Universal - Feb 25 2006

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Clues Answers
''And the earth ___ without form'' WAS
''Island of the Blue Dolphins'' author ODELL
''The Nazarene'' author Sholem ASCH
29th state IOWA
Ampule kin VIAL
Apartment building employee (Abbr.) SUPT
Bancroft or Boleyn ANNE
Bit of truth decay LIE
Bolt units YARDS
Break it and you may be out on the street LEASE
Bypass SKIP
Calm by deception, perhaps LULL
Certain NCO TSGT
Clair de ___ LUNE
Comforts SOLACES
Consummate IDEAL
Coral habitat REEF
DEA agent NARC
Elias and Gordie HOWES
Experienced know-it-all WISEOLDOWL
Expounds upon OPINES
Feel affection for LIKE
Formerly faddish doll ELMO
Galena or cinnabar, e.g. ORE
Gardener's need SOIL
Gather for oneself AMASS
Guns it REVS
Hands-on classes LABS
Holiday season NOEL
Involuntary muscle contraction SPASM
It has its reservations HOTEL
It's spoken in Vientiane LAO
KFC side dish SLAW
Kind of house or glasses OPERA
Kind of top HALTER
Known HEARDOF
Koran chapter SURA
Leigh Hunt's ''___ Ben Adhem'' ABOU
Like some decisions RASH
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Literary ''before'' ERE
Loud and discordant STRIDENT
Man or woman with a title? OWNER
Martin's TV sidekick ROWAN
Monte ___ (Monaco principality) CARLO
Most daring BOLDEST
Most sacred HOLIEST
Not the brightest people DUMBCLUCKS
Numbskull DUNDERHEAD
On pins and needles EDGY
Penultimate letter WYE
Performs ''Stairway to Heaven,'' e.g. ROCKS
Philharmonic instrument OBOE
Plant appendages AWNS
Poked fun at RIBBED
Purim's month ADAR
Purposely stay just out of reach, e.g. TEASE
Reached the tarmac ALIT
Sea eagle ERN
Shade of hosiery ECRU
Some comics STANDUPS
Stretch of shallow water SHOAL
Stuffed shirt PRIG
Support in shenanigans ABET
They're placed on horses SADDLES
Title word in a Doris Day song SERA
TV producer? RCA
Type of sandwich HAM
Unintelligible writing to me GREEK
Utterly destroys, as an automobile TOTALS
Wailing warning SIREN
Wainscots (Var.) DADOS
Wing-shaped ALARY
Wisenheimer SMARTALECK
Women, to hard-boiled detectives DAMES
Word in a Debussy title MER
Word with litmus or acid TEST
Zoroastrian living in India PARSI
___ Domini ANNO