USA Today - Apr 19 2006

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Clues Answers
''Cheers'' character DIANE
''Dies ___'' IRAE
''The Grapes of Wrath'' figure OKIE
A Finger Lake SENECA
Arterial trunks AORTAS
Ballpark figs. ESTS
Barely accomplished (with ''out'') EKED
Beverage nut KOLA
Bothers IRKS
Cereal for kids TRIX
Certain clubs IRONS
Chief Pontiac's people OTTAWAS
Clement Moore's ''right jolly old elf'' SANTA
Cool one's heels WAIT
County in England KENT
Cross initials INRI
Declare with certainty AVER
Diacritical mark TILDE
Dinero GELT
Earthy color OCHRE
End of Little Jack Horner's boast AMI
Enervates SAPS
Esau's brother JACOB
Exeter-to-London dir. ENE
Foreteller SEER
Former central African republic ZAIRE
Garden fertilizer brand ORTHO
Go back to square one UNDO
Gold measure (Var.) CARAT
Help out BEARAHAND
Helps a child fall to sleep, perhaps READS
History type ORAL
Individuals ONES
Infamous fiddler NERO
Instant TRICE
It may be in the air NIP
It may be practical JOKE
It's often served with a lemon wedge SOLE
It's sometimes a drag RACE
Clues Answers
John on the piano ELTON
Late PLO head ARAFAT
Laudatory poems ODES
Like some petticoats LACY
London and Manhattan districts SOHOS
Machine for shaping wood LATHE
Mail carrier's beat ROUTE
Major river of Spain EBRO
Network signal FEED
New York's Tappan ___ Bridge ZEE
Not fooled by ONTO
Observed BEHELD
Old-time anesthetic ETHER
Organic compound ESTER
Plymouth landmark ROCK
Ponte Vecchio river ARNO
Rags-to-riches author ALGER
Rap sheet abbr. AKA
Responded to an alarm AROSE
Richards of the Rolling Stones KEITH
Shuns ESCHEWS
Sign of the times NEON
Some unexplained sightings UFOS
Swashbuckler Flynn ERROL
Tamper MONKEYWITH
Tenor Caruso ENRICO
They're often included in good deals ACES
This puzzle's theme includes them ANIMALS
Trauma ctrs. ERS
Troubling VEXING
Turn and run, e.g. CHICKENOUT
Unsettle RATTLE
Viper's weapon FANG
Weapons grp. NRA
What a handshake may do SEALADEAL
Word with egg or old TIMER
Write or draw aimlessly DOODLE
X, in letters KISS
Yearn ACHE