Universal - Dec 26 2012

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Clues Answers
"A ___ technicality" MERE
"America's Got Talent" network NBC
"Looper," e.g MOVIE
"No ifs, ___ or buts" ANDS
"The dele is off" notations STETS
"___ each life some rain ..." INTO
Air conditioner alternative CEILINGFAN
An ideal, in Chinese philosophy TAO
Ancient Britons CELTS
Area next to an ambulatory APSE
Arizona river GILA
Ashen WAN
Assign journalists to military units EMBED
At full speed, on the water AMAIN
Boxing match BOUT
Breastbones STERNA
Burt of Tinseltown REYNOLDS
Business card abbr TEL
Call for food ORDER
Candy store purchase JAWBREAKER
Chutzpah MOXIE
Court hearing OYER
Creator of Betamax SONY
Data INFO
Dirt spreader YENTA
Domesticated TAME
First name in old slapstick STAN
Flat tableland MESA
Frequent Goya subject the Duchess of ___ ALBA
Globes, spheres, etc ORBS
Gloomy atmospheres PALLS
Goal-oriented activity SOCCER
Had a bone to pick? ATE
Hardly height-challenged TALL
Heist haul LOOT
High jump need BAR
Honorific for a Turkish general (Var.) AGHA
Hours-long film, perhaps EPIC
It makes a kitty grow ANTE
Clues Answers
It may be helping or linking VERB
It's all about the ball bearing TEE
Itinerant worker MIGRANT
Kid 'n Play bash HOUSEPARTY
Legally prohibit DEBAR
Long, sweeping story SAGA
Low blackjack card TREY
Lures ENTICES
Make a steer of a bull GELD
Maternal relation ENATE
Mindless INANE
Nonverbal communication of a sort EYECONTACT
Not yet final, legally NISI
Nothing-doing? IDLE
Oft-twisted treat OREO
One familiar with litter CAT
Phone playback MESSAGE
Piggy's title MISS
Piglets (Var.) SHOTES
Presidential nickname of yore TEDDY
Prove to be false BELIE
Related AKIN
Ride-seeker's cry TAXI
Shoe feature TREAD
Sphere of influence AMBIT
Sticky semiliquid GOOP
Stir up, without a spoon RILE
Term of respect in India SRI
The ones here THESE
Thing of the past RELIC
This may sting a little BEE
Timeline units, often ERAS
Tongue-in-cheek humor IRONY
Undertaking ATTEMPT
Unexpressed yet understood TACIT
Vain, talkative person POPINJAY
Word with "skinny" or "Big" DIPPER
Work in the cutting room EDIT
Workplace posting MEMO