USA Today - Jun 1 2006

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Clues Answers
'''Cause I ___ me spinach'' EATS
''Clair de lune'' composer DEBUSSY
''The Godfather'' title DON
''The Nutcracker'' heroine CLARA
Acquired relative INLAW
Arthur Ashe's alma mater UCLA
Asia's Trans-___ Range ALAI
Balderdash TRIPE
Bannister distance MILE
Big name in petroleum ARCO
Biology or chemistry SCIENCE
Bird on the beach, perhaps TERN
Bird with a harsh cry MACAW
Birmingham-to-Mobile dir. SSW
Boiling blood IRE
Broadcast journalist Marvin KALB
Broke bread ATE
Buddhist who has attained Nirvana ARHAT
Burn soother ALOE
California wine valley NAPA
Canal to Buffalo ERIE
Capital of Japan, once KYOTO
Catch sight of ESPY
Chloroform substitute ETHER
Church adornment, perhaps STAINEDGLASS
Church feature STAINEDGLASS
Comical equine MRED
Common Latin abbr. ETC
Cotton bundle BALE
Cubbyhole NICHE
Cut evenly HALVE
Cygnet's father COB
Daryl Hannah in ''Splash'' MERMAID
Database command SORT
De novo ANEW
Dental woe ACHE
Dermatologists' subjects CYSTS
Desiccated ARID
Diffident SHY
Diocese SEE
Dog walker's need LEASH
Dubious tactic DIRTYTRICK
Durer supplies ACIDS
Eat gluttonously GORGE
Embarkation location PIER
Embezzler's worry AUDIT
Emulated a pig OINKED
Executor's concern ESTATE
Existence ESSE
Extreme, as pain ACUTE
Fabric amts., often YDS
Fairy tale figure GNOME
Fashionable reading ELLE
Fill to excess SATIATE
First name in scat ELLA
Forest denizens SPOTTEDOWLS
Gemologist's concern CARATS
General drift TREND
Genesis shepherd ABEL
Gets fur all over the rug, e.g. SHEDS
Go astray ERR
Gridiron units YARDS
Hajj destination MECCA
Handwringer's feeling WOE
Health department concern ECOLI
Holiday lure, often MALL
Home to a cranberry crop BOG
In it together ALLIED
Inca Trail site ANDES
Introduce gradually PHASEIN
It has a stripe on its back VISA
It has electric organs EEL
Jazz trumpeter Jones THAD
June star? REESE
Just back from the blacksmith's SHOD
Kind of duck DEAD
Landscaping tool EDGER
Last name in ''The Courtship of Miles Standish'' ALDEN
Clues Answers
Latitude PLAY
Leporine leapers HARES
Like Marvin MESSY
Like some sheets FITTED
Like the Marx Brothers MADCAP
Long-distance chats TOLLCALLS
Mason's burden HOD
Moneyed FILTHYRICH
More than booed EGGED
Mork's planet ORK
Motorist's org. AAA
Moves along PRODS
Musical postscripts CODAS
Muslim title of honor AGA
Near-failing grade DEE
Nonelectronic correspondence SNAILMAIL
Not only that ALSO
Not susceptible IMMUNE
Nursery rhyme domicile SHOE
O'Hara's portrayer LEIGH
Old Chevy NOVA
One of Dada's fathers ARP
Order from on high EDICT
Out of kilter ASKEW
Parents' legacies GENES
Part of ''Titanic,'' e.g. SCENE
Part of Great Britain since 1536 WALES
Part of NBA practices FOULSHOOTING
Parts for actors ROLES
Pat and Pete, among others STS
People in circles? WINNERS
Phi follower CHI
Pirate's booty SWAG
Place for down-home cookin' GREASYSPOON
Place to find a legend, often MAP
PLO rival HAMAS
Put into service USE
Puts a whammy on HEXES
Racing boat SCULL
Red herring PLOY
Red Sea republic SUDAN
Roman who wrote about the history of Rome LIVY
Sacrum or parietal, e.g. BONE
Safe place REFUGE
Sandburg's ''The People, ___'' YES
Siddhartha Gautama BUDDHA
Sizable LARGE
Some farm critters RAMS
Some railway systems ELS
Speak indistinctly MUTTER
Sports VIP MVP
Stock in trade for the tabloids DIRTYLAUNDRY
Straight up or straightened up NEAT
Stuff up CLOG
Take pleasure in RELISH
Tangle with, country-style RASSLE
Temperate MILD
Temple outcast, perhaps IDOL
Tennis great Chris EVERT
The first H in HRH, perhaps HER
Third son SETH
To be, to Tiberius ESSE
Took enough guff HADIT
Treat like a dog? PET
Unctuous OILY
Unit of illumination LUX
Unparalleled SOLE
Whimsically funny DROLL
Wise guys SAGES
Word on a Mexican stop sign ALTO
Word with bar or area CODE
Word with pig or pony TAIL
Words with tear or good day ONA
Worn out SPENT
Yoga class need MAT
You can shake it or break it LEG
___ gin fizz SLOE
___ Miss OLE