Universal - Dec 10 2001

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Clues Answers
"A neat ship is a sweet ship," e.g. ADAGE
"All in favor" word AYE
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" sight UFO
"Come here often?" e.g. LINE
"Crazy" bird LOON
"Darn tootin'" YEP
"Gulliver's Travels" brute YAHOO
"If looks could kill" type of stare ICY
"Peter Pan" dog NANA
"Sanford and Son" neighborhood WATTS
"What do you say?" response PLEASE
''Bus Stop'' creator INGE
''Moving right ___ ...'' ALONG
''Shane'' star LADD
A cappella singer's need PITCHPIPE
A favorite saying CATCHWORD
A king of Judah AMON
A single time ONCE
A tide type NEAP
Abbr. on a key ALT
Acts alone SOLOS
Aerialist's safeguard NET
Aesop's opus FABLE
Al Capp's hyena LENA
Analyzed a sentence PARSED
Ann and May CAPES
Answering machine button ERASE
Antiquated calculator SLIDERULE
Arabian, e.g. STEED
Arbitrator THIRDPARTY
As is fitting APTLY
Asocial type LONER
Augury OMEN
Await action PEND
Bar opening ISO
Baseball blunder ERROR
Basketball power under John Wooden UCLA
Bath type TURKISH
Battery part ANODE
Beg a favor ASK
Big name in copiers XEROX
Big reference volume TOME
Big round do AFRO
Bistro CAFE
Bit of bickering TIFF
Bizarre OUTRE
Black ___ spider WIDOW
Body lotion ingredient ALOE
Botanic structure OVULE
Bottle-nosed creature DOLPHIN
Breaks new ground, in a way HOES
Bricklayers MASONS
Brief life story? BIO
British moola QUIDS
Building extensions ELLS
Bulldogs' school YALE
Bully's prey, traditionally NERD
Calculating snake? ADDER
California-based team LAKERS
Calm or tranquil SERENE
Calyx part SEPAL
Carvey who was the Church Lady DANA
Catches in the act NABS
Cause to convulse with laughter SLAY
Ceremony RITE
Certain size LARGE
Chicago eleven BEARS
Cigarette ingredient TAR
City of the Italian Riviera GENOA
Cognizant AWARE
Commit to memory LEARN
Commotions of Shakespearean proportions? ADOS
Completed OVER
Compound that's an anagram of "steer" ESTER
Concept IDEA
Confuse ADDLE
Congregation affirmation AMEN
Congress, at times TAXERS
Contract a common malady CATCHCOLD
Convert (with ''over'') WIN
Cooks briefly, as vegetables PARBOILS
Coop sound PEEP
Cornered ATBAY
Corset part STAY
Country in central Africa RWANDA
Court-appointed psychiatrist's declaration SANE
Cut down HEW
D.C. landmark (with "The") SMITHSONIAN
D.C. VIP SEN
Dealer's directive ANTEUP
Declare frankly AVOW
Dentist's exam ORAL
Description of surface quality TEXTURAL
Despise deeply ABHOR
Did some picking OPTED
Dinner's often on him SLOB
Dishwasher cycle RINSE
Dismounted ALIT
Disposable THROWAWAY
Do Circe's job TEMPT
Doctor in the service MEDIC
Double agents SPIES
Doughboy's ally POILU
Duck sound QUACK
During AMID
Elongated creature EEL
Empowered ENDUED
End-of-the-year mo. DEC
Enlightenment EDIFICATION
Essence HEART
Euripides tragedy MEDEA
Exam for would-be atty. LSAT
Extremists RADICALS
Fair JUST
Farms HOMESTEADS
Fashioned into a sphere ORBED
Feminine pronoun HER
Feverish chill AGUE
Fifties auto feature FINS
File RASP
Fillet's lack BONE
First lady, no kidding EVE
Fish bait CHUM
Flutter FLIT
Football Hall of Fame locale OHIO
Game-show group PANEL
Gauguin's island TAHITI
Genetic template DNA
Geologic time period EPOCH
Get some shuteye HITTHEHAY
Get up ARISE
Glass square PANE
Globetrotter's catchphrase, perhaps NOPLACELIKEHOME
Go dim FADE
Gondola, e.g. BOAT
Good name for a tax advisor IRA
Gridiron specialist PUNTER
Happy, rhythmic tune LILT
Hearing shower CSPAN
Heart readout, for short EKG
Hippodrome ARENA
Hit the mall SHOP
Hold spellbound RAVISH
Homer king until '98 MARIS
Identical or very similar ALIKE
Immeasurable chasm ABYSS
Impoverishment NEED
In days of ___ YORE
Influx INRUSH
Instrument for a Marx Brother HARP
Isle of Wight settlers JUTES
It has solar heating PLANET
It may be a cake or bar SOAP
