Newsday.com - Aug 24 2008

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Clues Answers
''A votre __!'' SANTE
''Chicago'' Oscar role VELMA
''Cope Book'' aunt ERMA
''Die Fledermaus'' maid ADELE
''Guys and Dolls'' tune SUEME
''Hacienda'' room SALA
''Here comes trouble!'' OHNO
''In excelsis __'' DEO
''Law & Order'' characters DAS
''Turn up the heat!'' BRR
''Well, __!'' ILLBE
''__ sock in it!'' PUTA
''__-di . . .''(start of a Beatles lyric) OBLA
Abba of Israel EBAN
Adapt for new uses REFIT
Adjusts, as sails TRIMS
Alpine river AAR
Annual-report diagram PIECHART
Awakened spiritually REBORN
Basic principle TENET
Burkina Faso neighbor NIGER
Captivate the AMA? BEWITCHDOCTORS
Card game LOO
Carpet-store meas. SQFT
Cinch course EASYA
Classic cars REOS
Cleveland baseballers, familiarly THETRIBE
Consequences for tardiness LATEFEES
Cravings THIRSTS
Defeat, in a joust UNHORSE
Dele's opposite STET
Diamond corner BASE
Dickensian expletive BAH
Do banking work LEND
Do some informal polling ASKAROUND
Draw a bead on AIMAT
Erstwhile GM division OLDS
Explosive experiment HTEST
Fall, to Ferdinand OTONO
Film starter MICRO
Fish holder TANK
French equivalent of 62 Down UNE
Fund PAYFOR
Furnishings DECOR
Future flower ROSEBUD
Gag reaction HAHA
Garfield's foil ODIE
Gaze upon a stronghold? BEHOLDTHEFORT
George Smiley, e.g. SPY
German article DER
Go __ for (help) TOBAT
Goof ERR
Gossip DIRT
Graceful galloper ARAB
H H H ETAS
Half of Brangelina PITT
Ham's father NOAH
Have very successful children? BEGETRICH
Hebrew letter ALEPH
Help, as a hood ABET
House overhang EAVE
Illustrations ART
In back of the barracks? BEHINDQUARTERS
IRS employee CPA
Jazz singer Mercer MABEL
JFK's kid brother EMK
Joel Chandler Harris characters BRERS
KOA customer RVER
Lincoln treasury secretary CHASE
Lost one's lap STOOD
Lucie's dad DESI
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Mariner's concern TIDE
Medicinal plant ALOE
Metric heavy weight TONNE
Mideast salad TABOULI
Mystery writer Macdonald ROSS
Nicholas or Alexander TSAR
Nitrous oxide, for one GAS
No less than ATLEAST
Nomad ROVER
Org. led by Peter Ueberroth USOC
Ostrich relative RHEA
Pa. plant in '79 news TMI
Perfect time to be a nag? BELABORDAY
Plains tribe OTOE
Put down scout excursions? BERATEHIKES
Quilters' gathering BEE
Ration out ALLOCATE
Remain calm KEEPCOOL
Reviewer from Chicago EBERT
Rhyming triplets TERCETS
River to the Bay of Biscay LOIRE
Round Table knights SIRS
Salinger girl ESME
Sampras et al. PETES
Scads RAFTS
Semi-soft cheese BLEU
Shake awake ROUST
Sharp ACUTE
Shea Stadium mascot MRMET
Skeptic's challenge IBET
Slothful OTIOSE
Sodium hydroxide, symbolically NAOH
Soft cheese BRIE
Something amazing STARTLER
Something to remember THEALAMO
Soy product TOFU
Sportscaster Collinsworth CRIS
Sticky stuff TAR
Submit tax forms electronically EFILE
Suffers from HAS
Sulu on ''Star Trek'' TAKEI
Summer month in Argentina ENERO
T. __ Price (investment firm) ROWE
TAs and RAs ASSTS
Teases RIBS
Theater section ORCHESTRA
Thin-sounding REEDY
Ticket DUCAT
Treater's comment ONME
Trouble a Broadway production? BESETTHESTAGE
True thing FACT
Turner of CNN TED
UN Day month OCT
Undermine ERODE
Variety of lettuce BIBB
Walk proudly STRUT
Washed up? BECAMECLEAN
Water cooler ICE
What MPH measures VEL
When dinosaurs roamed the Earth? BEFOREMAN
Where Allen stood while performing? BESIDEBURNS
Where eyes are found? BELOWBROWS
Wilson predecessor TAFT
Wisher's words IHOPE
Word ignored in indexing THE
Work too hard SLAVE
Worn at the edges FRAYED
Yemeni capital SANAA
Youngman specialty ONELINER
__ impasse ATAN
__ Studies (HS class) SOC