Universal - May 25 2012

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Clues Answers
"Are not!" comeback AMSO
"Close, but no cigar" ALMOST
"Lights out" bugle tune TAPS
"Not guilty" is one PLEA
"___ directed" USEAS
.edu alternative GOV
Adjusts, as a spark plug GAPS
Alternative to Mega Bloks LEGO
Always used by Longfellow? EER
Ancient Greek marketplace AGORA
Any grape, banana, etc BACCA
Assists, criminally ABETS
Astonishes AMAZES
Astronomer, often STARGAZER
Author Hemingway ERNEST
Autocrats of yore TSARS
Automatic learning method ROTE
Ax handle HILT
Bacteria culture medium AGAR
Basking layabout SUNBATHER
Belgian 1914 battle river YSER
Blood flow blockage CLOT
Burning crime ARSON
Business letter encl SASE
Calm, cool and collected SERENE
Casa kitchen crock OLLA
Coffee-shop equipment URNS
Commercial pieces ADS
Common house plant FERN
Competed VIED
Craft a totem pole, e.g CARVE
Dirt-dishing newspaper RAG
Droopers in drowsiness LIDS
Enjoyment in cruelty SADISM
First name of a cartoon duck DAFFY
Gentleman of the road HOBO
Get-up-and-go PEP
Hindu musical form RAGA
Huge bulldozer EARTHMOVER
Clues Answers
Irksome ones PESTS
It may be worn on a sneaker TREAD
Jackie's second hubby ARI
Kuwaiti prince EMIR
Last word of "The Wizard of Oz" HOME
Letter that might go through a filter EMAIL
Light ___ (almost weightless) ASAIR
Like a waif or wafer THIN
Lobbies with glass ceilings ATRIA
Luxurious bedding material SATIN
Medical advice, often REST
Mediocre SOSO
NASCAR event RACE
Needle point? EAST
Not for the first time AGAIN
One with lots of experience OLDHAND
Outpouring, as of words SPATE
Payback, in Buddhism KARMA
Put into piles SORT
Put through the blender PUREE
Rapscallion SCAMP
Right-hand man AIDE
School for Prince William ETON
Short-___ (of brief duration) LIVED
Skewered dish KEBAB
Start of an invention IDEA
Storklike bird IBIS
That counterpart THIS
Top choice, slangily FAVE
Ultrasmall photo MICRODOT
Underwater excavation machine DREDGE
White House nickname, once ABE
White lightning maker MOONSHINER
Wife of a duke DUCHESS
Within easy reach of NEAR
Word with "air" or "atmospheric" PRESSURE
Yemeni gulf city ADEN
Young's partner in accounting ERNST
___ carte ALA