USA Today - Oct 9 2006

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Clues Answers
''By ___!'' (mild oath) JOVE
''Kill Bill'' star Thurman UMA
''Tortilla Flat'' actress of 1942 LAMARR
''Trinity'' novelist URIS
''Verily, ___ unto you'' ISAY
A soybean state IOWA
Absentminded type SCATTERBRAIN
All the rage HOT
Auto rolled out in 1954 TBIRD
Bad to the bone EVIL
Being nothing more than specified MERE
Bodement OMEN
Brine-cured salmon LOX
Celestial point APEX
Cohen on ice SASHA
Countertenor ALTO
Curriculum ___ (resume) VITAE
Does some mending SEWS
Dramatist with three Pulitzers ALBEE
Etc. cousin ETAL
Eye membrane IRIS
Fencing choices EPEES
First American executed for spying HALE
Fixed prices RATES
Fountain fare COLA
French cheese BRIE
Funds for the golden yrs. IRAS
Godly DIVINE
Good soil LOAM
Hook's assistant SMEE
Hook's nemesis, briefly CROC
Horizontal window piece SILL
Hover menacingly LOOM
Indication SIGN
Jail feature IRONBAR
Job benefit PERK
Knuckle-dragging sorts APEMEN
Launches an attack ASSAILS
Leading OUTINFRONT
Clues Answers
Legal expert JURIST
Like some premonitions EERIE
Like some vaccines ORAL
Likewise TOO
Lord or Lady, e.g. TITLE
Make amends ATONE
Meddlesome NOSY
Miniseries that won nine Emmys ROOTS
Needs a doctor AILS
One across the border? UNO
One who could be a Sunday driver GOLFER
Poetic name for Ireland ERIN
Prefix meaning ''trillion'' TERA
Reason for a government check, perhaps TAXREBATE
Red-carpet treader VIP
Sandy's human ANNIE
Schlep TOTE
Seller's warning ASIS
Set of beliefs ETHOS
Short-order order SCRAMBLEDEGG
Some past dates? EXES
Sound of delight OOH
Stir up ROIL
Thick dictionary section ESS
Things to drool over BIBS
Tilts a plane BANKS
Toss dice for money, in slang SHOOTCRAPS
Troubles or woes ILLS
Type of measuring system METRIC
Unfilled calendar squares OPENDATES
Unhurried gait LOPE
Unspoken feeling VIBE
Valentine's Day gifts, often ROSES
Vintage vehicle REO
When to open the curtain ACTI
Word with truth or blood SERUM
Words with whim or roll ONA
Yemen neighbor OMAN
Yokels BOORS