Universal - Jan 31 2006

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Clues Answers
"Do as I say" OBEY
"Give them ___ best" OUR
"Howards ___" (1992 Oscar winner) END
"Monopoly" token choice HAT
"One ___ or two?" LUMP
"Out, dagnabbit!" GIT
"Sir" to Gunga Din SAHIB
"___ my case" (courtroom phrase) IREST
"___ Shrugged" ATLAS
"___ to Joy" (Schiller poem) ODE
''Batman'' actor West ADAM
''Burnt Weeny Sandwich'' composer Frank ZAPPA
''Goodness gracious!'' OHMY
''Hold your horses!'' NOTYET
''Mefistofele'' soprano ELENA
''The Cherry Orchard'' playwright Chekhov ANTON
''The First Wives Club'' co-star HAWN
''Uncle!'' IGIVE
''___ Cinders'' (1926) ELLA
''___ Rosenkavalier'' DER
A, B or O, to the Red Cross TYPE
Accords PACTS
Acquires through work EARNS
Adult elver EEL
Algerian seaport ORAN
Alphabetized, e.g. SORTED
Alumna identifier NEE
American ___ (North Dakota's state tree) ELM
Anatomical bump NODE
Anchor's field NEWS
Area behind the choir, perhaps APSE
Ball game delayer RAIN
Barely managed (with ''out'') EKED
Baseball's Sammy SOSA
Bathtub dirt SCUM
Beaten, a la Bobby Fischer MATED
Beef STEER
Bench-clearing brawls MELEES
Beset HASSLE
Birds do it SING
Border on ABUT
Bounds along LOPES
Brazen boldness GALL
Broadcast's sound portion AUDIO
Broadway star Verdon GWEN
California wine region NAPA
Capable feller? AXE
Cask dregs LEES
Celebrity couple, in the tabloids ITEM
Cellist Casals PABLO
Certain Greek vowels IOTAS
Chairperson's plan AGENDA
Chaperon, typically ADULT
Checklist unit ITEM
Chicago-to-Atlanta dir. SSE
Color of unbleached wool ECRU
Comic bit GAG
Computer operator USER
Comrade in arms ALLY
Contaminate TAINT
Cote denizens EWES
Cotton on a stick SWAB
Country cousin of ain't AMNT
Creole cookery item OKRA
Croquet striker MALLET
Cut with acid ETCH
Diploma holder, informally GRAD
Dowdy dresser FRUMP
Drug portion DOSE
E pluribus ___ UNUM
Editorial, e.g. COLUMN
Eloquent equine of '60s TV MRED
Emotional heat ANGER
Event attended by Cinderella BALL
Expanse AREA
Fabric fuzz NAP
Fashion plate FANCYDRESSER
Fashionable English dandy BEAUBRUMMELL
Fern germ SPORE
Flat float RAFT
Form columns TABULATE
Fortuneteller's card TAROT
Fruit coolers ADES
Full amount TOTAL
Gaggle gang GEESE
Garlic, egg and oil sauce AIOLI
Get your bearings ORIENT
Give the right (to) ENTITLE
Give the slip ELUDE
Goat's-milk cheese FETA
Hankerings YENS
Hardly chivalrous RUDE
Hatchling homes NESTS
He entered the ring to ''Pomp and Circumstance'' GORGEOUSGEORGE
He lost to D.D.E. AES
Hobbling gait GIMP
Home run runs TROTS
Honk the horn TOOT
Hoops great Archibald NATE
Household cleaning brand SPICANDSPAN
How often Santa checks his list TWICE
How some stand PAT
Immobilize, at a rodeo HOGTIE
In the distance AFAR
In the manner of ALA
Inspire love in ENAMOR
It comes out in the wash ODOR
It may be bright or big IDEA
Japanese bay city OSAKA
Japanese immigrant ISSEI
Jaunty rhythm LILT
