Universal - Dec 31 2020 Crossword Answers
| Clues | Answers |
| "J'accuse...!" writer Zola | EMILE |
| "Your highness" | SIRE |
| 20 dispenser | ATM |
| Admit to knowing | LETON |
| Arctic or snowshoe animal | HARE |
| Beginnings of ideas | GERMS |
| Big name in Italian fashion | ARMANI |
| Brouhaha | ADO |
| California/Nevada resort area, informally | TAHOE |
| Catalog insert | ORDERFORM |
| Certain unpopular collector | TAXMAN |
| City in northwestern Pennsylvania | ERIE |
| Civil rights activist Ruby | DEE |
| Combined, as funds | POOLED |
| Common drying agent in packaging (see letters 6 to 8 in this answer) | SILICAGEL |
| Cowardly | CRAVEN |
| December 31, briefly | NYE |
| Dined | ATE |
| Drive very fast | RACE |
| Eavesdropping org | NSA |
| End of an ultimatum | ELSE |
| Eve, for Cain and Abel | MOM |
| Fellow associate | COMRADE |
| Fiona in "Shrek," for one | OGRESS |
| Fly a plane | AVIATE |
| Gave the once-over | EYED |
| Get ready to eat a kid's meal? | TEETHE |
| Highest point value for a Scrabble tile | TEN |
| Jones or James of jazz | ETTA |
| Karaoke need, informally | MIKE |
| Kick out of school | EXPEL |
| Kimono sash | OBI |
| Less constrained | FREER |
| Like owls' feet | TALONED |
| Maximally unpleasant situation | THEPITS |
| Medication-approving org | FDA |
| Millenniums, for instance ... or a hint to the hidden words in 17-, 31- and 44-Across | TIMESPANS |
| More cunning | SLIER |
| More tightly packed | DENSER |
| NASCAR legend Yarborough | CALE |
| One who is done for | GONER |
| Placed on a pedestal | ADORED |
| Playground game with a lot of running | TAG |
| Really messy room | STY |
| Realtor's bare-bones offering | LOT |
| Rings out | PEALS |
| Romulus or Remus | TWIN |
| Saudi Arabia neighbor | OMAN |
| Says with conviction | AVERS |
| Senator Feinstein | DIANNE |
| Sign of summer? | LEO |
| Smell of holiday cookies, for instance | AROMA |
| Snakes by the Nile | ASPS |
| Sounded shocked | GASPED |
| Split in two | BISECT |
| Spring training time | PRESEASON |
| Stir in | ADD |
| That sow | HER |
| Toronto is on its shore (4 to 6) | LAKEONTARIO |
| Tubular pasta | PENNE |
| Turkic people (STRATA anagram) | TATARS |
| Ukrainian port | ODESSA |
| Unduly | TOO |
| University where the Clintons met | YALE |
| Usually broad road: Abbr | AVE |
| Vendor | SELLER |
| Waste little by little (6 to 8) | FRITTERAWAY |
| Water balloon sound | SPLAT |
| Wear down | ERODE |
| Went wild | RANRIOT |
| What a go-getter is often full of | ENERGY |
| What old mattresses do | SAG |
| Win-win | NOLOSE |
| Word within "Miami-Dade" | AMID |
| Yankee's Baltimore rival | ORIOLE |
| ___ moment | AHA |
