Universal - Dec 18 2014

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Clues Answers
"... with the greatest of ___" EASE
"Beetle Bailey" bulldog OTTO
"Don't expunge that!" STET
"Laughing" animal HYENA
"Natal" lead-in NEO
"Now, where __ I?" WAS
"___ Care of Business" (BTO hit) TAKIN
Act grandmotherly DOTE
Alias, for short AKA
All riled up IRATE
All ___ (attentive) EARS
American military branch (Abbr.) USAF
Arizona has many MESAS
Assembly rules BYLAWS
At __ (disagreeing) ODDS
Australian flightless bird EMU
Banned growth-retardant spray ALAR
Big fuss TODO
Blow, as a volcano ERUPT
Buenos ___ AIRES
Buzzing annoyance GNAT
Bypass OMIT
Casino card game FARO
Catchwords MOTTOS
Change careers, e.g MAKEAFRESHSTART
Chose from a group CULLED
Church tenets, e.g ARTICLESOFFAITH
Colorful aquarium fish OPAH
Common greeting WAVE
Competently ABLY
Concerning bees APIAN
Container that sounds nasty? VIAL
Dairy department item CREAM
DEA operative FED
December helpers ELVES
Delhi dresses SARIS
Dermatology diagnosis, sometimes CYST
Destroy gradually ERODE
Dodge EVADE
Clues Answers
Exhaust POOP
Flat-bottomed vessel DORY
Giraffe relative with striped legs OKAPI
Go beyond pestering HARASS
Ideally ATBEST
Ill-mannered child BRAT
In ___ straits DIRE
It's less than a grand SPINET
Jarvik-7, e.g ARTIFICIALHEART
Length times width, e.g AREA
Less hale ILLER
Like Old King Cole MERRY
Main line, of a sort AORTA
Ness of "The Untouchables" ELIOT
Noah's oldest son SHEM
One of the Three Bears MAMA
Parakeet, often MOLTER
Phone greeting HELLO
Physics class unit ERG
Prefix with "pilot" AUTO
Provided medication DOSED
Romanian money LEU
Saudi Arabia neighbor OMAN
Shirt with a slogan, often TEE
Shrimp discard VEIN
Shut forcefully SLAM
Six-legged critter INSECT
Skulls CRANIA
Sum up, for short RECAP
The L of L-dopa LEVO
Unclean food, by Jewish law TREF
Use a spoon STIR
Volcano that blew its stack in 2002 ETNA
Wax's opposite WANE
Weak and listless ANEMIC
White frost HOAR
Wingtip's tip TOE
___ and outs (intricacies) INS
___-Town (the Windy City) CHI