USA Today - Mar 8 2004

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Clues Answers
"College" member ELECTOR
"Phooey!" FIE
"Roots," for one EPIC
"Yeah, right!" HAH
''Deep Space Nine'' changeling ODO
''Don't give me that!'' PSHAW
''Flags of ___ Fathers'' OUR
''Our Miss Brooks'' actress ARDEN
''To reiterate . . .'' AGAIN
''Tube'' lead-in INNER
''___ Ryan's Express'' VON
12 days per year IDES
16th prez ABE
A relative of mine? HERS
Aberdeen river DEE
Acts the gadabout ROAMS
Agcy. that shoots for the stars? NASA
Alphabetic quartet QRST
Amt. of sugar TSP
Antares, for one STAR
Anti-Parkinson's drug LDOPA
Artist's choice HUE
Baffle STUMP
Bands on the radio? FMS
Bank for a rainy day? LEVEE
Bid for attention AHEM
Big charger RHINO
Black tie affairs GALAS
Blue shoe material SUEDE
Blunt, as reality STARK
Butler's mate OHARA
Capital-raising move, briefly IPO
Captain's greeting AHOY
Casual slacks CHINOS
Chanters INTONERS
Combustion by-product SOOT
Convicted Boesky IVAN
Critter with a pouch OPOSSUM
Cry at the Met BRAVO
Daly of "Judging Amy" TYNE
Dentist's instruction OPEN
Dew Drop ___ INN
Diamond alternative SPADE
Dignity POISE
Diviners SEERS
Dopey or goofy INANE
Down Under carrier QANTAS
Easier on the skin SOFTER
Farm structure SILO
Fiasco on wheels EDSEL
Forest female DOE
Fragrant REDOLENT
Frank option ONION
Furniture wood OAK
George's brother IRA
Goaded URGED
Gone by PAST
Ham's pop NOAH
He wrote about Friday DEFOE
He's the one for ewe RAM
He's there when you run home UMP
Hearing-related AURAL
Hide-and-seek no-no PEEK
Hides, as loot STASHES
Horse tender at an inn (Var.) OSTLER
Hovering INAIR
Hunan cookers WOKS
Implied MEANT
In need of rain ARID
Incite PROD
Instrument with pedals ORGAN
Invigorator TONIC
Is in another form? WAS
It may create a tie-up TWINE
It may open Windows ICON
It's built on SITE
Italian electricity pioneer VOLTA
Jackson's Neverland, e.g. ESTATE
Clues Answers
Lettuce type BIBB
Light gas NEON
Like an interstate highway LANED
Like some exams ORAL
Like the best guards (with ''all'') EYESANDEARS
Limit-pushing tykes IMPS
Lord's Prayer starter OUR
Make electrical repairs REWIRE
Many are drones BEES
Masses HORDES
Mauna ___ KEA
Meds monitor FDA
Melbourne miss SHEILA
Meter reader's concern USAGE
Molten metal residue DROSS
More pleasant NICER
Mountain chain RIDGE
Move a growing house plant REPOT
Nest eggs, briefly IRAS
New Delhi's language HINDI
New Testament chronicle ACTS
No spendthrift, he MISER
Old Roman magistrate AEDILE
One of Liszt's ''Transcendental'' twelve ETUDE
One way to fight TOOTHANDNAIL
Other ELSE
Parks of civil rights ROSA
Part of a winning combination TAC
Peace Nobelist Cassin RENE
Physique BUILD
Pilates alternative YOGA
Practicing doctor? INTERN
Predecessor of Roger and Pierce SEAN
President Roosevelt THEODORE
Provide with a quality ENDUE
Question session POLL
Rainstorm result, sometimes MUDSLIDE
Raised seam WELT
Receipts, collectively TAKE
Rile or rankle ANNOY
Rock's ___ Speedwagon REO
Scholar type RHODES
Scrawny SKINANDBONES
Scream from atop a chair EEK
Set up ARRANGE
Smithy's device ANVIL
Solzhenitsyn's punishment EXILE
Something to talk about ISSUE
Song played on a mandolin LAY
Spanish ''ayes'' SIS
Sporty Camaro IROC
Strip UNROBE
Styles MODES
Summer Olympics powerhouse USA
Swift flightless bird RHEA
Table scraps ORTS
Teamsters notable HOFFA
The Thief of Bad Gags BERLE
They may twinkle TOES
They're virtually pointless EPEES
Things to wait on? HANDANDFOOT
Troop morale booster USO
Turow work set at Harvard ONEL
Uses a tuffet SITS
Verve MOXIE
Way to battle HEADTOHEAD
Way to dance CHEEKTOCHEEK
Way to meet FACETOFACE
Way to talk HEARTTOHEART
What one does for his own interest? LENDS
With-it HIP
Woodworking channel DADO
Word on an express lane sign ITEMS
Word with ''diligence'' or ''date'' DUE
Wow STUN
Yale student ELI
___-fi SCI
___-Locka, Fla. OPA