USA Today - Dec 22 2005

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Clues Answers
''Andy Capp'' cartoonist Smythe REG
Adolescent TEEN
Attacks a la ''Ghostbusters'' SLIMES
Babe and Baby RUTHS
Bad thing to fly into RAGE
Beijing baby nurse AMAH
Bottom-of-the-barrel sediment LEES
Bridge supports TRESTLES
Cash on hand? BET
Cenozoic, for one ERA
Chinese idol or stick JOSS
Clue that started this all ONE
Cone-shaped paper hat FOOLSCAP
Corn follower PONE
Cornrows alternative AFRO
Defunct Russian parliament DUMA
Double-play inducer SINKER
Earthenware pot OLLA
Edge BRIM
Effortless win ROMP
Elizabeth formerly of the Red Cross DOLE
Encircle with a band GIRD
Exterminator's quarry PEST
Fine-tunes HONES
First word of a three-word command READY
Frost RIME
Give someone the business REFER
Habits WONTS
Hearth tool POKER
Highrise in nature AERIE
Implies HINTS
Int'l org. of inspectors UNTEAM
June 6, 1944 DDAY
Kind of belly BEER
Kind of wrestler SUMO
Kinda, sorta . . . INAWAY
Largest of a certain seven ASIA
Late July baby LEO
Latin 101 verb ESSE
Clues Answers
Letter for Gandalf RUNE
Litter critter RUNT
Ma makes a living with it CELLO
Medical grp. AMA
Mississippi sight BARGE
Mr. Kent CLARK
Muscle malady ACHE
Muscular fitness TONE
Ninth hour after sunrise, ecclesiastically NONES
Not in port ASEA
Obviously hot on the range ABOIL
Olympian Louganis GREG
Parade winds FIFES
Parsley relative ANISE
Part of an ultimatum ORELSE
Pennsylvania port ERIE
Portnoy's creator ROTH
Roman courtyards ATRIA
Sal of song GAL
San'a is its capital YEMEN
Separate APART
Setting for many jokes BAR
Shady recesses ARBORS
Small jazz group, e.g. TRIO
Song of praise (Var.) PEAN
St. Paul's architect WREN
Surrounding presence AURA
Therapist's diagnosis of a nocturnal neurosis? AFREUDOFTHEDARK
Therapist's greeting in ''The King and I''? HELLOJUNGLOVERS
They may be caught in the summer RAYS
Thief in a riot LOOTER
Thin GAUNT
Tower of London birds RAVENS
Type of wind ILL
Unit of energy ERG
Unwelcome word at a china shop? OOPS
Where a therapist's poor advice may take you? FROMMBADTOWORSE
Word with chair or street EASY
Work for a body shop DENT