Universal Crossword Answers September 8 2017

Clue	Solution
Dark red or brownish-purple color	PUCE
Ever and ___	ANON
Get off ___ free	SCOT
Munro’s alias	SAKI
Long, great stories	EPICS
Bad way to be prepared?	ILL
Type of care, job or camp	DAY
Defector	EMIGRE
Mentally balanced	SANE
Puff ___ (snake variety)	ADDER
Authored	WROTE
Shari or Jerry	LEWIS
Lip-___ (fakes singing)	SYNCS
Sleuth’s cohort	TEC
Economic meas.	GNP
Norwegian capital	OSLO
As good as expected	UPTOPAR
Ain’t made right?	ISNT
"… and ___ the twain shall meet"	NEER
Congregation’s place	NAVE
Blossom support	STEM
Put a sharper edge on	WHET
Dude’s kin	BRO
Neutral shade	ECRU
Poetic tribute	ODE
With competence	ABLY
Respiratory sound	RALE
Capture digitally	SCAN
___ out (barely manages)	EKES
Cabbage with curly leaves	KALE
Grass variety	REDTOP
Famed director George	LUCAS
Form of lyric poem	EPODE
Fasten or attach	AFFIX
Neat or groovy!	NIFTY
Behold	SEE
USMC rank, briefly	COL
Braid, e.g.	TRESS
Plastic building block	LEGO
Soreness	ACHE
Innermost	CORE
Garishly bright	LOUD
Ticker tests, for short	EKGS
Start for "gram"	ANA
___ Paese (cheese variety)	BEL
No longer hot?	PASSE
Bad time for Caesar	IDES
Woodworking tools	AWLS
Open an aspirin bottle	UNCAP
Priest of the East	LAMA
Squirrel’s nest	DREY
A lazy chef will …	COOKITLYINGDOWN
Attract	ENTICE
Kind of code	GENETIC
Clean pots	SCOUR
Fourth estate	PRESS
Hotel alternatives	INNS
Gush forth	SPEW
Safety feature	SEATBELT
With a scratchy voice	HOARSE
The chef moving on from her past …	NEVERCOOKEDBACK
Tiny earthquake	TREMOR
Knee bones	PATELLAE
Siberian river	URAL
Urgings	YENS
Tends	LEANS
Standing up straight	ERECT
Toward the goal	UPFIELD
Delphic predictor	ORACLE
For his guests in the waiting room, a doctor hired a …	COFFEETABLECOOK
Entrance for a miner	ADIT
Vamoosed	GONE
Show indifference	SHRUG
Attractive	SEXY
Multicolored gemstone	OPAL
Things for new gardeners	SEEDS