It may be unmitigated GALL
It may surround a charged particle ELECTRICALFIELD
Clues Answers
Jack of Westerns ELAM
Jackson or James JESSE
Japanese immigrant ISSEI
Junkyard dog CUR
Kind of poker DRAW
King Olaf, for one SWEDE
Kudu's cousin ELAND
Latvian capital RIGA
Leb.'s neighbor SYR
Lengthy narratives SAGAS
Lift handle? OTIS
Light brown ECRU
Like poltergeists NOISY
Like some proportions EPIC
Like Telly and Yul BALD
Liqueur flavorer ANISE
List-curtailing letters ETC
Literary genre DRAMA
Liturgical headdress MITER
Long-handled farm tool PITCHFORK
Long-term investment IRA
Lopez or Grey JENNIFER
Map table LEGEND
Margaret of ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' MEAD
Mate of a real swinger JANE
Mediocre grades CEES
More congenial NICER
More crude RAWER
More vulgar CRASSER
Mournful poem ELEGY
Movie mutt ASTA
Name for the wind, in song MARIA
Need renewal LAPSE
New Testament book JUDE
No longer due PAID
Noise from the farm OINK
Noteworthy period of history EPOCH
On, as the train ABOARD
Open to dispute DENIABLE
Openly resisted DEFIED
Org. founded on Lincoln's birthday NAACP
Part of a driver's license PHOTO
Part of stage scenery SETPIECE
Partner of improved NEW
Patron saint of sailors ELMO
Perforate thoroughly RIDDLE
Pitcher EWER
Pitchfork part PRONG
Place avoided by Rushdie IRAN
Plot size, perhaps ACRE
Plumbing woe DRIP
Poetic "eternally" ALWAY
Porgy's beloved BESS
Prentiss or Poundstone PAULA
Preserve, as meat CURE
Priestly vestment ALB
Procrastinator's opposite DOER
Provide commentary NARRATE
Provides money for ENDOWS
Put on a show STAGE
Puts up ERECTS
Radar-screen image BLIP
Rapid escapes LAMS
Rectangular paver SETT
Remove the lid UNCAP
Reptile of ancient Egypt ASP
Requisites NEEDS
Rescinder REPEALER
Responded to a summons CAME
Ross of Motown DIANA
Rossini song ARIA
Rub out ERASE
Rub out ERASE
Sake base RICE
Salinger girl ESME
Salinger novel (with ''The'') CATCHERINTHERYE
Saudi gulf ADEN
Says, in teenspeak GOES
Scorpio stone OPAL
Scratch out, as a living EKE
Seethes BOILS
Sergeant's command UNIT
Shares CUTS
Shoe bottoms SOLES
Shower off RINSE
Shows off with a spatula FLIPS
Shuttle cargoes PAYLOADS
Snake's comment SSS
Soccer great PELE
Some bent pipes ELLS
Some breads RYES
Some religious compounds ASHRAMS
Some restaurant waiting areas BARS
Spasm TIC
Speaker systems, for short PAS
Spring offering WATER
Stallion's mate MARE
Statistical information DATA
Stick your neck out CRANE
Stomach enzyme PEPSIN
Suffix with lion ESS
Support for the church TITHE
Swallowed DRANK
Sweeties HONEYS
Swiss skyline feature ALP
Take one's time DALLY
Talk nonstop YAP
Tarzan portrayer Ron ELY
The Jewel of the East BALI
The way things are going TREND
They're big in Australia EMUS
They're used to fashion models KITS
Three strikes and you're out, e.g. RULE
Tide type NEAP
Time in office TERM
Tinker or Evers or Chance CUB
Tinseltown org. SAG
Top of the line FIRSTCLASS
Track shape OVAL
Tranquilizers' opposite UPPERS
Transport dating from the Stone Age SLED
Triangular Greek letters DELTAS
Twaddle SLIPSLOP
Two-color cookie OREO
Type of car SEDAN
Type of gas METHANE
Unmanned aircraft DRONE
Used SECONDHAND
Veracious TRUE
Verdi product AIDA
Vermilion RED
Vicinity AREA
Victorian, for one ERA
Vied for a position RAN
Volcano in Italy ETNA
Walkman plug-in EARPHONE
Waterproof again RESEAL
Wedding setting CHAPEL
When proper, their leaders are capital! NOUNS
Where dos get done SALON
Winter hrs. in Buffalo EST
Wolflike carrion eater HYENA
Won the World Series in four games, e.g. SWEPT
Word after bump or jump INTO
Word after who, what or where ELSE
Word with deck or measure TAPE
Word with show or box ICE
Workplace honcho BOSS
Workplace-protection org. OSHA
World-weary feeling ENNUI
Wound up ENDED
Writing implement BALLPOINT
Yearn ACHE
___ rally (school event) PEP
___-friendly USER