Universal - Jan 1 2017 Crossword Answer

Universal - Jan 1 2017 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"Joie de vivre"	ELAN
"Mater" lead-in	ALMA
Abilities	SKILLS
As good a time as any, if tipsy?	SOMEWINEMORNING
Baby's time-out	NAP
Baseball infield covers	TARPS
Before, in poetry of old	ERE
Big goof	OAF
Big-time public speaker	ORATOR
Birdlike	AVIAN
Boots out of office	OUSTS
Brief time spans, briefly	SECS
Bullish times	UPS
Burg relative	TOWN
Decidedly wicked	EVIL
Designer Anne	KLEIN
Didn't play an instrument?	SANG
Domestic beer?	HOMEBREW
End, in Cannes	FINIS
Entree feature, often	MEAT
Ermine in its brown summer coat	STOAT
Eve's grandson who lived 905 years	ENOS
Family origins	ROOTS
Faux butter	OLEO
Feature of a putting green	HOLE
Feeling blue	SAD
Formally hand over, as property	CEDE
From square one	ANEW
From the mouth	ORAL
Get some shut-eye	SLEEP
Gibson of Hollywood	MEL
Handbag handles	STRAPS
Homer's bartender	MOE
Huge hunk of bacon	SLAB
In a vertical direction, nautically	APEAK
Inexperienced one	NAIF
Inquisition victim	HERETIC
It was terrific in the '90s	RAD

Clues	Answers
It's all uphill from here	NADIR
Italian city where Columbus was born	GENOA
Landlord, often	OWNER
Large dark-red oval organs	SPLEENS
Light, delicate and airy	ETHEREAL
Like seven, but not eight	ODD
Lost color	FADED
Makers of big heads	EGOS
Military scouting mission	RECON
Mountain that Moses climbed	SINAI
No matter what happens, to Porky Pig?	COMERAINORSWINE
One who won't keep off the grass?	STONER
Orange leftover	RIND
Patriot Hale	NATHAN
Preminger of movie fame	OTTO
Pro ___ (in proportion)	RATA
Really spooky	EERIE
Road sign offering a caution	YIELD
Savvy about	ONTO
Scuttlebutt	TALK
Send word	NOTIFY
Ship of Columbus	PINTA
Skip past	OMIT
Slowly, in music scores	LENTO
Smell that entices	AROMA
Snacked	ATE
Solo at the opera	ARIA
Some turkey parts	LEGS
Start a game of gin	DEAL
State of the Corn Belt	IOWA
Teapot tempests	ADOS
Thompson of "Howards End"	EMMA
What every good pilot must do	LAND
What the football team drank at practice?	WINEOFSCRIMMAGE
Withdraw from office	DEMIT
Word of division	INTO
Work hard	TOIL
You might find the captain at it	HELM