Universal - Sep 19 2008

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Clues Answers
''A Nightmare on ___ Street'' ELM
''All Over the World'' band ELO
''CHiPs'' star Estrada ERIK
''Now!'' ATONCE
.300 is a good one, briefly AVG
100-meter runners, e.g. DASHERS
Aborigine's weapon SPEAR
Abridge EDIT
Affectionate murmur COO
Ancient Roman senate house CURIA
Andean tuber OCA
Animal with a black-tipped tail STOAT
Aquatic shocker EEL
AT&T acquisition of 1991 NCR
Avian trumpeter SWAN
Backwoods hwy. RTE
Balm ingredient ALOE
Big ray MANTA
Blue DEJECTED
Bottom deck ORLOP
Box with a view LOGE
Burmese comment MEOW
Cadence BEAT
Calmed ALLAYED
Capital of Romania LEU
Certain racetrack SPEEDWAY
Cheery decade? GAYNINETIES
Circumference RIM
City in the Ruhr valley ESSEN
Clip, as wool SHEAR
Command to Fido STAY
Craggy ridge ARETE
Cut off from the mainland ISLED
Dermatological diagnosis, perhaps HIVES
Diamond and others LILS
Discovery made by a spot check? MEASLES
Do a gland's job SECRETE
Doesn't spoil, as food KEEPS
Drained of energy SPENT
Clues Answers
Ends of fixed fights DIVES
Exemplar of ease ABC
Exist en masse ARE
Eye-stinging ACRID
Flag for Captain Kidd JOLLYROGER
Forest south of the tundra TAIGA
Form into an arch or curve EMBOW
Gilpin of ''Frasier'' PERI
Hemingway novel setting SEA
King rival EVERT
Leak through the cracks SEEP
Lehar operetta (with ''The'') MERRYWIDOW
Like one end of a pool DEEP
Many a quarter back? EAGLE
Medical grp. HMO
Members of the Whiffenpoofs ELIS
Movie plantation TARA
Nonspeaking ''CSI'' roles CORPSES
One may be locked in a boat OAR
One partner? ONLY
Primordial matter of the universe YLEM
Pudding flavor TAPIOCA
Reach a consensus AGREE
Red-hot types? MAMAS
Roy Rogers' theme song HAPPYTRAILS
Some hourlong shows DRAMAS
Sounds of hair trimming SNIPS
Spirited horse STEED
State capital before Lincoln OMAHA
Supporting shouts YEAS
They keep diamonds dry TARPS
Toy holder CHEST
Tropical wading bird IBIS
Type size PICA
Urban pollutant SMOG
V-shaped cut NOTCH
Where to find a hero DELI
Whiz-bang AONE
You can't stand having it LAP