Universal Crossword Puzzle Answer - Dec 31, 2014

Universal Crossword Puzzle Solution - Dec 31, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Help yourself" offering	BUFFET
"If all ___ fails ..."	ELSE
"In the headlights" animal	DEER
"Poly" add-on	ESTER
"Private" transportation	JET
1944 Normandy event	DDAY
Address for many officers	SIR
Alaska resident	ALEUT
Amount of medication	DOSE
Angora fleece	MOHAIR
Arizona features	MESAS
Batman's garment	CAPE
Be a pain in the neck	ANNOY
Be crazy about	ADORE
Be less than candid	LIE
Before, to a poet	ERE
Bluefin, e.g	TUNA
Bratty kid	IMP
Bread type	RYE
Canadian native	CREE
Chapter of history	ERA
Cultivating tool	HOE
Dawns, in poetry	MORNS
Delete	ERASE
Diesel of films	VIN
Difficult and controversial issues	HOTPOTATOES
Dynamite's kin	TNT
Easily infuriated	HOTTEMPERED
Emitted sunbeams	RAYED
Exodus commemoration feast	SEDER
Famines or shortages	DEARTHS
Fancy poem of tribute	ODE
Fly close to the ground	HEDGEHOP
Fox alternative	NBC
Fragrant root used in perfumes	ORRIS
Fringed carriages	SURREYS
Go for it again	RETRY
Grand-scale poetry	EPOS
Humanitarian symbol	REDCROSS

Clue	Answer
Inn owner, sometimes	HOTELKEEPER
Is after you?	ARE
It has a wet head and hops	ALE
Jacuzzis	HOTTUBS
Japanese aborigine	AINU
Kind of physics	META
Lewis the puppeteer	SHARI
Liftoff preceder?	ONE
Like one in a rage	HOTHEADEDLY
Married woman, in Madrid	SENORA
Medicinal ointment	SALVE
Money receiver	PAYEE
Multiple wombs	UTERI
Musical discernment	EAR
Nobel-winning UN agcy	ILO
Opposite of WSW	ENE
Parcels (with "out")	METES
Pared or skinned	FLAYED
Place for some durable furniture	PATIO
Pond scum, e.g	ALGAE
Popular cured meat	HAM
Rectangular paving stone	SETT
Rejected one	OUTCAST
Republican Party	GOP
Retribution seeker	AVENGER
Rhubarb or Boston cream	PIE
Scrooge's utterance	BAH
Sheep type	MERINO
Small and elegant	BIJOU
Star-to-be	COMER
String quartet part	VIOLA
Tenement arrangement	LEASE
The "O" of Cheerios	OAT
Tofu source, in London	SOYA
Type of house or glasses	OPERA
Volcano on Antarctica	EREBUS
Washout on the dance floor	OAF
Well-ordered	NEAT
Young goats	KIDS