Newsday.com - Feb 25 2009

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Clues Answers
''A __ formality!'' MERE
''I Love Lucy'' landlord MERTZ
''Not that!'' OHNO
A question of method HOW
Act like APE
Atomizers SPRAYS
Baseball great Ryan NOLAN
Be a squealer RAT
Birth-related NATAL
Brainstormer's cry AHA
Brazilian dance SAMBA
Butter knife, e.g. SPREADER
Cappuccino topper FROTH
Cardinal point WEST
Catch some Zs NAP
Clothe oneself in DON
Commotion ADO
Currier's partner IVES
Deli meat SALAMI
Dieter's stalk CELERY
Director Spike LEE
Edgar Bergen dummy SNERD
Evil one SATAN
Eyeball-bending drawings OPART
Factory PLANT
Filled pancake BLINTZ
Flight-board abbr. ETD
Georgetown athlete HOYA
Gymnast Korbut OLGA
Having no idea DRAWINGABLANK
Hawaiian food fish MAHIMAHI
Helen of Troy's mother LEDA
In pieces APART
Jitters NERVES
Like a skinflint TIGHT
Like O. Henry stories IRONIC
Mad Hatter's drink TEA
Mediator's skill TACT
Clues Answers
Midmonth day IDES
National uncle SAM
Ocean bottom BED
One voting ''nay'' CON
Oversight LAPSE
Pepper grinder MILL
Place to moor COVE
Play a big part STAR
Power source ENGINE
Practiced, as a trade PLIED
Research room LAB
Roaster's need OVEN
Salt's assent AYE
Scarlett of fiction OHARA
Scorpion weapon VENOM
Shakespearean sprite ARIEL
Short-order order, for short BLT
Showing skepticism, maybe ROLLINGONESEYES
Slangy suffix OLA
Some corp. bigwigs VPS
Sonata movement RONDO
Sports collectibles CARDS
Stag, at a party ALONE
Steer clear of AVOID
Stole material MINK
Suffix for duck LING
Tall-tale teller's activity SPINNINGAYARN
Tarot-deck user SEER
TiVo ancestor VCR
Took a tram, say RODE
Toyota rival HONDA
Trumpet feature VALVE
Tubular pasta PENNE
Turkey part WATTLE
Upper hand EDGE
Way to stand ERECT
Worry FRET
__ the wiser NONE