USA Today - Aug 17 2004

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Clues Answers
"Get my drift?" SEE
"Mmmm!" YUMMY
"The Black Stallion" boy ALEC
"Why, certainly!" YES
A's in military code ALFAS
Alive EXISTENT
Almost closed AJAR
Amazingly long time EON
Answer to a charge PLEA
Atlas datum AREA
Averted (with "off") WARDED
Bait for shoppers SALE
Baseball great Mel OTT
Beginning on ASOF
Behavioral quirk TIC
Blowout BASH
Column footing SOCLE
Comic actor Johnson ARTE
Cousin of "I agree" METOO
Current letters ACDC
Current wizard TESLA
Cut down PARE
Demolish TOTAL
Durable resin ALKYD
Ennoble EXALT
Extend credit LEND
Fork over REMIT
Grad ALUM
Grasped HELD
Greasy spoon fare HASH
Hula hoop? LEI
Impersonate Jill TUMBLEAFTERJACK
Impersonate Mary BEQUITECONTRARY
Impersonate Miss Muffet EATCURDSANDWHEY
Impromptu ad PLUG
Judge's decision AWARD
Kelly's cohort REGIS
Kind of herring SHAD
Kind of supervision ADULT
Clues Answers
Lacking in vitality PALE
Like a day in Houston, often HAZY
Like some decisions RASH
Loafer adornment CENT
Mama's name CASS
Marquee performer STAR
Month after Adar NISAN
More than punctual EARLY
Not a movie REAL
Number one guy? ADAM
Nutty fruitcake center? ASA
Off base? AWOL
One of the Great ones ERIE
Pack contents? LIES
Pelvic bones ILIA
Pillage MARAUD
Poetry Muse ERATO
Quickie exam QUIZ
Radiate EXUDE
Raised REARED
Raised platform AMBO
Resist, as authority DEFY
Respond to stimulus REACT
Revealing look? XRAY
Run-of-the-mill USUAL
Ryder in "How to Make an American Quilt" WINONA
Salmon do it SPAWN
Scout's pledge word DUTY
Singer with Louis and Duke ELLA
Soothing plant ALOE
Stem swelling EDEMA
Stew or miscellany OLIO
Stock home? YARD
Suffix with star or tsar DOM
Time for a mammoth feast? STONEAGE
Unlikely, as chances SLIM
Video partner AUDIO
Wanders (about) GADS
Watch dog org.? SPCA