Universal Crossword Answer - May 17, 2014

 Universal Crossword Solutions - May 17, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Adam Bede" author George	ELIOT
"Over the hill" in the military	AWOL
"What's Happening!" hairstyle	AFRO
"___! Open up!"	FBI
500 cars	RACERS
Adjust, as a timer	RESET
After-bath powder	TALC
Bacterial strain	ECOLI
Barley bristles	AWNS
Basketball VIP	COACH
Bears and Cubs	PROS
Blocked from sunlight	SHADY
Brass subordinate	AIDE
Cast off, biologically	EGEST
Casual greeting	HIYA
Certain Alaskan	ALEUT
Certain Sri Lankan	TAMIL
Chances of winning	ODDS
Checkout lines?	OBIT
Common Market inits., once	EEC
Completely rejects	WILLNOTHEAROFIT
Corner shape	ELL
Critters extinct since 1681	DODOS
Desert carrier	CAMEL
Deuce and a half-deuce	TREY
Diminutive, as a puppy	RUNTY
Dinner companion	DATE
Dispatch boat	AVISO
Doesn't forbid	LETS
Easily confused (Var.)	DITSY
Emulated a crow	CAWED
Escorted a tour	LED
Expenditures	OUTGO
Fabulist of yore	AESOP
Fertility clinic needs	OVA
Filly, e.g	FOAL
Flew a plane	PILOTED
Flu sufferer's woe	ACHES
Genesis garden	EDEN
Got by	MADEDO
Hammock life	EASE
Hold in reverence	ADORE
Hullaballoos	ADOS
Industrious one	DOER
Internal Revenue Service, e.g	TAXER
Intestinal obstruction	ILEUS
Inventory reduction ploy	SALE
Invigorates (with "up")	PEPS
It can cover the bases	TARP
Labyrinth	MAZE
Lake Erie, compared to the other Great Lakes	SHALLOWBOTTOMED
Les Etats-___ (United States)	UNIS
Melt	THAW
Mistreatment	ILLUSE
Nothing at Wimbledon	ZERO
Nut on a wheel	LUG
Overwhelm with laughter	SLAY
Pass by, as time	ELAPSE
Pelvis bones	ILIA
Place for a rapper	DOOR
Praises highly	EXALTS
Produce-section buy	CANTALOUPEMELON
Softly hit fly	BLOOP
Some gymwear	TSHIRTS
Some time ___	AGO
Southwestern crockpot	OLLA
Spot for a padlock	HASP
Sunset locale	WEST
Time for a shower	APRIL
Use an old IBM Selectric	TYPE
Very small bit	IOTA
Walk in up to the ankles	WADE
Whole bunch	OODLES
Wood ash products	LYES
Word with "fancy" or "imagine"	THAT
Yemeni seaport	ADEN