USA Today - Sep 29 2004

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Clues Answers
"I hate to break up ___!" (collector's lament) ASET
"Java" musician ALHIRT
"Spider-Man" director Raimi SAM
About, formally speaking INRE
Anastasia's father TSAR
Antiquated PASSE
Asian redhead ORANG
Author Dinesen ISAK
Beer, slangily SUDS
Biblical peak HOREB
Black Sea retreat DACHA
Campus grp. ROTC
Certain 911 respondent, briefly EMT
Conical shelter TEPEE
Contrail milieu SKY
Discover, in a way UNEARTH
Dressmaker's collection PATTERNS
Duffer's goal PAR
Edward Jones Dome team RAMS
Engage in an Old West no-no RUSTLE
Establish the truth by argument PROVE
Excelled SHONE
Fitting decision SIZE
Fitzgerald and Grasso ELLAS
Frittered (away) WHILED
German river EDER
Gettysburg Address word AGO
Give it ___ (swing hard) ARIP
Gossip DIRT
Got off the fence CHOSE
Grate stuff ASH
Greasy spoon fare HASH
Hanker after PINEFOR
Hit record, 1976 IWRITETHESONGS
Indirect suggestions HINTS
It fled with the spoon DISH
Clues Answers
It precedes 10017 NYNY
It's part of growing up RITEOFPASSAGE
Kind of clam STEAMER
Knotty craft MACRAME
Lab culture AGAR
Like erst or zounds ARCHAIC
Like some inaccurate watches FAST
Mandate DECREE
Marked down ONSALE
Medieval figures SERFS
Myopic Mister MAGOO
Nix, in the Oval Office VETO
Norwegian royal name OLAF
Not celebrated UNSUNG
Noted pioneers WRIGHTBROTHERS
One fifth of DXXXV CVII
One of the Three Bears PAPA
Penny metal ZINC
Pig's place? POKE
Portrait session SITTING
Preliminary outlines DRAFTS
Proficiency SKILL
Sabot CLOG
Scrambled alternative OVEREASY
Semilunar valve neighbor AORTA
Singles player, briefly PHONO
Slice of history ERA
Social event TEA
Staff MAN
The two for tennis? ENS
Uneven? ODD
Vexation CHAGRIN
What John Glenn had THERIGHTSTUFF
Winter hrs. in Wichita CST
Word with bed or bill TWIN
Work in shifts ROTATE