Universal - Nov 19 2019 Crossword Answer

Universal - Nov 19 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Jesuit missionary Francis	XAVIER
Length of service	TENURE
Leveling wedge	SHIM
Like cutting-edge gadgets	HITECH
List-ending abbr	ETC
Literature Nobelist Alice	MUNRO
Make no decision about	SITON
Man cave, perhaps	DEN
Nash who versified, "... if called by a panther, Don't anther"	OGDEN
Obama ___	ERA
Often-seared tuna	AHI
One may be bulletproof	VEST
Ortiz of "Whiskey Cavalier"	ANA
Pale	ASHEN
Palindromic sheep	EWE
Patio furniture material	RATTAN
Pen filler	INK
Personal ID	SSN
Pertinent	GERMANE
PETA target	FUR
Play the flute	TOOTLE
Safety feature on a hamster ball	AIRHOLE
Send an emoji, say	TEXT
Separate grain from	THRESH
Shark habitat	SEA
Snob descriptor	EFFETE
Sticks (out)	JUTS
Stir together	INTERMIX
Subject to spasms	TWITCHY
Tear apart	REND
The "S" of STEM, briefly	SCI
Usually victorious rivals	NEMESES
Verbal hide-and-seek giveaway	IMINHERE
Wall St. launch	IPO
What an interviewer does	ASKS
Wine barrel wood	OAK
Word after "cold" or "crew"	CUT
Worm's-___ view	EYE

Clues	Answers
"Agent Running in the Field" author	LECARRE
"I can't believe it!" letters	OMG
"I don't think so"	UHUH
"No ifs, ___ or buts!"	ANDS
*Bad space to land on after passing go	INCOMETAX
*Like most Christmas trees	CONIFEROUS
*One attacking settled beliefs	ICONOCLAST
*Patch substance, sometimes	NICOTINE
A, in Normandy	UNE
Acronymic furniture retailer	IKEA
Ad follower?	HOC
Army or fire insect	ANT
Attempts, informally	STABS
Autographed	SIGNED
Baltimore winter hrs	EST
Big Island garland	LEI
Bright finish	SHEEN
Buses, bikes and such	TRANSIT
Bygone town announcers	CRIERS
Castle tower	TURRET
Chief	LEADER
City in eastern Mo	STL
Cockpit backup	COPILOT
Conflict	STRIFE
Did a deli worker's task	SLICED
Duck instrument in "Peter and the Wolf"	OBOE
Dwell	RESIDE
End of a short work week?	FRI
Fifty-fifty flip, or a hint to each starred answer's first four letters	COINTOSS
Ghana's capital	ACCRA
Groups of eight	OCTETS
Hang without purpose	LOITER
Having feeling	SENSATE
Height: Prefix	ACRO
High heels, e.g	SHOES
Humorist Bombeck	ERMA
In high style	CHIC
Jazz sessions	JAMS