USA Today - Feb 11 2005

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Clues Answers
''A Prairie Home Companion'' feature TALE
''Close,'' in a kid's game WARM
''Dedicated to the ___ Love'' ONEI
''Is there an ___ in here?'' ECHO
''It's ___ cry from . . .'' AFAR
''Nova'' network PBS
''Peter and the Wolf'' bird SASHA
''So there you are!'' AHA
''The Mikado'' wraps OBIS
''West Side Story'' extra SHARK
''What ___!'' (''How funny!'') ARIOT
''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' playwright ALBEE
''Yes ___'' (Sammy Davis Jr. bio) ICAN
''___ & Andy'' AMOS
''___-Cop'' (Reynolds film) RENTA
365 billion days, in astronomy EON
A ridge, especially on cloth WALE
Alpha's counterpart OMEGA
Alyssa in ''Fear'' MILANO
Anne Douglas Sedgwick novel TANTE
B-29 spinner, briefly PROP
Bean or Welles ORSON
Booster rocket AGENA
Bullwinkle the toon MOOSE
Canary cousin SERIN
Cannes confidantes AMIES
Captain Hook's aide SMEE
Changes, as the Constitution AMENDS
Character assassination in print LIBEL
Chooses by ballot ELECTS
Civic, for one HONDA
Civil rights leader Medgar EVERS
Conquer BEST
Coolidge and Hayworth RITAS
Corrida charger TORO
Covered by waves AWASH
Creeps up on NEARS
Curtain call call BRAVO
Device for finding lost garlands? LEIDETECTOR
Drowned valley RIA
Elbow room SPACE
Engage SWITCHON
European capital OSLO
Everyday article THE
Expel from one's property EVICT
Eye surgeon's aid LASER
Feast attendees, obviously EATERS
Figure skater Thomas DEBI
Find a new tenant RELET
Finish among the first three PLACE
First name among gymnastics legends OLGA
First name in architecture EERO
Former British naval base, ___ Flow SCAPA
French auto-racing mecca LEMANS
Give a clue about LETON
Gives a thrill SENDS
Green basil-based sauce PESTO
Hammer-smashes-thumb reaction YELP
Hawaiian city HILO
High roller's roller DIE
Intelligence purveyor SPY
Jack of Westerns ELAM
Jam, peanut butter, etc. SPREADS
Joyous dances HORAS
Jump shot's path ARC
Kind of coffee IRISH
Knighted Guinness ALEC
Knights' wives DAMES
La Scala's city MILAN
Loch Ness monster, e.g. LEGEND
Long in the tooth AGED
Lost fish NEMO
Mary's follower, in verse LAMB
Math subj. CALC
Medium for playing the Blues? ICE
Memorable sayings SAWS
Clues Answers
Merchandise WARES
Mexican misters SENORES
Milk-lover's letter opening? DEARDAIRY
Misplay, as a grounder MUFF
Modify ALTER
Montana's capital HELENA
Moonshine mix MASH
Moray hunter EELER
Morph from a canine to a feline DOGDOTROTRATCAT
Morph from an auto to a larger vehicle CARCANBANBUNBUS
Morph from parched to soaked DRYDAYWAYWATWET
Neck of the woods AREA
Neckwear component, perhaps BEADWORK
Newsman Williams with a charley horse? LAMEBRIAN
Nice farewell? ADIEU
Not a single woman WIFE
Numbskull DOPE
One of a boxed set? EAR
One who walks down the aisle? USHER
One whose business is picking up? MAID
Ornamental trees or shrubs HOLLIES
Palindromist's dogma TENET
Part of a famous soliloquy NOT
Patriot Allen ETHAN
Person who may be made-up? ACTOR
PG assigner RATER
Philanthropists DONORS
Phonograph needle STYLUS
Pioneer's hearing? OREGONTRIAL
Place to see others scoring ESPN
Pompeiian courts ATRIA
Prefix for surgeon or transmitter NEURO
Proves one's generosity GIVES
Punic Wars soldier ROMAN
Put to work USE
Put up, as a building ERECT
Recedes EBBS
Religious retreat ASHRAM
River of Belgium YSER
Sam ___ (Dr. Seuss character) IAM
Scored 100 out of 100, e.g. ACED
Sean Connery, for one SCOT
Sentence unit WORD
Siding with FOR
Signs of joy, at times TEARS
Singer Vikki CARR
Smelting residue SLAG
Smidgen IOTA
Snick or ___ SNEE
Speaker's platform DAIS
Squeezebox ACCORDION
Striped decision maker REF
Sub's ears SONAR
Supper scrap ORT
Sycophant TOADY
Take away ERASE
Tallahassee's st. FLA
Taurus' neighbor ARIES
Therefore ERGO
They hold all the cards? DEALERS
Transfer and messenger molecules RNAS
Treasury agent, briefly TMAN
Triple flip, e.g. FEAT
Type of model ROLE
Unified ASONE
Up-to-date MOD
Welder's gas ACETYLENE
Went after aggressively HADAT
Where Bunsen burners burn LAB
Wine press residue MARC
With the bow, in music ARCO
Woody Guthrie's kid ARLO
Wore the carpet thin PACED
Wrangler's rope LASSO
___ Alto, Calif. PALO
___ ease (relax someone) SETAT