Universal Crossword Answers - Mar 26, 2014

 Universal Crossword Solutions - Mar 26, 2014

Clue	Answer
"How unfortunate!"	ALAS
Ade flavor	LIME
Ages on end	EONS
All the rage	CHIC
Apprehended	NABBED
Attend to a pressing detail?	IRON
Back talk	SASS
Bathrobe's cousin	HOUSECOAT
Bosom companion?	BRA
Bring comfort to	SOOTHE
Burning braid	WICK
Canned-goods wrappers	LABELS
Charitable donations	ALMS
Churl	OAF
Climbing spikes	PITONS
Cooking device	HIBACHI
Dickens character Heep	URIAH
Discontinue for now	SUSPEND
Doing nothing	IDLE
Dried coconut meat	COPRA
End of a George Washington quote	ALIE
Feels optimistic	HOPES
Finalize an arrest	BOOKINTOCUSTODY
Finishes	ENDS
Foreboding sign	OMEN
Formerly owned	USED
Four-stringed instruments	UKES
Give voice to	UTTER
Grand ___, vintage	CRU
Greenland air base site	THULE
Hive residents	BEES
Hotel-door posting	RATES
In this manner	THUS
It's not meant to be shelved	COFFEETABLEBOOK
Kansas-to-Maine dir	ENE
Kelly of clowndom	EMMETT
Kind of Friday	GOOD
Large iron hook	GAFF
Leered at	EYED
Live like a parasite	MOOCH
Make a sheepshank	TIE
Minor falsehood	FIB
Office worker's calendar	APPOINTMENTBOOK
Oft-symbolic flower	ROSE
Ostrich cousin	EMU
Photo, for short	PIC
Point-and-click gizmo	MOUSE
Posted, say	SENT
Private eye	TEC
Purplish red	PUCE
Puts a question to	ASKS
Repaired, as a jacket elbow	PATCHED
Resolute	EARNEST
Richly iced sponge cake	GATEAU
Rub out	DOIN
Run like heck	HIE
Shake an Etch-a-Sketch	ERASE
Shield's boss	UMBO
Silvery salmon	SMOLT
Skip over	OMIT
Small brown singer	WREN
Some may be pulled in two directions	SAWS
Sorority letter	THETA
Space exploration org	NASA
Strange	ODD
Succulents for salves	ALOES
Swahili sir	BWANA
Test episode, say	PILOT
Took a nosedive	FELL
Vital element	LIFEBLOOD
Wade through mud	SLOSH
Weight-loss regimen	DIET
Where nails shouldn't be hammered	TOES
Wimbledon barrier	NET
Wrinkly tangelo variety	UGLI
You may take it lying down	REST