USA Today - Jan 12 2006

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Clues Answers
''I Love Lucy'' episode, e.g. RERUN
''That'll show 'em!'' HAH
''The Crying Game'' star REA
''The Omen'' boy DAMIEN
''___ HOOKS'' (crate instruction) USENO
''___ It Romantic?'' ISNT
1953 baseball AL MVP Al ROSEN
Actors Grant and Elwes CARYS
Actress Verdugo ELENA
Alternative to briefs BOXERSHORTS
Alums to be SRS
Amtrak alternative GREYHOUND
Apple product CIDER
Attack from all sides BESET
Atty.'s gp. ABA
Awkward INEPT
Babe Ruth's middle name HERMAN
Band date GIG
Barcelona uncles TIOS
Be angry STEAM
Birch and root, e.g. BEERS
Bird's beak NEB
Born as NEE
Browning's Ben Ezra, e.g. RABBI
Buddhist scripture SUTRA
Buddhist sect ZEN
Caesar's hail AVE
Cajun concoctions GUMBOS
Came to terms AGREED
Canute II? GREATDANE
Catchers and chefs have them MITTS
Cease all action END
Change, as the Constitution AMEND
Chekhov and Bruckner ANTONS
Chesterfield, e.g. SOFA
Comic Gilda RADNER
Community type GATED
Comparable to a beet ASRED
Complained bitterly RAILED
Cowpoke's charge DOGIE
Criticizes sharply RAPS
Cuban export CIGAR
Cut short LOP
Director Howard RON
Droop SAG
Dry red wine MERLOT
Egg-rich bread CHALLAH
Ein, zwei, ___ DREI
ETO commander DDE
Fad CRAZE
Famous Quaker PENN
First name in horror flicks BELA
Flow out EBB
Free from RIDOF
French clerics ABBES
French legislature SENAT
French states ETATS
Frequent auditions READ
Fuming IRATE
Furnish with a false alibi, e.g. ABET
Go-getter RETRIEVER
Good 30-foot jumper THREEPOINTER
Hammett's falcon MALTESE
He made heads roll HENRY
He's after ewe? RAM
Idolize ADORE
Impertinent person SNIP
Initials in lending APR
Inst. in Nashville TSU
Iraq city on the Tigris MOSUL
Israeli desert NEGEV
It dissolves in H2O NACL
It may be around a woman's knees HEM
It's at the very top APEX
It's linked to mighty HIGH
Italian dessert SPUMONI
Jennifer Lopez role SELENA
Clues Answers
Judges' orders STAYS
Kind of jump BROAD
Less complicated EASIER
London district SOHO
Lukas of ''Rambling Rose'' (1991) HAAS
Magnanimous BIG
Make restitution for REDRESS
Makes indistinct FOGS
MC less XXXIX MLXI
Medicinal plants ALOES
Mediocre SOSO
Mimic ECHO
Minoan culture site CRETE
Most envied at the beach, perhaps TANNEST
Motivated STIRREDUP
Mouse manipulator USER
Ms. Ward SELA
Mysteriously spooky EERIE
Nabokov heroine ADA
Needle case ETUI
Neighbor of Lux. GER
Nice lady? ELLE
Nonmetallic element BORON
Office entry requirement, perhaps OATH
One of Pittsburgh's three rivers OHIO
Orchestral instruments BASSETHORNS
Pac 10 sch. ASU
Passing fancy FAD
Performed a canticle, e.g. INTONED
Permanent place? SALON
Pert SASSY
Piths GISTS
Prepared to fire AIMED
Prohibit BAN
Razor sharpener STRAP
Refuge HAVEN
Ringside cheer OLE
Russian river URAL
Seamy matter? ORE
Sharp-billed wader EGRET
Shindig BASH
Shortstop's bane ERROR
Sinatra song MYWAY
Singer Rabbitt EDDIE
Single-cell protozoans AMEBAS
Smarts STINGS
Sodom refugee LOT
Some cameo stones ONYXES
Some sow wild ones OATS
Someone Guinness is interested in RECORDSETTER
Sort of soul LOST
Soul singer Redding OTIS
Speak with involuntary pauses STAMMER
Spectrum color RED
Star reading? FANLETTER
Subarctic forest TAIGA
Subsequently AFTER
Symbol of punishment ROD
Tale starter TATTLE
Teacher's tool POINTER
The end of ___ (legend's retirement) ANERA
They may be fine and you may support them ARTS
Thinking man's sculptor? RODIN
This puzzle's theme DOGBREEDS
Three make a tbsp. TSPS
Tiller attachment RUDDER
Trapped, in a way TREED
Uruguayan uncle TIO
Vestige TRACE
Villainous expression SNEER
Wash out with solvent ELUTE
What Carroll's walrus did WEPT
Word with ''souci'' or ''serif'' SANS
Work on shoes RESOLE
___ chi TAI
___ Mochis of Mexico LOS
___-frutti TUTTI