Newsday.com - Aug 3 2011

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Clues Answers
''Beetle Bailey'' dog OTTO
''Exodus'' novelist URIS
''Silas Marner'' author ELIOT
''Silence of the Lambs'' director DEMME
'50s music albums: Abbr. LPS
10 C-notes THOU
AOL competitor YAHOO
Army nickname SARGE
Be behind, with 30 minutes of football left TRAILATTHEHALF
Beautiful, in Bologna BELLA
Business card abbr. TEL
Canine pest FLEA
Capital of Jordan AMMAN
Chew the fat GAB
Child's game FOLLOWTHELEADER
Close by, poetically NIGH
Den furniture SOFA
Detect with a sniff SMELL
Eclipse adjective LUNAR
El __, TX PASO
Elevs. HTS
Ferret's feet PAWS
First-class, informally PRIMO
Forces IMPELS
Frat letter SIGMA
Grove component TREE
Hard to find RARE
Harvested REAPED
Hawaiian island OAHU
Hertz competitor AVIS
Hot tubs SPAS
In a way SOTOSPEAK
In person LIVE
Language suffix ESE
Lettuce purchase HEAD
Marigold's origin SEED
Minimal uncertainty SHADOWOFADOUBT
Miscellaneous category OTHERS
Clues Answers
Mortgages, for example LIENS
Most messy SLOPPIEST
Murphy once of ''SNL'' EDDIE
Music-tour worker ROADIE
News sources MEDIA
One on a throne KING
Online auctioneer EBAY
Outside the baselines FOUL
Overused STALE
Part of a bike SEAT
Part of BA ARTS
Poetic works ODES
Really like GOFOR
Really like ADORE
Sandwich side dish SLAW
Savanna exploration SAFARI
Seal up SHUT
Series of skits REVUE
Shaquille of basketball ONEAL
Sharp river bend OXBOW
Singing syllables LALA
Soprano solo ARIA
Spoken ORAL
Sported WORE
Swearing-in OATH
Synthetic fiber ORLON
Towers over DWARFS
Type of Yellow Pages, for short BTOB
Up in the sky ALOFT
Very, in Versailles TRES
Veto NIX
Wander ROVE
Weeps loudly SOBS
Went away LEFT
Western capital SALEM
Woodworking machine LATHE
Yuletide verse beginning TWAS
__ now (so far) ASOF