Newsday.com - Aug 17 2008

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Clues Answers
''. . . bug in __'' ARUG
''. . . or __ just me?'' ISIT
''Are not!'' response AMTOO
''Lou Grant'' star ASNER
''Price negotiable'' letters OBO
''Sunday Morning'' host CHARLESOSGOOD
''The Music Man'' setting IOWA
''When pigs fly!'' NEVER
''Wild'' or ''brown'' food RICE
2008 Stallone film RAMBO
90 Across had one BEARD
Advil competitor ALEVE
Animated fowl DONALDDUCK
Appearance LOOKS
Approves OKS
Aquanaut's base SEALAB
Aquarium favorite PENGUIN
Astronaut Collins EILEEN
At the right time ONCUE
Attack from all sides BESET
Aykroyd et al. DANS
Bad to the bone EVIL
Bank-acct. entry INT
Bearing MIEN
Belgian-born sleuth HERCULEPOIROT
Belly ABDOMEN
Between, in Bordeaux ENTRE
Biblical idol BAAL
Bishop's dir. DIAG
Bk. after Amos OBAD
Blacksmith's block ANVIL
Blockhead DODO
Borscht basics BEETS
Candle count YEARS
Castro of Cuba RAUL
Cat comment MEOW
City or tube preceder INNER
Civil wrong TORT
Coffeehouse tea CHAI
Collect AMASS
Comic-strip screams EEKS
Comics hubby DAGWOODBUMSTEAD
Cratchit's employer SCROOGE
Cruller cousin DONUT
Dazzling effect ECLAT
Do lunch EAT
Don't invite SNUB
Dyeing tub VAT
Eclectic magazine UTNE
Egyptian snakes ASPS
End of many co. names INC
End of the 16th century MDC
European capital DUBLIN
Fast-food franchise founder COLONELSANDERS
Gibbons and gorillas APES
Golfer Ernie ELS
Hankerings URGES
Harmony, for short SYNC
Hebrew month ELUL
Hoop edge RIM
Hound healer VET
Hunter's need LICENSE
Improvised sleeping bag BEDROLL
In a klutzy way INEPTLY
Incense ANGER
Income source JOB
Itty-bitty biter GNAT
Japanese noodles RAMEN
Jaunty tune LILT
Jimmy Carter's middle name EARL
Keebler character ELF
Letters on a Cardinal's cap STL
Letters on spacesuits NASA
Clues Answers
Library transactions LOANS
Light weight OUNCE
Like always ASUSUAL
Like some moon-based movements TIDAL
Like some vessels SEAGOING
Limburger and Neufchatel CHEESES
Look after SEETO
Mend a skirt, perhaps REHEM
Mentadent alternative ORALB
Midway worker CARNY
Molecule part ATOM
Munich mister HERR
Nary a soul NOTONE
Neither masc. nor fem. NEUT
NFL linebacker and bow-tie merchant DHANIJONES
Nigeria neighbor CHAD
Not for AGAINST
Nuclear trial HTEST
Old hi-fi recordings MONOS
Olden days YORE
One who's worshipped IDOL
Opening bars INTRO
Over yonder THERE
Papal court CURIA
Part of the UK ENG
PBS science guy BILLNYE
Penn. neighbor DEL
Pennsylvania port ERIE
Perfectly pitched TUNED
Pharmacist's filling, for short SCRIP
Picture puzzle REBUS
Put in hock PAWNED
Rant and rave STORM
Reform Party candidate of '92 PEROT
Remove, to an editor DELE
Reside DWELL
Resides where one works LIVESIN
Reunion attendees ALUMNI
Rimes of country music LEANN
River to the Rhône ISERE
Roller-coaster unit CAR
Rowboat needs OARS
Running free LOOSE
Scholarly volume TOME
School of whales GAM
Scold mildly CHIDE
Simile center ASA
Ski trail SLOPE
Small talk CHITCHAT
Smell ODOR
Something to consider FACTOR
State with certainty AVER
Summer shirt TEE
Tennessee's state flower IRIS
Track events RELAYS
Traditional knowledge LORE
Trap by winter weather ICEIN
Turn around REVERSE
Unadorned BARE
Underhanded SLY
Very small TEENY
War-era president ABRAHAMLINCOLN
Ward off AVERT
Warm up, as leftovers REHEAT
Webster of dictionaries NOAH
Wet blanket BORE
Window alternative AISLE
Wooden rod DOWEL
Worthy principles IDEALS
WWII turning point DDAY
__ lazuli LAPIS
__ Minor (Little Dipper) URSA
__-tiller ROTO