USA Today - Oct 1 2003

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Clues Answers
"El Capitan" composer SOUSA
"Get my drift?" SEE
Audit expert CPA
Authentic REAL
Aware of ONTO
Bay window ORIEL
Bed with bars CRIB
Belgian Congo renamed ZAIRE
Blubber FLAB
Bottomless pit ABYSS
Bring legal action SUE
Concrete strip SLAB
Cordage fiber ISTLE
Country in the Fertile Crescent IRAQ
Cyclopean LARGE
Desert anomaly OASIS
Diet successfully SLIM
Diner handout MENU
Disconcert FAZE
Dr. Frankenstein's helper IGOR
Dress in finery ARRAY
Eased off EBBED
Easy victory ROMP
Everly Brothers performance DUET
Express contempt HOOT
Fashion silhouette ALINE
Fence's supplier THIEF
Fits partners STARTS
Floor models, maybe DEMOS
Garnet's hue RED
Gem mined in Australia OPAL
Goggle STARE
Golf ball depression DIMPLE
Gridiron officials REFS
Guiding ethic ETHOS
Hammer part PEEN
Have status RATE
Held up? BUOYED
Helen's abductor PARIS
Clues Answers
Hoofed it TROD
Humdinger LULU
Imprint, as in the memory ETCH
Improve text EMEND
It begs for an answer BURNINGQUESTION
Kickoff preface FLIP
Knock one's socks off STUN
Leviathan ORCA
Macho type HEMAN
Made public AIRED
Medicinal plant ALOE
O'Hara homestead TARA
One of a bumbling trio MOE
Outline TRACE
Passes with panache ACES
Pitch the ninth inning, maybe CLOSE
Powerful ray MANTA
Predecessor of Roger and Pierce SEAN
Pueblo dweller HOPI
Purple plum DAMSON
Rigel or Deneb STAR
Rob Roy, for example SCOT
Sea urchin's protection SPINES
Sixties apparel MINI
Smithereens BITS
Stretch of the imagination FARFETCHEDSTORY
The Black Stallion is one ARAB
Threatening pressure DURESS
Tickle pink ELATE
Tree of life locale EDEN
Trident feature TINE
Truth in a nutshell FACTOFTHEMATTER
Up to now SOFAR
Verbal waves HIS
Where shahs once ruled IRAN
Whittle down PARE
Willy Wonka's creator DAHL
Winter Olympics event LUGE
___ out (put on display) TROT