USA Today - Dec 5 2006

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Clues Answers
''Columbo'' star FALK
''Do not take ___ empty stomach'' ONAN
''Ironside'' org. SFPD
''King Kong'' actress WRAY
''The Thin Man'' pooch ASTA
29th state IOWA
Actress Ward SELA
Alka-Seltzer-in-water sound PLOP
Almost persuades TEMPTS
At home with USEDTO
Athenian assembly area AGORA
Bank transaction LOAN
Bayer rival ANACIN
Beach sight SAND
Bronx Bomber YANKEE
Brother's address FRA
Bryce Canyon locale UTAH
Bullwinkle's nemesis BORIS
Cagney player GLESS
Catch ___ (start to get) ONTO
Charity money raiser DRIVE
Clothes buyer's desire PERFECTFIT
Colored like the sky AZURE
Covers a lot of ground PAVES
Crooner Tony BENNETT
Cry of surrender IGIVE
Current state of general acceptance and use VOGUE
Deteriorates ROTS
Eight in a peck QUARTS
Encountering a meter maid may lead to it PARKINGFINE
Ernest of country and western music fame TUBB
First name in mystery writing ERLE
Flipped over the shoulder, e.g. SLUNG
Fund-raising suffix THON
Habitual user ADDICT
Hero followers INES
Historic period ERA
Hunting dog SETTER
It may have coins on the bottom WISHINGWELL
Clues Answers
Italian designer GUCCI
Jerry Seinfeld, to Jerry Seinfeld ROLE
Jim-dandy AONE
Layer with a hole OZONE
Lethal nerve gas SARIN
Lipstick holder TUBE
March Madness org. NCAA
Nebraska tribe (Var.) OTOE
Neighbor of Arg. URU
Nickname for a little guy PEEWEE
Not in port ASEA
Notify of potential danger WARN
Nuisance PEST
Online commercial message POPUP
Pacific Northwest landmark PUGETSOUND
Part of a bow LOOP
Peek ending ABOO
Popular Downing Street address TEN
Primitive dwelling WIGWAM
Put the kibosh on NIXED
Radiance GLOW
Ran in the wash, e.g. BLED
Saber case, e.g. SHEATH
Sis kin BRO
Start of a Ralph Kramden laugh HARDY
Stick on AFFIX
Take a header, e.g. TRIP
They may come after breakdowns TOWS
Tibetan oxen YAKS
Tikrit's land IRAQ
Two-masted vessel YAWL
Uncomfortably full SATED
Unofficially off-base AWOL
Vane dir. ENE
Vatican tribunal ROTA
Word before a coveted cup STANLEY
Works dough KNEADS
Writing fluid container INKPOT
___ Friday's (restaurant chain) TGI