USA Today - Oct 22 2003

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Clues Answers
"Indubitably" YES
"Measure twice, cut once," e.g. ADAGE
"Wanted" poster option DEAD
"___ bitten, twice shy" ONCE
'' . . . by bread ___'' ALONE
''All in the Family'' spin-off MAUDE
''Filthy'' money LUCRE
''John Brown's Body'' poet BENET
''Norma ___'' RAE
''Pygmalion'' author's monogram GBS
''The Addams Family'' character LURCH
1,728 TWELVEGROSS
220 ELEVENSCORE
36 THREEDOZEN
4,047 square meters ACRE
500 HALFAGRAND
Abbr. on a train schedule ARR
Aerialist's insurance NET
Also known as ALIAS
American employee PILOT
Annoys continually MOLESTS
Auctioneer's quest BID
Author Haley ALEX
Barley beard AWN
Be apprehensive DREAD
Be the victim of a sting? SMART
Became less hirsute SHAVED
Big-time talker OPRAH
Blimp supply HELIUM
Bugs the bootlegger MORAN
Burn slightly SINGE
Cairo debut of 1871 AIDA
Campus building DORM
Chaotic area MADHOUSE
Charges ALLEGES
Civvies MUFTI
Classic parlor game TWENTYQUESTIONS
Cliff dwelling AERIE
Cuzco native, once INCA
Dark red PUCE
Deck crew petty officer BOSN
Detroit disaster EDSEL
Director of "A Fistful of Dollars" LEONE
Doesn't check or fold OPENS
Double-reed player OBOIST
Driving aids TEES
Drover's charge HERD
Drunkard SOT
Exercise authority over GOVERN
Expert dealmaker CLOSER
Extend across SPAN
F.D.R.'s successor HST
Fan mag subjects IDOLS
Favors PREFERS
Fill fully SATE
First name in spying MATA
Four quarters YEAR
Fourposter, e.g. BED
Glance over SCAN
Goes it alone SOLOS
Gratis FREE
Green, creepy thing VINE
Grimm heroine GRETEL
He slew the Minotaur THESEUS
I, as in Ithaca? IOTA
Ink producer SQUID
Insider's lingo ARGOT
It can generate a lot of interest LOAN
It has its pluses and minuses MATH
It might be moving TARGET
It's kept by a keeper INN
It's overhead RENT
It's picked up by radar, briefly MPH
It's tall when exaggerated TALE
It's within your range OVEN
Itinerary part VIA
Kennel order SIT
Kitchen counter? TIMER
Clues Answers
Lament a loss MOURN
Lends a hand to AIDS
Leonhard the mathematician EULER
Like bachelor parties STAG
Like most sportscasts LIVE
Long in the tooth AGED
Lowercased TV series THIRTYSOMETHING
Mark's successor EURO
Mascara sites CILIA
Mason's container HOD
Menu term ALA
Merited EARNED
Mete DOLE
Middle of March IDES
Minuscule pest GNAT
Missile's trajectory ARC
Musical wrap-up CODA
Nimble-digited ADROIT
Not coarse FINE
Not mono STEREO
Not on the rocks NEAT
Nutritive mineral IRON
Paper ballot shred CHAD
Parisian papa PERE
Pasta type ORZO
Penguin perch FLOE
Pepper and No DRS
Place limits on RESTRAIN
Plane reservations SEATS
Pose a query ASK
Prognosticators SEERS
Pulled a forty-five DREW
Put skin on a sausage ENCASE
RBI, e.g. STAT
Return the favor REPAY
Rich brown pigments SEPIAS
Sans script ADLIB
Search for H2O DOWSE
Sectional, say SOFA
Senate cover-up, once TOGA
Serve with a summons CITE
Shout heard on Manhattan's streets TAXI
Slough SHED
Small arachnid MITE
Small part CAMEO
Smells to high heaven REEKS
Some famous dos and don'ts TENCOMMANDMENTS
Sparse THIN
Spot of tea? STAIN
Stair part TREAD
Starting point for a flight test? NEST
State as fact AVER
Stem's opposite STERN
Strasbourg location ALSACE
Take care of yourself FEND
Tapes for producers DEMOS
Taskmaster BOSS
Tenor neighbor ALTO
Think tank output IDEA
Trial partner ERROR
Twinge PANG
Type of book or booth PHONE
Type of table END
Undo a dele STET
Union headquarters? ALTAR
Unspecified amount SOME
Usual gender of inanimate objects NEUTER
Vein bonanza LODE
Virtually ALMOST
Wide-spouted pitcher EWER
Windblown deposit LOESS
Windfall BOON
Wish things otherwise RUE
Word with ''eagle'' or ''evil'' EYE
Worshippers' section NAVE
WWII sub UBOAT
You get down from it EIDER
You may slake it THIRST