USA Today - Oct 12 2005

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Clues Answers
''Good for what ___ you'' AILS
''My word!'' ISAY
''Silkwood'' star STREEP
''Speak up!'' LOUDER
1958 Pulitzer author James AGEE
Actress Falco EDIE
Antebellum northerner (with ''free'') STATER
Archaeological dig find, sometimes TOOL
B&O and D&RGW RRS
Baltimore bird ORIOLE
Barrie dog NANA
Be a poor winner GLOAT
Birthright seller ESAU
Blotch on one's record PRIOR
Boater, for one STRAWHAT
Break time SPRING
Brews, as tea STEEPS
CCL x X MMD
Chinese menu items EGGROLLS
Cockeyed ASKEW
Cycle starter TRI
Deadly fly, when doubled TSE
Devoted following CULT
Do divine work? DOWSE
Down with something ILL
Draw out EDUCE
Early late-night host PAAR
EMT skill CPR
Enforcer, essentially ARMTWISTER
Exchange fee AGIO
First name in skunks PEPE
Funny joke RIBTICKLER
Green garnish LIME
Hammett dog ASTA
High regard ESTEEM
Hotel offering SUITE
House of Blues event CONCERT
Human and extraterrestrial BEINGS
It has quite a grip CLAMP
Clues Answers
It's hard to miss EYECATCHER
Jackie's second ARI
John's wife YOKO
Kind of steak TUNA
Kings Peak state UTAH
Leopold cohort LOEB
Longtime Connecticut senator DODD
Made a choice OPTED
Major division of a long poem CANTO
Mayberry character OTIS
Mentor, essentially HANDHOLDER
Miami daily HERALD
More frilly LACIER
No-star meal SLOP
Not quite a quartet TRIO
Obey a sentry HALT
Octavia's husband NERO
Old Milano money LIRA
Pass between mountains GORGE
Pencil part NIB
Pigeonhole ASSORT
Plays with masks NOH
Prominent NOTED
Pump part SOLE
Queried ASKED
Remark of the unimpressed BIGDEAL
Romanov title (Var.) TSAR
Rug rats TOTS
Sailor's stint SEADUTY
Smirky smile GRIN
Spanish painter El ___ GRECO
Star Wars research prog. SDI
Stone weight CARAT
Theme ideas TOPICS
To really enjoy a meal, do this EAT
Waiter's place LINE
Way with a no. RTE
Young men LADS
___-relief sculpture BAS