Universal Crossword Puzzle Answers December 24 2017

Clues	Answers
"Heat of the Moment" group	ASIA
Adam's mate	EVE
Animal group	HERD
Anyone like you	PEER
Applaud	CLAP
Brain of a computer	CPU
Canal of song	ERIE
Capital of India?	RUPEE
Carpet measurement	AREA
Christmas item	TREE
Citrus hybrid	UGLI
City in northern India	AGRA
City near the Red Sea coast	MECCA
Close with some bite	SLAM
Collecting Soc. Sec.	RET
Comfort	EASE
Convenient pencil perches	EARS
Craftsman tools seller	SEARS
Cream-filled pastry	ECLAIR
De Gaulle's birthplace	LILLE
Disconnecting two objects	DECOUPLING
Downhill ski race	SLALOM
Enjoyed immensely	ATEUP
Even if, in poems	THO
Foreign currency	EURO
Geneticists' chain letters?	RNA
Gets an eyeful	OGLES
Greek alphabet member	THETA
Grown-up	ADULT
Hard basketball foul	HACK
Hard hockey shot	SLAP
Hawaiian inst.	UKE
Heavy military sword	SABER
Helping one	AIDER
Highway exit	RAMP
Hiker's stuff	GEAR
Impressive in scope	EPIC
Is dating	SEES
Kind of tube or pattern	TEST
Lagoon rings	ATOLLS
Liveliness of spirit	ESPRIT
Major artery	AORTA
Metal finish?	ELL
Model airplane sets	KITS
More trashed	MESSIER
Nordland resident	LAPP
Only U.S. marsupial	OPOSSUM
Parking place	SPOT
Person from 4-Down	SAUDI
Pie ___ mode	ALA
Playground diversion for two	SEESAW
Powerful propellers	ROCKETLAUNCHERS
Reversal of a sort	UTURN
Rich cakes	TORTES
Run off to wed	ELOPE
Scoundrel	CAD
Shocking game result	UPSET
Skirt past the knee	MIDI
Spasm	TIC
Spoiled child	BRAT
Storm heading, sometimes	SSW
Stuff in many cosmetics	ALOE
Tennis legend Chris and namesakes	EVERTS
They splash in the ocean	SPACECAPSULES
Transfer the title of	CEDE
Troublemaking bigmouths	BLUSTERERS
Veer sharply (var.)	SLUE
What the Seven Dwarfs were	MINERS
Wheel covering	HUBCAP
Wine server	CARAFE
Winter ailment	FLU
Word with "ear"	INNER
Worthless nonsense	TRIPE
Wrist bones	CARPI
Yearly astronomical events	LUNARECLIPSES
Zoo security?	CAGES