Universal - Nov 29 2006

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Clues Answers
''... with a banjo on my ___'' KNEE
''...but to no ___'' AVAIL
''Ahem!'' PSST
''Aw, heck!'' RATS
''Been there, ___ that'' DONE
''Ben-___'' HUR
''By the way ...'' SAY
''Catch you later'' TATA
''Dead man's hand'' card ACE
''Is this seat ___?'' TAKEN
''Leave it in,'' editorially STET
''Masterpiece Theatre'' fare DRAMA
''Once Upon a Mattress'' legume PEA
''School Daze'' director LEE
''That's terrible!'' UGH
''The Ballad of Reading ___'' GAOL
''The Maltese Falcon'' actress ASTOR
''___ Miserables'' LES
1971 New York prison riot site ATTICA
A place ___ itself UNTO
Acts as a quizmaster ASKS
Added lubrication to OILED
Adversary RIVAL
Aim at the barcode SCAN
Air Force Two passengers, once GORES
Alcohol-free DRY
Always, in a sonnet EER
Amphilochus, in Greek legend SEER
And ___ grow on ONETO
Anemic-looking ASHEN
Apollo component LEM
Asian nannies AMAHS
At one time, once ERST
Backslide RELAPSE
Baker's supply YEAST
Balkan native CROAT
Barely burn SINGE
Barkin or Burstyn ELLEN
Bedtime story baddie OGRE
Beef buyer's specification LEAN
Biblical pariah LEPER
Bird now extinct MOA
Bit of cleverness MOT
Boring tool AUGER
Bottle parts NECKS
Bovine errors? COWSLIPS
Brash SASSY
Brown and rainbow, e.g. TROUT
Cap attachment EARLAP
Capital city founded around 1050 OSLO
Cartoon character Krabappel EDNA
Cattle or chicken breed SUSSEX
Chanoyu ritual drink TEA
Chaucerian tale-teller NUN
Cheek pouch morsel ACORN
Combustible heap PYRE
Come unglued LOSEIT
Conceal, in a way CLOAK
Connived SCHEMED
Correlative conjunction NOR
Cosmetic upgrades for automobiles RIMS
Coward's ''To Step ___'' ASIDE
Cyberclutter SPAM
Damaged MARRED
Desensitize DULL
Desktop items PENS
Disk attachment ETTE
Drink for John Glenn TANG
Drool-inducer for Homer Simpson DONUT
Ear-related OTIC
Early 20th-century French painter FAUVE
Eats between meals NOSHES
Endorsement in the church AMENS
Eradicates RIDS
Evil spirits DEMONS
Fancy bashes GALAS
Faxes, e.g. SENDS
Fictional piece TALE
Clues Answers
Five or seven, on the links IRON
Former first name on the Supreme Court SANDRA
Galahad's address SIR
Generous-fault link TOA
Gettysburg Address starter FOUR
Glass-making mixture FRIT
God of thunder THOR
Good guy's transport, in Westerns WHITEHORSE
Great sign for a Broadway angel SRO
Hitch SNAG
Hot sauce, to some stomachs UPSETTER
Impromptu SPUROFTHEMOMENT
Instruct SHOWONETHEROPES
Japanese site of Expo '70 OSAKA
Jupiter, mostly GAS
Kachina doll makers HOPI
Kind of contract ORAL
Kind of hoop or skirt HULA
Kristiania until 1925 OSLO
Leave the trail STRAY
Lies anagram ISLE
Like two, not one EVEN
Major mix-up SNAFU
Make accustomed ENURE
Minimal high tide NEAP
More bombastic LARGER
Muscle maladies ACHES
Name on the doghouse, perhaps SPOT
Narc's find STASH
New car necessities TAGS
Next-door NEAR
Normal prefix PARA
Noted Japanese-American ONO
Object of thought IDEA
Old Testament name NOAH
Once again in control BACKINTHESADDLE
One lacking experience TYRO
One perpetually full of hope OPTIMIST
Pertaining to the unborn FETAL
Piggery STY
Place to plug a new book TALKSHOW
Portion of hair TRESS
Prolonged fear TERROR
Prophetic shrine ORACLE
Punctured ball sound SSS
Put the bracelets on CUFF
Reveille opposite TAPS
Revolver popularizer SAMUELCOLT
Rubbed out OFFED
Scraped by (with ''out'') EKED
Secret store CACHE
Seed appendage ARIL
Sharp pain STAB
She ain't what she used to be OLDGRAYMARE
Short-lived mail system PONYEXPRESS
Solemn appeals OATHS
Some TV fare SERIALS
Stein refill, perhaps ALE
Stretched the truth LIED
Subject to a draft AIRY
Suffix with Israel ITE
Summer, in Savoie ETE
Surrealist painter Max ERNST
Swill SLOP
Takes a leisurely bath SOAKS
Talus formation ANKLE
They publish lists DEANS
Tools in the shed EDGERS
Unfeeling STONY
Unlike a martinet LENIENT
Uris hero Ben Canaan ARI
Victorian, for one ERA
Way through the woods PATH
Wayne sobriquet DUKE
Where some sports events are held ARENA
Willa Cather's ''One of ___'' OURS
___ Rica COSTA
___ Z (completely) ATO