USA Today - Jul 23 2004

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Clues Answers
"Law and Order: SVU" actor ICET
''Aida'' backdrop NILE
''Beat the Clock'' activity STUNT
''Blowin' in the Wind'' singer DYLAN
''Brava!'' elicitor at La Scala ARIA
''The Wolf Man'' actor Lugosi BELA
''___ had it up to here!'' IVE
Abductors' crafts, some say UFOS
Act of dishonor BETRAYAL
Adapt machinery RETOOL
Aired anew RERAN
All-Star catcher Rodriguez IVAN
Allows entry LETSIN
Alternative to hot pants MINISKIRT
Approach the summit ASCEND
Assist in malfeasance ABET
Audio antiques HIFIS
Audio signal receiver TUNER
Ball-shaped cheese EDAM
Barks' bottoms KEELS
Bart Simpson, e.g. BRAT
Beaut LULU
Bobby and bowling ends PINS
Boris Godunov, for one TSAR
British submachine gun STEN
Broadcast while happening LIVE
Bufos TOADS
Bugs' tracker ELMER
Casino maximum LIMIT
Centers of power LOCI
Climber's challenge ALP
Clinton has two ENS
Conger chaser EELER
Conservative in Parliament TORY
Couples on the green FRED
Cut off, as a branch LOP
Direction finder? MAP
Dirt excavator, at times ANT
Dish of a dish PLATE
Don Ho's theme song TINYBUBBLES
Double curves OGEES
Driving force? TEAMSTERS
Emmy-winning actress Ward SELA
Emulated a carpenter MEASURED
Emulated a horse whisperer TAMED
Ermines, notably in summer STOATS
Fact twister LIAR
First, second et al. GEARS
Flip comment? HEADS
Flue blackener SOOT
Food trays SALVERS
For each PER
Forum farewell AVE
Funny one of film GIRL
Galba's 1502 MDII
Galoots APES
Game for small folks? MINIATUREGOLF
Goes out of business FOLDS
Golden goodie NUGGET
Grimley and Norton EDS
Half of the ''Monday, Monday'' singers MAMAS
Hardly suitable for farming ARID
Have a late meal SUP
Having the means ABLE
Herodias' dancing daughter SALOME
Honer's concern EDGE
Hosp. centers ERS
India's ___, Daman and Diu GOA
Jacques qua Hulot TATI
K.C. nine ROYALS
Kind of bonding MALE
Kind of understanding TACIT
Klingons, e.g. ETS
Lamebrains DOLTS
Leader of the Bronx Bombers TORRE
Clues Answers
Lend a dirty hand? ABET
Light-footed AGILE
Like ''Night Gallery'' stories EERIE
Like a photo of you in bell-bottoms DATED
Like many cars, houses, etc. RENTED
Like scattered seed SOWN
Like some profits TIDY
Louisa May Alcott novel LITTLEMEN
Love to pieces ADORE
Make rhapsodic ELATE
Man, but not Woman ISLE
Marjoram, e.g. HERB
Moderate TEMPER
Most important KEY
Mustangs go nowhere without it GAS
Mythical hunk APOLLO
Natalie in "West Side Story" MARIA
Offend the nose REEK
Old Faithful, famously GEYSER
Old-time school gear SLATES
One on the run DESERTER
One with no capacity for veracity LIAR
Opinion VIEW
Parisian underground METRO
Pequod's crew, e.g. TARS
Pianist's practice piece ETUDE
Poet of "Prufrock" fame ELIOT
Political sphere ARENA
President before Wilson TAFT
Push vigorously URGE
Put away EAT
Ran comfortably LOPED
Read with great care PERUSED
Red Cross supplies SERA
Reduce to bits and pieces DEMOLISH
Reese in ''Legally Blonde'' ELLE
Remain stationary at sea LIETO
Remove graphite ERASE
Revealing work of art? NUDE
Road hazard GLARE
Roger Bannister, memorably MILER
Sarah Vaughan, to fans SASSY
Scolds severely FLAYS
Self-centered VAIN
She played Nora Charles MYRNALOY
Shiva's wife KALI
Short shortstop? PEEWEEREESE
Sink one's teeth into BITE
Some missiles do it SEEK
Spirit of "The Tempest" ARIEL
Sprightly PERT
Stuff CRAM
Swerves SHEERS
Symbol of slimness REED
Tam's cousin BERET
Team from Los Angeles LAKERS
They battle the Yankees for ink METS
Tibetan monk LAMA
To-the-point TERSE
Torero's reward OLE
Touch-and-go situation ADVENTURE
Trophy handles EARS
Wailed in lamentation KEENED
Walter Donaldson oft-recorded tune LITTLEWHITELIES
Was sweet on LOVED
Weak political group MINORITYPARTY
Wharton grad's major ECON
White House souvenir PEN
Without a choice in the matter FATED
Words of boredom HOHUM
Words with "bragh!" ERINGO
Worker's reward RAISE
Workout specialists TRAINERS
You might get your mitts on it OVEN
___ Gay ENOLA