USA Today - May 15 2006

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Clues Answers
''Going to the dogs,'' e.g. IDIOM
''___ Richard's Almanac'' POOR
A malarial fever AGUE
A way to drink whiskey NEAT
Abominable Snowman YETI
Army chow hall MESS
Ash cans? URNS
Avarice, e.g. SIN
Back-of-the-package item, often RECIPE
Beginners NOVICES
Canal to the Red Sea SUEZ
Certain paintings OILS
Clapton ERIC
Clever WITTY
Conceals VEILS
Date COURT
Declares openly AVOWS
Deductive reasonings SYNTHESES
Deplaned, e.g. ALIT
Dice toss ROLL
Disney owns it ABC
Dutch river sight DIKE
Embarrass ABASH
Evaporate DRYUP
Fictional reporter KENT
First part of a proverb REVENGEISADISH
Folklore fiend OGRE
Hair salon stock DYES
Historical object RELIC
Hooligan ROUGHNECK
Hustles HIES
It may get the brush-off LINT
It may shine or fall STAR
It shows the way MAP
It's handed down TRADITION
Last part of proverb BESTSERVEDCOLD
Legal location VENUE
Clues Answers
Licorice-flavored herb ANISE
Like a three-dollar bill BOGUS
Long-gone bird DODO
Loserless outcomes TIES
Made use of AVAILED
Mandolin's ancestor LUTE
Massive ref. work OED
Middle of the proverb LIKEVICHYSSOISE
Mountain climber? TRAM
Naphthalene repels them MOTHS
National Zoo creature PANDA
Negative function word NOT
Nicholas II was the last TSAR
Poetry collection EPOS
Prefix with knock or lock ANTI
Presidential thumbs-down VETO
Prim and reserved STAID
Rayed flower ASTER
Regard highly ESTEEM
Ruth's mother-in-law NAOMI
S-shaped molding OGEE
Slangy affirmative YEAH
Social embarrassment SCENE
Soft drinks SODAS
Soviet revolutionary LENIN
Swiftly APACE
Tease NEEDLE
There companion HERE
Title in India SRI
To make emotionally receptive SENSITIZE
To prevent by legal means ESTOP
Truckee resort town RENO
Unit of instruction LESSON
Visionary flower? IRIS
Winding, as a road CURVY
Word before and after ''to'' ASHES
___ Lisa MONA