Newsday.com - Jul 18 2008

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''Brokeback Mountain'' director LEE
''Hamlet'' character ROSENCRANTZ
''That's awful!'' OHNO
'80s Olympian runner COE
2002 Nobel laureate CARTER
ABM component ANTI
Affirm AVER
Ages ERAS
Annoy VEX
Backslide of a sort RELAPSE
Baloney POPPYCOCK
Battling ATIT
Beamed LITUP
Budget alternative ALAMO
Checkout-line unit ITEM
Cholesterol reducer OATBRAN
Conductor from Mumbai MEHTA
Congressional divider AISLE
Covered with metal CLAD
Diamond stat RBI
Easter accessory BONNET
Eastern strings SITAR
Egret relative CRANE
Elapse GOBY
Embarrassing defeat ROUT
End a call HANGUP
Enthusiastic verse ODE
Fla. city STPETE
French article LES
Get rid of ERASE
Glaswegian, for one SCOT
Got to IRKED
Green-lights OKAYS
Highest-quality PRIME
Hypotenuse neighbor LEG
July birthstone RUBY
Keeping everyone waiting LATE
Kept one's fingers crossed HOPED
Kew carriage PRAM
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Kids around JOKES
Like Inspector Clouseau INEPT
Major ending ETTE
Mans OPERATES
Mediterranean color AZURE
Most reliable SUREST
Nat King Cole tune MONALISA
Neighbor of India NEPAL
Newest Supreme Court member ALITO
OAS member PERU
Old children's game MUMBLETYPEG
One in a six-pack CAN
Pedigree alternative ALPO
Penultimate Greek letter PSI
Philosopher Descartes RENE
Pipeline contents GAS
Plus, so to speak ASSET
Potter's purchase SOIL
Products of erosion RAVINES
Profits, informally TAKE
Stars of typography ASTERISKS
Stimulate SPUR
Sting BITE
Subcontinental potentate RAJA
Swagger STRUT
Taxing subject INCOME
Tell-alls, e.g. BIOS
Trash DEEPSIX
Turkish coin LIRA
Two-time Grand Slam winner LAVER
Wall St. event IPO
Weather-report word TEMP
Where heros are bought DELI
Where reeds are found OBOE
Where Truro is CAPECOD
Word to Fido BEG
Work for a combo GIG
Worked on one's locks, maybe DYED
Worship ADORE