USA Today - Oct 8 2008

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Clues Answers
$25 per hour, e.g. RATE
''Don't remind me'' IKNOW
''___ I can help it!'' NOTIF
''___, With Love'' TOSIR
Balmoral, e.g. CASTLE
Brainstorm IDEA
Brief time for confession SHORTSHRIFT
Bump NODULE
Buttonlike? CUTE
Calculus calculations AREAS
Christie's Poirot HERCULE
Contemptuous look SNEER
Cote call BAA
Craft often depicted landing on three legs UFO
Defunct defense org. SEATO
Egyptian cross ANKH
Extended across, as a bridge SPANNED
Fencing sword EPEE
First full mo. of fall OCT
Flourishes PROSPERS
Hydrocarbon suffixes ENES
Initial impression FIRSTTHOUGHT
Ireland's Sinn ___ FEIN
It may lead to a confession THIRDDEGREE
Jumper cable connection ANODE
Leisure hours FREETIME
Lord or his subject LIEGE
Louvre Pyramid architect IMPEI
Make a pass at HITON
Mauna ___ (Hawaii's highest point) KEA
Modern music devices IPODS
Nagano Olympic cauldron lighter ITO
Needing to cool down SORE
Neth. neighbor GER
No great shake? TREMOR
Notorious London prison NEWGATE
Ointment label words USEON
Clues Answers
One who works on the roof? SNIPER
Playwright's prize OBIE
Rental for a round CART
Researcher's quest GRANT
Riding a bike, e.g., for most SECONDNATURE
Rustic digs CABIN
School tie PTA
Seasoned salt TAR
Severely criticizes RIPS
Show with song ''Good Morning Starshine'' HAIR
Singer Lopez TRINI
Some Degas works NUDES
Somewhere over the rainbow AFAR
Sooner than, in poetry ERE
Soyuz rocket letters CCCP
Sporadically INSPURTS
Sports venues ARENAS
Surprising defeats UPSETS
Take on HIRE
Their dishes may be fancy CHEFS
They reported on Sputnik TASS
Threshing or thrashing FLAILING
Trowel wielder MASON
Twist around an axis SLUE
Two-seater? MAITRED
Two-time batting champ Lefty ODOUL
U.S. station name retired in 1972 ESSO
Vegetarians don't chew it, they eschew it MEAT
Venetian bigwig, once DOGE
Very large collection agcy. IRS
Was at fault ERRED
Watch the bar or the goal TEND
Wispy clouds CIRRI
Words with ''a gun''or ''Flubber'' SONOF
Zaire's Mobuto Sese ____ SEKO
Zaragoza's river EBRO
Zeus's wife and sister HERA