USA Today - Feb 2 2006

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Clues Answers
''. . . ___ a midnight dreary'' UPON
''Rocky ___'' (1982) III
Aegean and Beaufort SEAS
Alphabet trioacross STU
Awards-night platform DAIS
Be minutely precise SPLITHAIRS
Be revolting? RISE
Bone china component ASH
Breaking a commandment LYING
Carroll character ALICE
Caviar, literally ROE
Ceremonial event RITE
Certain brain size PEA
Construction site sight GIRDER
Contents of some banks DATA
Could be chem. or mech. ENGR
Daniel or Pat BOONE
Deep divide CHASM
Dissipate EVANESCE
Dragon roll ingredient EEL
Drained of energy SAPPED
Dutch South Africans BOERS
Editorial-page feature MASTHEAD
Emphasize PLAYUP
Evidence of a poor assembly SPAREPARTS
Exclude OMIT
Exuberance ELAN
Gets it all wrong ERRS
Gran Paradiso, for one ALP
Hippocratic pronouncement OATH
Historical region of England ESSEX
In an extremely large manner MASSIVELY
Indoor plant areas, perhaps ATRIA
Irish dog SETTER
It welcomes change SLOT
Joan of Arc's crime HERESY
Kind of asst. ADMIN
Kind of talk or rally PEP
Clues Answers
King David's instrument HARP
Large artery AORTA
Laugh-a-minute RIOT
Lend ___ (pay close attention) ANEAR
Life of Riley EASE
Link between home and school, briefly PTA
Mao ___-tung TSE
March fliers KITES
Nolo contendere, e.g. PLEA
Nottingham nemesis HOOD
Number of Muses NINE
One's Big, another's Little DIPPER
Part of Tina Turner's revue IKE
Perfumer's compound ESTER
Pizzeria shovels PEELS
Place to pass the baton RELAYRACE
Put into a database ENTER
Reversals of fortune SETBACKS
Sam or Alistair COOKE
Sandwich man? EARL
Saturn's spouse OPS
Some diplomatic doings TALKS
Some don't leave work without it CAB
Some labor union ultimatums STRIKEDEADLINES
St. Paul's birthplace TARSUS
Stead LIEU
Suffer from lack of water WILT
Sympathy partner TEA
T. follower REX
Table prop LEG
Thermos inventor James DEWAR
Transparent gem BERYL
Trojan War hero ODYSSEUS
Type of fire CEASE
Type of rug AREA
Type of whale SPERM
Unable to sit still ANTSY
Whalebone BALEEN