USA Today - Apr 28 2005

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Clues Answers
''Family Affair'' character BUFFY
''If only that were true!'' IWISH
''Island of the Blue Dolphins'' author ODELL
''Men ___ From Mars . . .'' ARE
''Them'' FOES
''Tricky'' nickname DICK
Animal shelter LAIR
Astronomical object PULSAR
Athens market AGORA
Bangalore-to-Calcutta dir. NNE
Basinger of ''L.A. Confidential'' KIM
Beat one's gums YAP
Bit of thatching REED
Book-lined rooms, perhaps DENS
Bright thoughts IDEAS
Cashes in REDEEMS
Cat's-eye, e.g. GEM
Cattiness SPITE
Delicate ballet position POINTE
Desert flora CACTI
Detect SEE
Director Reitman IVAN
Eero's wing ELL
Ethnobotany, e.g. LORE
Freak out GOAPE
George Jones classic WILDIRISHROSE
Gives it to the judge RESTS
Heck of a party BASH
Hilo garland LEI
Hinder DETER
Home for some skeletons CLOSET
ICU hookups IVS
Important historic times ERAS
Indeterminate amount ANY
It continually moves in the same direction TRADEWIND
It could be poison IVY
It has gobs of gobs FLEET
It may be due, get the point? EAST
It may be enough ONCE
Clues Answers
It may come after setting an alarm SLEEP
Jerry and Adam WESTS
Krazy critter KAT
Largest U.S. collection agcy. IRS
Late bloomer ASTER
Legendary Laker sportscaster Chick HEARN
Like two with love, in tennis TIED
Madre's sister TIA
Make a sweater KNIT
Minute Maid Park player ASTRO
Ms. James or Kett ETTA
Not .edu or .com ORG
Olympic event since 1900 EPEE
On top of, in poetry OER
One for the books? AUDIT
Part of some coiffures PONYTAILS
Playing one's part ONSTAGE
Poker holding, perhaps PAIR
Queen Boleyn ANNE
Ruhr hub ESSEN
Set upon ASSAIL
Showed fright, in a way SHIED
Sound of disapproval HISS
Spreads hay for drying TEDS
Squeaky clean FRESHASADAISY
Teens may fake them IDS
The Donald's first IVANA
The Silver St. NEV
Their days are numbered? CPAS
Throw, as to a child TOSS
Timid one SHRINKINGVIOLET
Unsightly citrus fruit? UGLI
Upper crusts ELITES
Use a prie-dieu KNEEL
Vestige TRACE
Where leopards are spotted? SAFARI
White heron EGRET
___ and bounds METES
___ de Triomphe ARC