Here are the answers to Universal Crossword puzzles Tuesday, October 18 2016.

Just as I predicted!” – SEE
Akin to – LIKE

Amber, for one – COLOR
Ann ___, Mich – ARBOR
Approaching, poetically – NIGH
Apt end to a peaceful day – GOODNIGHTSSLEEP
Attempted – TRIED
Auction offering – LOT
Automaton – ROBOT
Barnyard honker – GOOSE
Bawdy – LEWD
Bender – SPREE
Bit of severe weather – STORM
Boy Scout, at times – HIKER
Certain Ivy Leaguer – ELI
Cheese chunk – WEDGE
City in Pennsylvania – SCRANTON
Clear a blackboard – ERASE
Clothes presser – IRON
Command to a dog – HEEL
Comparatively sicker – ILLER
Court figure, briefly – STENO
Crew member – ROWER
Crime committed with bad lighting? – ARSON
Cuban couple – DOS
Device in the beauty salon – DRIER
Director Spike – LEE
Down in the dumps – BLUE
Express audibly – UTTER
Gun, as an engine – REV
Gunk – SLUDGE
Honeybunch alternative – DEARIE
Huge ship – LINER
Human thing to do, it’s said – ERR
Island nation east of Fiji – TONGA
Isle of exile for Napoleon – ELBA
It’s tough to fight, it’s said – CITYHALL
Item name derived from a person – EPONYM
Keg spigot – TAP
Kiwi’s extinct relative – MOA
Lecherous gaze – LEER
Like some sugar units – CUBED
Like Swiss cheese – HOLEY
Major network – NBC
Medicos, briefly – DRS
Mixtures or medleys – OLIOS
Move very gradually – CREEP
Musical exercise – SCALE
Name on a billboard – STAR
Ogre’s lack – HEART
One who has your home covered? – ROOFER
Oozes – SEEPS
P on a frat house – RHO
Parenthesis, essentially – ARC

Picnic pest – ANT
Pizza fractions, often – EIGHTHS
Pothook shape – ESS
Pronouncement – EDICT
River to the Rio Grande – PECOS
Section of a lyric poem – STROPHE
Set straight, as tires – ALIGN
Shop VIPs – STEWARDS
Some coins – DIMES
Some culture mediums – AGARS
Some freshwater ducks – TEALS
Sounds of understanding – AHS
Totally prepared – GOODANDREADY
Treat for a babysitter – GOODBEHAVIOR
U.N. workers protection gp – ILO
Valuable rock – ORE
Visibility helper – DEFOGGER
Window parts – SILLS
Word with “first” or “band” – AID
___ and aahed – OOHED
___ Lanka (Ceylon) – SRI
___-bodied – ABLE