Newsday.com - May 20 2012

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Clues Answers
''Excuse me'' AHEM
''I thought so!'' AHA
''Love Story'' author SEGAL
''Smart'' person COOKIE
''Summertime,'' for one ARIA
''__ facto'' IPSO
16 Down's division ALEAST
440 yards, for some tracks ONELAP
911 responder: Abbr EMT
ABA member ATT
ABA members LAWYERS
Abrasive mineral EMERY
Angler's basket CREEL
Author Bellow SAUL
Avoid a big wedding ELOPE
Bad-mouth DIS
Badger cousin OTTER
Baker's vessel? TINPANGALLEY
Baldwin of ''30 Rock'' ALEC
Balladeer's rendition TUNE
Battleground of 1836 ALAMO
Biblical shepherd ABEL
Big heads EGOS
Blue Jays, on scoreboards TOR
Boxer's reward BONE
Canadian gas brand ESSO
Casino vessel? LUCKYSKIFF
Casual greeting HEY
Casual greeting HIYA
Certain car contract LEASE
Cheese-topped chip NACHO
Choir vessel? CHORUSLINER
Chooses as a successor ANOINTS
City near Provo OREM
Clean the board ERASE
Columbus and Paganini GENOESE
Comfy-cozy SNUG
Composer Stravinsky IGOR
Confederate ALLY
Cook up, as a plot HATCH
Cost of membership FEE
Court divider NET
Cranial cavity SINUS
Creative class ART
Decides one will OPTSTO
Decrees DICTA
Designer Nina RICCI
Did a blacksmith's job SHOED
Dined on HAD
Dutch cheese EDAM
Early times: Abbr AMS
Easily bent PLIABLE
EMT specialty CPR
Engaged in, as a trade PLIED
Engineering detail SPEC
Excessively TOO
Fam. member REL
Feed holder SILO
Fifth-rate BAD
Figure (out) SUSS
Flash-drive contents DATA
Foggy state DAZE
Food plan DIET
Footnote abbr ETAL
Forest forager DEER
Fragile vessel? GLASSCLIPPER
Freeway entrances ONRAMPS
From Waterford IRISH
Gangster's weapon GAT
Get into the pool BET
Gift for a sweetheart ROSES
Gloss destination LIP
Go beyond PASS
Clues Answers
Go-aheads YESES
Golf clinic subject GRIP
Granola bar bit NUT
Great Barrier Reef denizens EELS
Green stuff LETTUCE
Harbor patrol vessel? SAFETYKETCH
Hem in GIRD
Immediately adjoining ENSUITE
Indian garment SARI
Italian wine region ASTI
Keats, for one ODIST
Large quantity OCEAN
Legal papers, for short DOCS
Light refractor PRISM
Like some hippie T-shirts TIEDYED
Like turquoise BLUISH
Listened to HEEDED
Looks up to ESTEEMS
Loosen, perhaps UNTIE
Lose traction SKID
Makes unfair RIGS
Meteorological tool RADAR
Microwave maker AMANA
Moral principle ETHIC
More substantial HEFTIER
Mum SILENT
Not a noble PLEB
Novel notion IDEA
Nowhere nearby FAR
Numero __ UNO
Oscar role for Whitaker AMIN
Parrot perch ROOST
Passenger freight vessel? LUGGAGETUG
Peevish TESTY
Prepared for a shoot POSED
Present moment NONCE
Promise confidently ASSURE
Queries ASKS
Racer's oar SCULL
Ranchero's rope RIATA
S&L offerings CDS
Secretly watch SPYON
Semi-synthetic fibers RAYONS
Shore eroder TIDE
Singing syllables LALA
Slangy suffix OLA
Slings mud at SMEARS
Some Mexicans MAYAS
Sports channel ESPN
Start over again REDO
Stuffed oneself ATEALOT
Sundance Festival film INDIE
Swamp waders EGRETS
Sweet starter SEMI
Texting ancestor EMAIL
The way things stand ASITIS
Tibetan priests LAMAS
Tiddlywinks, e.g DISCS
Too quickly decided RASH
Touchdown caller REF
Try to strike HITAT
URL opener HTTP
Very popular vessel? HOTLAUNCH
Vessel at a dentists' convention? TOOTHFERRY
Vessel worthy of worship? SACREDSCOW
Vine holder TRELLIS
Vitality ZING
Walk-on role CAMEO
Whichever ANY
Whittle down PARE
Wise ones SAGES
Yawn-inspiring BANAL
__ de Janeiro RIO