Universal - Dec 17 2012

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Clues Answers
"Born Free" lioness ELSA
"I Love Lucy" co-star Arnaz DESI
"Ripley's Believe It ___" ORNOT
"The time ___ come!" HAS
365-day periods, roughly YRS
Against the rules ILLICIT
Air intake cavity NOSTRIL
Annual refrain HAPPYBIRTHDAY
Area on a liner STEERAGE
Attack word SIC
Bark like a dog YELP
Bedtime recitation PRAYER
Best suited APTEST
Bleacher feature TIER
Bluenoses PRIGS
Bodybuilder's unit REP
Breaking ball SLIDER
Bring up the rear LAG
Bygone bird of New Zealand MOA
Candice of "Murphy Brown" BERGEN
Casaba's covering RIND
City on the Rio Grande LAREDO
Common garden sight ROSEBUSH
Cosmetic additive ALOE
Educated showoff PEDANT
Egg-laying mammal of Australia PLATYPUS
Eschews humility BRAGS
Exclamations of content AHS
Floating away? ASEA
From one viewpoint INAWAY
Genetic material DNA
Get rid (of) DISPOSE
Giving off light LUCENT
Good news GLADTIDINGS
Grammarians' concerns USAGES
Greatest of the apes GORILLA
Having the means ABLE
Hold out one's paw, say BEG
Clues Answers
Hurricane's center EYE
Intense anger IRE
Kind of foil or soldier TIN
Like some pickings SLIM
Man known for double takes? NOAH
Maps in maps INSETS
Match a poker bet SEE
Narrow winning margin EDGE
Not up to the task INEPT
Org. for attorneys ABA
Pastoral poem IDYLL
Piece in a B-movie, perhaps GAT
Pinball palace ARCADE
Pinings YENS
Pledge-week network PBS
Powerball game LOTTO
Praiseful hymn PAEAN
Prepare to fire AIM
Prepared potatoes RICED
Quaint stopover INN
Satisfied about PLEASEDWITH
Scottish negative NAE
Silly as a goose INANE
Soloist's rendition at the opera ARIA
Some Japanese-Americans SANSEI
Suspect's need ALIBI
They may be hammered out DENTS
To the exclusion of all else SOLELY
Twelve months ago LASTYEAR
Type of whiskey or setter IRISH
Vanishing PC monitor choice CRT
Walk with a hitch LIMP
Wine grape PINOT
Word with "cord" or "column" SPINAL
Word with "mannered" or "equipped" ILL
Young boy LAD
___ down (disappoint) LET
___ one's time (waits patiently) BIDES