Newsday.com - Feb 22 2012

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Clues Answers
''A __ formality!'' MERE
''Casablanca'' pianist SAM
After-school org PTA
Apportion, with ''out'' METE
Atlanta university EMORY
Be hopping mad BOIL
Benchmark NORM
Big cheese BOSS
Bikini parts BRAS
Birch relative ALDER
Blissful spot EDEN
Boring routine THESAMEOLDGRIND
Capitol topper DOME
Car-radio button PRESET
Cause of woe BANE
Cleveland's lake ERIE
Corrosive acid, symbolically HCL
Cozy corner NOOK
Dangerous snake ADDER
Do penance ATONE
Dweeb NERD
Fictional salesman LOMAN
Fit snugly NEST
Flawless IDEAL
Flowed back EBBED
For the asking FREE
Forcible removal OUSTER
Game often seen on ESPN POKER
Generic pooch ROVER
GNP, for one STAT
Go up against OPPOSE
Gung-ho AVID
Harvest season FALL
Hint of color TINGE
In the thick of AMID
Infamous Roman emperor NERO
Ireland nickname ERIN
Jobs for tailors RIPS
Keen on INTO
Clues Answers
Kind of committee ADHOC
Maple product SAP
Marked wrong XED
Meal for Oliver Twist GRUEL
Metaphorical limit LINEINTHESAND
Misfortunes ILLS
Nose, so to speak SNOOT
Nose, so to speak BEAK
Not included for that price EXTRA
Nursery dwellers BABIES
Nursery purchase PLANT
Orange Bowl locale MIAMI
Oscar winner Kingsley BEN
Outer covering COAT
Pal of Tarzan APE
Palette array PAINTS
Pat gently DAB
Prefix with lock or knock ANTI
Pupil surrounder IRIS
Red-ink entry DEBT
Shakespeare's river AVON
Short skirt MINI
Show hesitation FALTER
Show the direction POINT
Simple machine, in physics INCLINEDPLANE
Small plot of land PATCH
Standing upright ONEND
Superlative ending EST
Sushi-bar display EELS
Take a shot at TRY
Target-practice area RANGE
Teacake SCONE
Three-tier cookie OREO
Took a tumble FELL
Track shape OVAL
Turban wearer SIKH
Well-practiced ADEPT
Word of warning DONT
Wryly amusing DROLL