USA Today - Sep 17 2008

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
''Au'' cousin ALA
''Do ___ others . . .'' UNTO
''Microcosm'' subject ECOLI
''O'' example in a children's book OBOE
''The Fatal Gift'' author Waugh ALEC
21st-century Russian leader PUTIN
45-degree compass point NORTHEAST
Achilles' mom THETIS
Advanced gradually EDGED
African republic KENYA
At pique's peak IRATE
Bar from the market OLEO
Barbecuing need SAUCE
Bass, for one CLEF
Begin to awaken STIR
Big Bird's ride? SESAMESTREETCAR
Big kahuna BOSS
Big name in motion ISAAC
Big pictures? EPICS
Boxer's restraint LEASH
Breathy sound SIGH
Cake finisher ICING
Childhood place HOMETOWN
Community spirit ETHOS
Confess ADMIT
Consumer USER
Desertlike SERE
Drive off REPEL
Emulated a canary SANG
End of the line? RAILHEAD
Eye sore STYE
Favourite uncles? BOBS
Fizzy beverage COLA
Fouled-off pitch, perhaps STRIKE
Fretted instrument LUTE
George Eliot's ''Felix ___, the Radical'' HOLT
Give the boot OUST
Grinder MOLAR
Clues Answers
Group, as data SORT
Haloes AURAE
Hawkeye State IOWA
It gets cracked on purpose NUT
It's along the bus route of ''Canada's Walk of Fame''? MARTINSHORTSTOP
Kentucky jumper? BLUEGRASSHOPPER
Lab cultures AGARS
Like the end of the pool with the diving boards DEEPER
Like you or me HUMAN
Martini drinker of note BOND
Mind OBEY
Mixing site BOWL
Moon of Neptune NEREID
Neural network RETE
Odds-and-ends abbreviation MISC
Oft-blurred images? UFOS
Old enough to vote OFAGE
On the same side as WITH
Opposite of absorb EGEST
Oscar, for one STATUETTE
Pate DOME
Pluto ___ (Eddie Murphy character) NASH
Poet Thomas DYLAN
Porcelain pitcher EWER
Proofreader's mark STET
Propelled a canoe OARED
Rapids transit? RAFT
Scrabble unit TILE
South-of-the-border river? RIO
Sport that's not for left-handers POLO
Stout ingredient MALT
The middle ''N'' of CNN NEWS
Toss the bull LIE
Weed assailant HOER
Words with ''date'' and ''record'' SETA
Wrestling milieu MUD
Zero, on some scorecards NIL
___ ex machina DEUS