Newsday.com - Aug 13 2006

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''Ada'', for one OPERA
''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' author LOOS
''Gimme a break!'' CMON
''That's OK!'' AGREED
''The Constant Gardener'' wife TESSA
''Titanic'' passenger class STEERAGE
44 Across fodder FLOUR
51 Across grp. OPEC
551, once DLI
Actor Stephen REA
Adrien of cosmetics ARPEL
Alphabetic trio EFG
Arises, with ''up'' CROPS
Author Zola EMILE
Averts, as a fencing thrust PARRIES
Awakenings from sleep AROUSALS
Baking gadget SIFTER
Baltimore birds ORIOLES
Baylor University locale WACO
Begins to bloom BUDS
Biblical scribe EZRA
Black bird DAW
Bleachers yell RAH
Blissful states RAPTURES
Bob Dole's state KANSAS
Book after Daniel HOSEA
Brass instrument SLIDETROMBONE
Car mechanism WINDSHIELDWIPER
Carbon dioxide and methane GREENHOUSEGASES
Cash or property ASSET
Catches, as a concert SEES
Chiang opponent MAO
Circle ratios PIS
Circus employee TAMER
Co. head CEO
Comic-book blows POWS
Comparatively foxy SLIER
Cooking ingredient LARD
Create art, in a way SCULPT
Cribbage marker PEG
Cried aloud BAWLED
Days off for most WEEKEND
Do needlework SEW
Eats like a bird PECKS
Egyptian god AMONRA
Elevator inventor OTIS
Emphatic ''yes'' follower SIRREE
Encryptions CODES
Essex, for example EARLDOM
Exact copy MIRRORIMAGE
Faux pas SLIP
Federal agcy. since 1970 EPA
Feeling sore ACHY
Find a new tenant for RELET
Flightless birds RHEAS
Forearm bone ULNA
Free-for-all BRAWL
Gender abbr. FEM
Gets around SKIRTS
Gift of __ GAB
Give an address ORATE
Goalpost adjunct CROSSBAR
Goat features BEARDS
Got up AWOKE
Hawkish Olympian ARES
He's not buying it WINDOWSHOPPER
Helm dir. SSE
Hobbits' home SHIRE
Hoops group: Abbr. NBA
Improved, as musculature TONED
Irene of ''Fame'' CARA
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Large volume SEA
Larger-than-life figures GIANTS
Leave off OMIT
Like referees IMPARTIAL
Like some dolphins BOTTLENOSED
List-shortening abbr. ETC
Lump of earth CLOD
Merchandise: Abbr. GDS
Mideast export OIL
Military operation SIEGE
Minister CLERIC
Mountain tops CRESTS
Move, in realty slang RELO
Muslim leader EMIR
New England seafood SCROD
Not fresh STALE
Not talkative RETICENT
Not very taxing LIGHT
Old Olds model REO
One against OPPOSER
One endowing DONOR
One of 13 Popes LEO
Outdoorsy girls TOMBOYS
Overwhelm, as with complaints BOMBARD
Pacts ACCORDS
Parisian term of endearment CHERI
Penn or Astin SEAN
Piece of parchment SHEET
Pull along TOW
Raised railways ELS
RBI, for one STAT
Reaches down STOOPS
Road sign SLO
Robust HALE
RPM part PER
Runner in the snow MONOSKI
Sales agent, for short REP
San Antonio landmark ALAMO
Scottish negative NAE
Scout group TROOP
Second childhood DOTAGE
Seer's activity CRYSTALGAZING
Ship's mast SPAR
Shooting marble TAW
Shouts in some rings OLES
Slayton of NASA DEKE
Soap-pad material STEEL
Some Slavs SERBS
Star of ''The Shootist'' WAYNE
Symbols of authority SCEPTERS
Synagogue scroll TORAH
Take (from) DEDUCT
Take apart UNDO
Takes advantage of USES
Tapering pillar OBELISK
Telejournalist Koppel TED
Teri of ''Tootsie'' GARR
Theater reservation SEAT
Thus HEREBY
Time-honored AGEOLD
TV talk host OPRAH
Understands GETS
Unhealthy looking SALLOW
Unpackaged LOOSE
Unrefined CRASS
Wading bird HERON
Winter toy SLED
Wizardry MAGIC
Wooden shoe SABOT
WWII turning point DDAY
__ trip EGO