USA Today - Aug 30 2005

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Clues Answers
''Happy Birthday'' authors ICERS
''Nick at Nite'' offering RERUN
''___ Hay'' (Aldous Huxley work) ANTIC
A question of identity WHO
A strong alloy NICKELSTEEL
Approaching the center INWARDS
Arnold may call her ''Mom'' EUNICE
Artist Matisse HENRI
British cleaning woman CHAR
British commander at Bunker Hill HOWE
Capital of Latvia RIGA
Card game for two WAR
Caterpillar's rival DEERE
Chopped down HEWN
Cobbler's tools AWLS
Corn spike EAR
Dagger handle HILT
Declare as fact AVER
Drew back, like a startled horse SHIED
Earlier in time AGO
Escutcheons SHIELDS
Feathered plume on a helmet PANACHE
Fireplace adjunct MANTEL
First name in the ''Titanic'' cast KATE
First things half of all newlyweds change? NAMES
Flat tableland MESA
Food fish related to cod HAKE
Ford's colleague OLDS
Garbed CLAD
Garden beauty IRIS
Gobbles down WOLFS
Hawaiian veranda LANAI
Hem and haw HEDGE
Homophone for seize SEES
It's good for what ails you REMEDY
Jonathan Larson's musical RENT
Key factor in inflation? AIR
Lighthouse sites CAPES
Lines that just touch TANGENTS
Clues Answers
Make sharper HONE
Malicious MEAN
Martinelli and Lanchester ELSAS
Mass of glass PANE
Menu phrase ALA
Miscalculates ERRS
Not a blood relative INLAW
One of Columbus' ships NINA
One way to be wanted ALIVE
One-time paperback DIMENOVEL
Palindromic address MADAM
Periods from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 NOELS
Pet for King Solomon APE
Pitch to one side CANT
Playmates for Poms, perhaps PEKES
Poland's Lech WALESA
Possessive pronoun YOUR
Public speakers ORATORS
Pueblos' one-time foes UTES
Saddam Hussein, for one IRAQI
Samoan seaport APIA
Short musical pause QUARTERREST
Small time PENNYANTE
Some extensions ELLS
Some fish bait CHUM
Some trumpeters SWANS
Sound reflection ECHO
Spackler's target NAILHOLE
Spring summer? CPA
Steadying rope GUY
Superior to OVER
Supporting beam TRUSS
Table extension LEAF
Trauma sites, for short ERS
Unwieldy situation MESS
Warehouse's function STORAGE
Well-heeled RICH
Whoopi, in ''The Color Purple'' CELIE
Woody Guthrie's son ARLO