Newsday.com - Mar 14 2012

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Clues Answers
''Cabaret'' director FOSSE
''Common Sense'' pamphleteer PAINE
''Drop me __'' ALINE
''It __ Necessarily So'' AINT
''Oh, no!'' NOTTHAT
''Put __ Happy Face'' ONA
''The Faerie Queene'' poet SPENSER
'70s Egyptian leader SADAT
Agricultural pest BORER
Ale bottle size PINT
Allow LET
Bakery worker's request TAKEANUMBER
Barbershop sharpener STROP
Battery type NICAD
Become bushed TIRE
Beret cousins TAMS
Big tops TENTS
Bridge declaration IPASS
Bring up REAR
Cable film channel HBO
Cleverness WIT
Co. VIP PRES
Cowboy accessories SPURS
Degrade ABASE
Drier device LINTTRAP
Easy-to-swallow tablet GELCAP
Exodus commemoration SEDER
Family nickname SIS
Family room DEN
Fictional sleuth Wolfe NERO
Flaws DEFECTS
Get in the game PLAY
Get really steamed SEERED
GNP, S&P indices, etc STATS
Hang in there LAST
Historical span ERA
Iditarod competitors SLEDDERS
Improve to the max PERFECT
Knight or bishop CHESSPIECE
Clues Answers
Korean automaker KIA
Light on one's feet AGILE
Like some private communities GATED
Mined fuel COAL
October birthstone OPAL
Overexertion result, perhaps BACKSTRAIN
Paperless cash transfers WIRES
Parade spoiler RAIN
Partner of Charles Rolls ROYCE
Passed with flying colors ACED
Pirate's pal MATEY
Poke fun at RIB
Prefix for commuter TELE
Prepared potatoes, perhaps BAKED
Replaces in a pinch BATSFOR
Resolve a situation CLEARTHEAIR
S&L offering IRA
Says further ADDS
Sciences partner ARTS
See eye to eye AGREE
Sense of sound EAR
Set as a price ASK
Short and direct TERSE
Spanish Surrealist Joan MIRO
Spendthrift's opposite SAVER
Spice holder RACK
Springboard performer DIVER
Substitute for ACTAS
Suffix for legal ESE
Tough questions POSERS
Tourney favorite SEED
Trinidad's partner TOBAGO
Unspecified individual ONE
Vehicle for hire CAB
Veteran mariners SEADOGS
Where surgeons work ORS
Yale student ELI
Yellowstone roamer ELK
Youngster TYKE