Newsday.com - Feb 20 2010

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Clues Answers
$250 TV purchase ANI
''Les'', in Livorno GLI
''The Boy Orator of the Platte'' BRYAN
''The October Man'' novelist AMBLER
''When We __'' (Janet Jackson tune) OOOO
'70s Peace Prize decliner THO
-ess relative ITA
1980 Summer Olympics mascot BEARCUB
Admit OWN
Basement layout, at times TRAINSET
Become less green MATURATE
Big name in canine care ORALB
Bill Bryson and Buffalo Bill IOWANS
Blue shade COBALT
Brand name from the Russian for ''capital'' STOLI
Cell-phone stat BARS
Check SCAN
Checked out, in a way BORROWED
Chicken __ POX
Chilling comment KEEPYOURSHIRTON
Clipped TERSE
Common quintet AEIOU
Dahlia, for one TUBER
Delegate DEPUTE
Euro predecessor ECU
Even-money casino bet NOIR
Extreme scarcity FAMINE
First European to reach the Pacific BALBOA
Five cu. ft. of sugar BBL
Five-star RITZY
Fla-Vor-Ice competitor OTTERPOP
Follower of ''yes'' or ''no'' SIRREE
Former frequent flier TWA
Frost form SONNET
Gain REALIZE
Clues Answers
Group founded by Bill W.'s wife ALANON
Headlock accompanier, often NOOGIE
Help a neighbor, perhaps CATSIT
HMO business INS
Hold together BOND
Ignored alarm bells SLEPTIN
Instrument near a drum OTOSCOPE
Iroquois Confederacy member ONEIDA
Its flag has a khanjar dagger OMAN
Kissinger in ''Nixon'' SORVINO
Least cool NERDIEST
Like some winds REEDY
Lodges ROOMS
Make a formal record of ENTER
Member of the amaranth family BEET
Popular surfers' hangout FACEBOOK
Scrolled reading material EZINES
Seat of County Clare ENNIS
Separate ALACARTE
Shiba __ (Japanese dog) INU
Ski-patrol transporter TOBOGGAN
Slicker WILIER
Sort (through) RIFLE
Space on a liner CABIN
Spills LETSSLIP
Steak source ALBACORE
Strain TAX
Subject of the 2009 documentary ''You Don't Know Jack'' SOO
Subject to local rules UNIONIZE
Switch sides ONS
Talk-radio format OPENLINE
The father on TV's ''Life With Father'' LEONAMES
Undercover agent? BULLETPROOFVEST
Went up ROSE
Wrench TWIST