Premier Sunday - King Feature Syndicate - Oct 19 2008

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Clues Answers
'-- you!' (challenger's cry) IDARE
'... for -- care!' ALLI
'American Beauty director Sam' MENDES
'Be that as -- ...' ITMAY
'Dies --' (hymn) IRAE
'It's clear to me now' ISEE
'No man -- island' ISAN
-- frenzy MEDIA
-- help (useless) OFNO
-- Lumpur, Malaysia KUALA
-- Solo HAN
A carpenter may drive it SCREW
Actor Edward James -- OLMOS
Actor Willie AAMES
Actress Jackson GLENDA
Admit, as defeat CONCEDE
American diarist Anais NIN
Applies incorrectly MISUSES
Argues (for) PLEADS
Back road ALLEY
Bank acct. buildup INT
Besides TOO
Big smiles GRINS
Blood-typing letters ABO
BLT topper MAYO
Boob tube commercials TVADS
Bottom point NADIR
Bringer of bad luck HOODOO
British biscuits SCONES
British noble's jurisdiction EARLDOM
Bronte heroine Jane EYRE
By means of VIA
Cali coin PESO
Cartoon bear YOGI
Certain pear BOSC
Change into charged particles IONIZE
Clock sound TICK
Cloistered sister NUN
Cook by immersing in fat DEEPFRY
Crimson and scarlet REDS
Damsels MAIDS
Dead Sea discovery SCROLL
Decide (to) OPT
Deform a black gem? MISSHAPEONYX
Digs for pigs STY
Dish up SERVE
Does' dears STAGS
Doolittle of 'My Fair Lady' ELIZA
Dry as dust ARID
Editorialize OPINE
Egg-shaped wind instrument OCARINA
Engine in an Accent or a Sonata? HYUNDAISYSTEM
Engineering detail SPEC
Entryway DOOR
Fashion MODE
Female chicken HEN
Finisher ENDER
Fittingly DULY
Flaky rock MICA
Folklorist Alan LOMAX
For old times' -- SAKE
Former Canadian prime minister Lester PEARSON
Forum robes TOGAS
Frogs' cousins TOADS
Furiousness IRE
Get even for AVENGE
Handgun, in old slang ROSCOE
Ho Chi Minh City, once SAIGON
Hopi's wooden doll KACHINA
Humble hut HOVEL
Clues Answers
Immersed RAPT
It fits over a light bulb LAMPSHADE
Joie de vivre ELAN
Jr.'s son, perhaps III
Keats' '-- a Grecian Urn' ODEON
Lepton site ATOM
Letters after upsilons PHIS
Like a party pooper NOFUN
Like guinea pigs TAILLESS
Litigant SUER
Long walk HIKE
Made over REDONE
Mai -- (cocktail) TAI
Major tournaments for clergymen? VICARNATIONALS
Mariner scolding? SAILORCHIDING
Marshland FEN
Mule's mom MARE
Nav. officer ENS
Nero's 107 CVII
New York waterway ERIECANAL
Not home OUT
Not true FALSE
Now-retired fast jets SSTS
Often-spicy cuisine THAIFOOD
Old serf HELOT
One hurling THROWER
Ortiz of 'Ugly Betty' ANA
Owner of Maybelline LOREAL
Pad with sticky strips attached? VELCROCUSHION
Passion ARDENCY
Pepsi rival RCCOLA
Person speaking VOICER
Pewter, e.g. ALLOY
Pooh-poohed SNEEREDAT
Poor mark DEE
Prioritized, in the ER TRIAGED
Religious factions SECTS
Rendezvous DATE
Rent- -- ACAR
Sainted Italian theologian ANSELM
Salvador the surrealist DALI
Search for SEEK
See 104-Down RYAN
Singer Day DORIS
Slums, e.g. EYESORES
Some permanent markers SHARPIES
Spain's El -- CID
Speaks SAYS
Spicy dish missing an ingredient? CHILILACKING
Spiral motions GYRES
Stares at OGLES
Strauss of jeans fame LEVI
Sucker on a stick, for short LOLLY
Swahili cosmetic? BANTULIPSTICK
Taken for -- (scammed) ARIDE
Talks CONVERSES
Test for fit TRYON
They're hidden in this puzzle's seven longest answers NAMESOFFLOWERS
Third bk. of the Bible LEV
Turndowns NOS
Untidy sort SLOB
Use the pool SWIM
Venerate ADORE
Violinist Elman MISCHA
Vise CLAMP
With 60-Across, she played Granny on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' IRENE
Wriggly fish EEL
Writer Rand AYN
Writer Wiesel ELIE
Yule mo. DEC