Here are the answers to Universal Crossword puzzles Friday August 11 2017.

“Fifteen Miles on the ___ Canal” – ERIE
“Just ___ water” – ADD

“Kick” attachment – SIDE
___ Hawkins Dance – SADIE
___ Tome (African island) – SAO
A’s, in military code – ALFAS
Acid neutralizing base – ALKALI
Acre’s country – ISRAEL
Adams of Hollywood – AMY
Amazing accomplishment – FEAT
Any day now, to a bard – ANON
Any of the Antilles – ISLE
Artificial yellow spread – OLEO
Bird beaks – NEBS
Bridge positions – EASTS
Celestial twinkler – STAR
Chimney buildup – SOOT
Circumvented or dodged – EVADED
Dietary supplement – VITAMIN
Division word – INTO
Egyptian goddess of fertility – ISIS
Elbows or cattle zappers – PRODS
Embarrassing public display – SCENE
Fairy-tale baddie – OGRE
Former Disney leader Michael – EISNER
Geometric calculation – AREA
Glum drop? – TEAR
Gunfire outbursts – SALVOES
Have a meal – DINE
Inscribed thing made from a basis-pebble? – FOUNDATIONSTONE
Interstate escape – EXIT
It’s up for discussion – TOPIC
Japanese fencing – KENDO
Keyboard compositions – TOCCATAS
Lugosi of classic horror – BELA
Make usable again, as machinery – REFIT
Maternally related – ENATE
Midler of Hollywood – BETTE
More ill-mannered – RUDER
Most despicable – VILEST
Mythical king of Thebes – CREON
Neat – TIDY
Painter’s plaster – GESSO
Party leaders made from norm and attachments to pall? – STANDARDBEARERS

Pencil attachments – ERASERS
Persona non ___ – GRATA
Picnic-invading pests – ANTS
Pre-stereo – MONO
Put on the radio – AIRED
Queen’s attendants – LADIESINWAITING
Rain on one’s parade? – CONFETTI
River bank deposit – SILT
Shaped like Humpty Dumpty – OVOID
Sincere or solemn – EARNEST
Skunk’s defense – ODOR
Slang term for heroin – SCAG
Softest mineral – TALC
Some Maine trees – PINES
Sprang to one’s feet – AROSE
Starts a volley – SERVES
Statutes – LAWS
Table expander – LEAF
Takes a load off – SITS
Test – EXAM
Throw – TOSS
Tree house, of sorts – NEST
Type of sax – ALTO
Undersides of overhangs – SOFFITS
West African republic – GHANA
Woodworking file – RASP
Word with “fire” or “transit” – RAPID
Words that unite a couple – IDO
Writer Fannie – HURST
Zahn or Abdul – PAULA