Universal - Mar 17 2009

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Clues Answers
''Love Story'' novelist Segal ERICH
Act like a sponge ABSORB
Allied org. NATO
Apothecary measure DOSE
Boot camp outing HIKE
British peer EARL
Call to share a secret? PSST
Carpenters' work? DUET
Causes an unearned run ERRS
Central line AXIS
Cheerful EXUBERANT
Chip's buddy DALE
Color for a wolf or whale GRAY
Columbus inst. OSU
Condescending type SNOOT
Daughter of Ming the Merciless AURA
Disagreeable obligation ONUS
Dispatch a dragon SLAY
Diva Moffo ANNA
Eager AGOG
Equal PEER
Former phone features DIALS
Fruit-juice alternative COLA
Guy who stood behind Michael Jackson TITO
Harangue TIRADE
Hard thing to kick HABIT
Heckelphone relatives OBOES
Horse nibbles OATS
Is able to, to Shakespeare CANST
It has notions ETUI
Jot IOTA
Kind of badge MERIT
Kind of pen? STATE
Kind of steward SHOP
Klink's prisoner HOGAN
Lamb or pork servings CHOPS
Maine college town ORONO
Meeting manager CHAIRPERSON
Moore's TV co-star ASNER
Clues Answers
Mysteriously spooky EERIE
Nemeses BANES
Not of the cloth LAIC
Of unusually great size EPIC
One of six on a cube SIDE
One-time Italian currency LIRA
Otherwise ELSE
Parking location, perhaps REAR
Part of a billiard table FELT
Part of a hurricane EYE
Persian Gulf native ARAB
Petty in ''Free Willy'' LORI
Poker rules TABLESTAKES
Prebirth period LABOR
Push, to blackjack players TIE
Rainy day necessities UMBRELLAS
Rat STOOLPIGEON
Ruler of the past TSAR
Sandwich pockets PITAS
Snares NABS
Sniggler's pursuit EEL
Speak like a senator ORATE
Statements of opposition NOES
Supplicant's request ALMS
Ten-toed sloth? COUCHPOTATO
Thick portions SLABS
Thought-provoking DEEP
Tight spots BINDS
Turn on START
U.S. airspace monitor FAA
Unsocial sort LONER
Upper hand EDGE
Utter indistinctly SLUR
Watering hole BAR
Wiped out TIRED
Word of dismissal SCRAM
Word with ''cough'' or ''corn'' SYRUP
Zipper alternatives SNAPS
___ incognita TERRA