Jennifer in "Dreamgirls" EFFIE
Just a pinch DASH
Keats poem LAMIA
Kind of exam ORAL
Kind of gun RADAR
Clues Answers
Kind of trip taken by one person EGO
Landlord LESSOR
Lend a hand AID
Light you may go on GREEN
Lighter liquid BUTANE
Like an NBA player TALL
Like Tim Cratchit TINY
Loneliest number ONE
Louver feature SLAT
Make a statement AVER
Make bootees KNIT
Many Al Jazeera viewers ARABS
Mass assent AMEN
Mazel ___ TOV
Mess up ERR
Metal-shaping tool SWAGE
Metalworker SMITH
Mickey Mouse chum GOOFY
Ming the Merciless, e.g. EMPEROR
Molt SHED
Monetary unit of Ethiopia BIRR
Mount Olympus residents GODS
Mysterious knowledge ARCANA
Name used in some exclamations PETE
No-show at a mixer LONER
Notorious gangster of the early 20th century PRETTYBOYFLOYD
Odes and idylls POEMS
Open activity TENNIS
Opera set in the time of the Pharaohs AIDA
Orderly NEATASAPIN
Otherwise ELSE
Over the hill OLD
Paired "sweet" and "meat," e.g. RHYMED
Pavilions TENTS
Pinnacles ACMES
Place for cons STIR
Pleasantly flavorful SAPID
Pod veggie PEA
Podium-pounding speech TIRADE
Poetry on an epic theme EPOS
Pregnancy symptom NAUSEA
Prepare for a formal dinner DRESS
Prim and proper STAID
Primordial matter YLEM
Pristine IMMACULATE
Proposition response, perhaps YES
Qatar's org. OPEC
Rate of motion SPEED
Ready for anything GAME
Refugee EXILE
Response to a pickup line, perhaps SLAP
River's end, often OCEAN
Rock's Clapton or Carmen ERIC
Rowan Atkinson persona BEAN
Rummy card TREY
Safe haven LAIR
Sag HANGDOWN
Scold harshly BERATE
Seagirt land ISLE
Seasick feeling NAUSEA
Seldom seen RARE
Shaquille of the Heat ONEAL
Sharp turn ZAG
Shorthand, in short STENO
Showily adorned ORNATE
Similar ALIKE
Smidgen TAD
Some choir ranges ALTOS
Sparkling topper TIARA
Speech-inspiring figures OSCARS
Spoil (with ''on'') DOTE
Spotless CLEANASAWHISTLE
Stage whisper ASIDE
Standoff TIE
Standoffish ALOOF
State with assurance AVOW
Stereo times two QUAD
Sticky note POSTIT
Story told around the campfire TALE
Stunning spray MACE
Styx ferryman CHARON
Subtler alternative to "Yo!" PSST
Synthetic fabric RAYON
Syringe contents, sometimes SERUM
Tabloid TV topics BEAUTIFULPEOPLE
Take the show on the road TOUR
Tedious way to learn: by ___ ROTE
Teenage heartthrob IDOL
Teeter REEL
Their closets are full CLOTHESHORSES
They justify the means ENDS
Thick as a brick DENSE
Tidy SQUAREDAWAY
Tissue addition ALOE
Topics at hand ISSUES
Traditional or Roth IRA
Trumpeter Al HIRT
Type of wrench ALLEN
Use hip boots WADE
Valuable violin AMATI
Vampire's fear STAKE
Walk in a garden PATH
Western scene, sometimes SUNSET
Where to find Badgers and Wolverines BIGTEN
Whistle blower REF
Whittle PARE
Winning-everything connector ISNT
Winter hrs. in Florida EST
Wooden leg? STILT
Wrapped up DONE
Yeshiva teachers REBBES
Young child, affectionately MOPPET
Zero on the Beaufort scale CALM
___ Alto, California PALO
___ Lisa MONA
___-relief (sculpture style) BAS