Universal Crossword Answers - Mar 24, 2014

 Universal Crossword Solutions - Mar 24, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Falstaff" composer Sir Edward	ELGAR
"Freeze" or "dote" preceder	ANTI
"Gentle" TV bear	BEN
"How Great Thou ___"	ART
Afternoon naps	SIESTAS
Annoying person or bug	PEST
Average Joe	SCHMO
Barnyard home	STY
Biblical shepherd	ABEL
Big bag	TOTE
Blood line	ARTERY
Boxing victory	KAYO
Breakfast side	BACON
Broad-winged hawk	BUTEO
Builders' offices	SITES
Cabinet department	LABOR
Calypso offshoot	SKA
Chinese monetary unit	YUAN
Couch's cousin	SOFA
Countdown start, often	TEN
Cupid, to Greeks	EROS
Currency on the Continent	EURO
D.C. dealmaker	POL
Decision-maker's critical moment	POINTOFNORETURN
Desktop graphic	ICON
Disgust	TURNONESSTOMACH
Divide	SEPARATE
Doe's mate	STAG
Extinct bird not known for its smarts	DODO
Eyes, to Nero	OCULI
Fall back, tidewise	EBB
Flour-and-fat sauce thickener	ROUX
Former items	EXES
Fortunate	LUCKY
Gather leaves, in a way	RAKE
Gaucho's gear	BOLA
Glass-half-empty sort	CYNIC
Glide on the ice	SKATE
Goldfinger's first name	AURIC
Golf's shortest stroke	PUTT
Gown's partner	CAP
Grandson of Abraham	ESAU
Ignore	TURNABLINDEYETO
Introduction to a book	PROEM
It abuts the bema	APSE
Jumping, kidney or lima	BEAN
Kournikova and Kendrick	ANNAS
Lead Soprano?	TONY
Line-___ veto	ITEM
Long heroic tale	EPIC
Lord's subject	SERF
Low, sturdy cart	DRAY
Mouse, to a mouser	PREY
Nap	SLEEP
Navigate waves, in a way	SURF
Nice forecast	SUNNY
Other nations, to Israelites	GOYIM
Pick out of a lineup	IDENTIFY
Pitchfork piece	TINE
Poetry Muse	ERATO
Prepared hashbrowns, say	RICED
Puffy	TUMID
Quaint lodgings	INNS
Rock climber's ridge	ARETE
Scoundrels, in British slang	ROTTERS
Skillful quality	ARTISTRY
Smithy's furnace	FORGE
Strong smell	ODOR
Tenor's neighbor	ALTO
Toiletries case	ETUI
Vancouver hockey player	CANUCK
Way of Lao-tzu	TAO
Western Nevada city	RENO
What hiphuggers hug	ILIA
White halos, as around suns	AUREOLES
___ capita	PER