Universal - Jan 1 2002

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Clues Answers
''Aida'' or ''Tosca'' OPERA
''Are you a man --- mouse?'' ORA
''Driving Miss Daisy'' star TANDY
''Exodus'' role ARI
''My Life --- Dog'' (1985) ASA
A cut above? CREW
Alphonso D'Abruzzo, but you can call him Alan ALDA
And so forth ETCETERA
Applications USES
Arrived CAME
Bamako's setting MALI
Barbecue residue ASH
Bard's ''soon'' ANON
Betel nut palm ARECA
Bit for Bowser ORT
Bit of horse feed OAT
Blubbers SOBS
Blues singer Waters ETHEL
Caldwell title measure ACRE
Carnivorous worm LEECH
Caught sight of ESPIED
Celestial bear URSA
Certain European SWEDE
Charles' sister ANNE
Counsel ADVISE
Crucial layer of a farm operation? HEN
Daily sustenance MEALS
Dilutes THINS
Direction 90 degrees from norte ESTE
Engage in (as a campaign) WAGE
Excoriates SCATHES
Fast time LENT
Flood of baseball CURT
Florida citrus city OCALA
Forward the check REMIT
Giant who wore ''4'' OTT
Give a grade RATE
Give permission ALLOW
Glut SATE
Clues Answers
Goner's fate DOOM
Hemingway title word OLD
Hill counterpart DALE
Home of La Scala MILAN
Homegrown LOCAL
Indonesian island BALI
Irritate PEEVE
Item under consideration ISSUE
John-Boy's sister ERIN
Like leftover chips STALE
Like Mel Gibson in a 1979 film MAD
London Magazine essayist ELIA
Magical mischief-maker ELF
Make joyful ELATE
Move to and fro SWAY
Objector's beginning BUT
Obnoxious kiddie BRAT
Old Testament scribe EZRA
One making a choice SELECTOR
Oolong and souchong TEAS
Place for a stud LOBE
Poet's prerogative LICENSE
Says again and again REPEATS
Sebastian of ''Family Affair'' CABOT
See 9-Across FOOD
Stir up sediment ROIL
The Bee Gees and Peter, Paul and Mary, e.g. TRIOS
Thin layered rock SHALE
TRAM going in reverse? MART
Tyler novel, ''If Morning --- Comes'' EVER
Type of owl SCREECH
Use four-letter words SWEAR
Verbalist's gift GAB
Where Bowie bowed ALAMO
Where porpoises breathe ABOVETHESURFACE
Where the sun sets BELOWTHEHORIZON
Where to read BETWEENTHELINES
Yonder AFAR
You could see it on Marilyn's face MOLE