEAL
Bonfire aftermath ASH
Book-lined room STUDY
Boring routine RUT
British firearm STEN
British firearm STEN
Buffaloes SNOWS
Burnish SCOUR
Burnish SCOUR
By no means long-winded TERSE
Cake serving SLICE
Call evil upon CURSE
Capital of Switzerland? ESS
Casbah setting ALGIERS
Certain atmospheric layer OZONE
Change to 000 RESET
Cheerleader's asset PEP
Choir member ALTO
Civil War participant NORTH
Conquered congers EELED
Construction girder IBEAM
Cook in a wok FRY
Cookie favorites OREOS
Covers with a blanket? SNOWS
Cry of determination THESHOWMUSTGOON
Cul-de-___ SAC
Daily grind RUT
Dare follower, sometimes WAGER
Davis Cup game TENNIS
Decided on OPTED
Dehydrated DRY
Deprive of sustenance STARVE
Didn't get a seat STOOD
Diminutive drum TABOR
Director's place BEHINDTHESCENES
Do an impression of APE
Domineered BOSSED
Elvis Presley, e.g. HARDACTTOFOLLOW
Emily and Marjorie POSTS
Entertainment maxim THESHOWMUSTGOON
Exercised one's discretion OPTED
Eye drops? TEARS
Eyeball coat CORNEA
Faces, more or less OVALS
Fancy water pitcher EWER
Fencers' swords EPEES
Flavorful SAPID
Football, outside the U.S. SOCCER
For, how or what ending EVER
Foreign ALIEN
Fourth piggy's portion NONE
Fricker of ''My Left Foot'' BRENDA
Fricker of ''My Left Foot'' BRENDA
From stem to ___ STERN
Game that's not hands-on SOCCER
Gandhi's seat NEWDELHI
George's collaborator IRA
George's collaborator IRA
Greek vowel IOTA
Hasten RUSH
Hindu teacher SWAMI
Hindu teacher SWAMI
Hire, as a bus CHARTER
Home to many Indians NEWDELHI
Hotel no-nos, often PETS
Humans do it ERR
If you're human, you'll do it ERR
Impart vigor to ENERGIZE
Infinitesimal WEE
Invigorate ENERGIZE
Invoke misfortune CURSE
Kind of energy or flare SOLAR
Clues Answers
Kind of hour or job RUSH
Kind of nerve OPTIC
Landlord, once a month RENTCOLLECTOR
Last letters, in Britain ZEDS
Let the tears come WEEP
Let ___ a secret INON
Like a musical staff LINED
Like a VCR after a power outage RESET
Like Miss America of 1995 DEAF
Like some bombs or cookies SMART
Like some bores TIDAL
Linguistic prefix INDO
Lipstick holder TUBE
Looped cross ANKH
Lordly ranks TITLES
Magnetic direction NORTH
Makes it from start to finish LASTS
Making distinctions of little importance HAIRSPLITTING
Mariner's peril REEF
Math class preposition INTO
Mild strokes? PETS
Moppets TOTS
Moppets TOTS
More than suspected KNEW
Napoleon's cousin? ECLAIR
Netflix selections TITLES
Nitrogen AZOTE
Nobel Prize winner, e.g. LAUREATE
Not docked ASEA
Not excluded INON
Not perfect circles OVALS
Nudniks PESTS
Number after sette OTTO
Off-white shade EGGSHELL
On the wagon DRY
Ordered (around) BOSSED
Oscar winner Sorvino MIRA
Pack to the future? TAROT
Pack to the future? TAROT
Palindromic name OTTO
Pants alternative SKIRT
Papal vestment ORALE
Pen, e.g. SHE
Pharmacist's tool PESTLE
Pioneer Day state UTAH
Poi source TARO
Poi source TARO
Polecat's trademark ODOR
Pot for stew OLLA
Put on a clean shirt, e.g. CHANGE
QED middle ERAT
Questionnaire box, perhaps NONE
Rice cooked in broth PILAF
Right to the point TERSE
Right to the point TERSE
Rip apart REND
Road for Caesar ITER
Rudder attachment TILLER
Rudder attachment TILLER
Scrubs BUSHES
Sermon punctuator AMEN
Serving no purpose OTIOSE
Shape of the president's office OVAL
Shelterward ALEE
Showstopper HARDACTTOFOLLOW
Shrubbery BUSHES
Signs of sorrow or joy TEARS
Small-time ruler SATRAP
Smoke detector NOSE
Social class CASTE
Some cookie favorites OREOS
Some nerve? OPTIC
Something I can't use, but you can ARE
Source of some hallucinations LSD
Specialized lingoes ARGOTS
Split evenly HALVE
Spot for a keystone ARCH
Strong cleaning solution? ELBOWGREASE
Sty resident PIG
Subway convenience STRAP
Subway train convenience STRAP
Tear violently REND
The fourth was terrible IVAN
Their tips are well-guarded EPEES
To be, to Brutus ESSE
Tolstoy hero IVAN
Toothpaste holder TUBE
Toward shelter ALEE
Town in Greenland THULE
TV's Agent 86 SMART
Type of window DORMER
Typesetter's units EMS
Ultimatum end ORELSE
Unfounded, as gossip IDLE
Unmixed, to a mixologist NEAT
Use a cleaver, maybe RIVE
Walk like a rooster STRUT
Walk like a rooster STRUT
Walking ___ (elated) ONAIR
Went for the cuspidor SPAT
West and Jemison MAES
West and Jemison MAES
What's seen in the middle of summer? EMS
Where many work BEHINDTHESCENES
Where you'll find "The Office" NBC
Which person WHO
Who can come before it EVER
Williams the baseball legend TED
Word in many law firm names AND
___ del Sol COSTA
___ kwon do TAE
___ Mawr BRYN
___ Mawr College BRYN
___ on the side of caution ERR