USA Today - Sep 19 2008

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Clues Answers
''Animal House'' animal OTTER
''Being,'' to Brutus ESSE
''You'' and ''ewe'' counterpart YEW
A big fan of INTO
Airline safety official SKYMARSHAL
Alec's position in the Baldwin family ELDEST
Baba ghanouj ingredient GARLIC
Ballet-inspired French impressionist DEGAS
Bibliographic abbr. ETAL
Brace for trouble GIRD
Calligrapher's supplies INKS
Card combinations, in gin MELDS
Carpenter's groove DADO
Chinese philosophical concept TAO
Clear choice in the kitchen? SARAN
Concrete and granite forms SLABS
Courtroom directive RISE
Development buildings HOMES
Dogfaces GIS
Draft pick ALE
Dried or darkened, as by heat ADUST
Econ. indicator GNP
Eoarchean and Neoarchean are two ERAS
Eyelid swelling STYE
First name of 1-Across EDGAR
For those in trouble, it could be hot SEAT
Foxlike cat breed SOMALI
Garlicky mayonnaise AIOLI
Hot stuff? LOOT
Hymn of thanksgiving PAEAN
Intimations HINTS
Japanese American NISEI
Joint protection? SHIV
Killed, as a bill VETOED
Kuwaiti leader EMIR
Like a child-friendly grape SEEDLESS
Lillian of ''The Night of the Hunter'' GISH
Lilo's pet STITCH
Logging opponent TREEHUGGER
Clues Answers
Mountain range separating two continents URAL
Moviedom's Mineo SAL
Nearly 11,000-foot mount in Europe ETNA
Oval Office assistant AIDE
Pigpen of ''Peanuts,'' for one DIRTMAGNET
Place to hang one's hat ABODE
Protein-building acid AMINO
Queenly or princely REGAL
Reaping tool SCYTHE
Result of ironing CREASE
Scrutinize PERUSE
Send a thrill through ELATE
Snow on an album cover HANK
Spanish lady DONA
Spirits sometimes do this SAG
Stays home for dinner EATSIN
Stemming from the common people GRASSROOTS
Subject to reduction ABATABLE
Suffering a loss BEREFT
Take in tentatively SIP
Te Kanawa solo ARIA
The ''O'' in the Dallas Cowboys' T.O. OWENS
The Taj Mahal's city AGRA
They're used to make a stand FEET
This might follow a bad pun GROAN
Tough row to hoe ORDEAL
Turkish general AGA
Unpleasant thing to invoke IRE
Warning of old ALARUM
Washed out? ASEA
White poker chips, often ANTES
White-tailed eagle ERNE
Word that's dramatically sighed ALAS
Word with ''big'' or ''good'' IDEA
Wowed exclamations OOHS
You're safe standing on this BASE
Zip NIL
___ generis (unique) SUI
___ out (just manage) EKE