Universal Crossword Puzzle Answers December 7 2017

Clue	Solution
"___ Complicated"	ITS
"Lethal Weapon" role	RIGGS
"Sanford and Son" spin-off	GRADY
"Wild Wild West" star Kevin	KLINE
___ ex machina	DEUS
A Muppet	ERNIE
Acquire	GET
Actor West	ADAM
Add a bit of color	TINT
Annapolis, e.g. acquires sales add-on =	CAPITALGAINSTAX
Apply it for an out	TAG
Blood-sucking fly	TSETSE
Bond offerer, e.g.	ISSUER
Canine cry	YELP
Church words	AMENS
Command to a dog	STAY
Confederate color	GRAY
Country tire stuff shady character =	INDIARUBBERTREE
Deceives	LIES
Detroit squad	LIONS
Disproportion	IMPARITY
Divisive word?	INTO
Duel tool	SWORD
Eggy places	NESTS
Egyptian river	NILE
Erred in a bee (var.)	MISSPELT
Faris and Kendrick	ANNAS
Ferber or Purviance	EDNA
Fork piece	TINE
Glass beer mug	SEIDEL
Golestan Palace locale	TEHRAN
Greek war god	ARES
Half ems	ENS
Hardy heroine	TESS
Heal, as bones	KNIT
Hit opposite	MISS
Homer hitter	BAT
House of Stuart monarch	ANNE
Inebriated one	SOUSE
Ireland county	CLARE
Is patient	WAITS
It equals 12 points	PICA
Japanese sashes	OBIS
Jazzy instrument	SAX
Kind of flu	ASIAN
Lady ___ (pop star)	GAGA
Madams two-one link abiding =	LADIESINWAITING
Major department store	SEARS
Makes a color change	DYES
NBC's former owner	RCA
On this very spot	HERE
Peruvian empire builder	INCA
Positioned, to a builder	SITED
Quite cold	GELID
Read quickly	SCAN
Room to maneuver	LEEWAY
Shore slappers	TIDES
Sick	ILL
Slow gastropod	SNAIL
Small street	LANE
Sneeze sound	KERCHOO
Sound of escaping air	SSS
Square root of 64	EIGHT
Tabloid pair	ITEM
They perform safe jobs	YEGGS
They're good listeners	EARS
Thin fishes	EELS
Thrill	ELATE
Tug-of-war necessity	ROPE
Two-tone whale	ORCA
Tyrannical leader	DESPOT
Urban greenspace	PARK
Wallach of film	ELI
West enders?	ERNS
Willis, in "Moonlighting"	ADDISON
Worshiped object	IDOL