Universal - Jul 27 2006

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Clues Answers
''Battleship Potemkin'' setting ODESSA
''Saint Joan'' playwright SHAW
''These Are the Special Times'' singer DION
''You missed a ___!'' SPOT
''___ Miserables'' LES
'50s presidential hopeful Stevenson ADLAI
Abandon DITCH
Abbreviated vacation goal, sometimes RANDR
Acapulco article UNA
Alarm or art add-on IST
Art mart buy, perhaps EASEL
Artificial ERSATZ
Asthmatics' needs, sometimes INHALERS
Author Hubbard LRON
Avg., size-wise REG
Back-to-the-past style RETRO
Bamboo unit SHOOT
Barracks break MESS
Be less than serious JEST
Bearing MIEN
Before, in poems ERE
Best OPTIMAL
Better for the nosher LITE
Bio 101 subject (Var.) AMEBA
Birthplace of a saint ASSISI
Bittern relative EGRET
Board at the track TOTE
Brief strangers? ETS
Celebrity mother of twins, informally JLO
Certain audition SCREENTEST
Certain bazaargoer ARAB
Certain numerical prefix AREACODE
City north of Dallas PLANO
City on the Allegheny OLEAN
Cole who was ''King'' NAT
Couch potato's site, perhaps RECLINER
Crunchy snacks OREOS
Cul-de-sacs, basically BLINDALLEYS
Dead end BLINDALLEY
Deerstalker, for one HAT
Desist partner CEASE
Drops a line WRITES
Elizabeth's love ESSEX
Energizer for some COFFEE
Farsighted investment, briefly IRA
Father-and-son actors ALDAS
Fictional union activist Norma ___ Webster RAE
Financial report column BUDGET
Financial statement figure NETWORTH
Fractional monetary unit of Japan SEN
Futurist of a sort SEER
Garden shelters ARBORS
Gasps of delight AHS
Get ___ for effort ANE
Good ___ (repaired) ASNEW
Ill-fated vessel Andrea ___ DORIA
Immature parasites NITS
Imparts INSTILLS
Income provided by the U.S. govt. SSI
Inspirational tennis champ ASHE
It may be cast DIE
Jacob's wife LEAH
Jazz violinist Jean-___ Ponty LUC
Jelly used for fuel STERNO
Kind of rope or truck TOW
Like sashimi RAW
Like some credit cards MAXEDOUT
Likely to creep one out EERIE
Main cathedral area NAVE
Major trading center of Arabia ADEN
Make less bitter, in a way SWEETEN
Make parallel ALIGN
Mary Todd's love ABE
Morse code T DASH
Motion of the ocean result, sometimes NAUSEA
Music lover's collection DISCS
Clues Answers
Navy, for one SHADEOFBLUE
New York team JETS
Nuts and bolts FACTS
Offensive expression LEER
Officially leave bachelorhood SAYIDO
One hiding fugitives, e.g. HARBORER
One of the filmmaking Coens JOEL
One way to be caught UNAWARES
One who has no trouble developing? SHUTTERBUG
One who's done for TOAST
Opposite of cathode ANODE
Part of Argentina's capital AIRES
PBS benefactor NEA
Peruvian of yore INCA
Phone part EARPIECE
Pieces of property, e.g. ASSETS
Pilot's heading, perhaps NNE
Play before the play CURTAINRAISER
Porcine star of 1998 BABE
Provider of a one-way ride TBAR
Put down the hatch EATEN
Quite a distance MILES
Rash treatments TALCS
River immortalized by Smetana MOLDAU
Rocket launcher NASA
Russian space station MIR
Seductress SIREN
Shade at the beach? TAN
Short flight HOP
Site of Norway's Parliament OSLO
Slalom curves ESSES
Small fry TADS
Smelling things? SALTS
Snacked NOSHED
Snatches NABS
Snooze stentorianly SNORE
Snowshoe rabbit, for one HARE
Some harmonizers ALTOS
Some pantry fillers CANS
Soothing ointment SALVE
Sound at an NBA game SWISH
Sowing machines SEEDERS
Space-saving bed COT
Speaks ill of RAPS
Split RIVEN
Start of a musical scale CDE
Stylish magazine ELLE
Summer havens SHADETREES
Sunday newspaper feature INSERT
Sunday whisper or shout AMEN
Szechwan sauces SOYS
Tenor's moment ARIA
They often get fleeced EWES
Those who deserve respect ELDERS
Thumbelina's creator ANDERSEN
Time to get back to work, perhaps ONEPM
Tin Man's accessory OILCAN
TiVo feature PAUSE
Toast topper OLEO
Turns one's stomach DISGUSTS
TV attorney Matlock BEN
U.S./European force NATO
Waitress with Sam and Coach CARLA
Water purifier CHLORINE
West Pointer CADET
West ___ (Jamaica's home) INDIES
Where leadoff hitters want to be ONBASE
Wicked EVIL
Wimbledon unit SET
With different colored patches PIED
Without question SURE
Witty word whiz PUNSTER
Wood tool ADZ
Words of alarm OHNO
Work in the mail room SORT
Yoga position LOTUS