USA Today - Dec 12 2006

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Clues Answers
"A Child's Christmas in Wales" author Thomas DYLAN
"A Doll's House" heroine NORA
"Good Times" actress Rolle ESTHER
"Lend me your ears" speaker ANTONY
"Praise be!" (Var.) ALLELUIA
"The Lord of the Rings" beastie ORC
"Tomorrow" musical ANNIE
''Dear, dear!'' ALAS
''Star Trek'' villain KLINGON
''___ be a pleasure!'' ITLL
''___ Haw'' HEE
100 qintars LEK
2005 role for Charlize AEON
6 x 9-inch page size OCTAVO
A sweet finish DESSERT
AA candidate SOT
Aborigine's weapon SPEAR
Ace of spades, e.g. CARD
Ache YEARN
Advance gradually CREEP
Africa's third-longest river NIGER
Aglow at dusk TWILIT
Akron product TIRE
Ancient stone thrower CATAPULT
Aphrodite was his consort ARES
Artful dodge RUSE
Assay materials ORES
Atlas or Minuteman ICBM
Attend to HANDLE
Auto pioneer Ransom OLDS
Barn owl's prey RODENTS
Biblical preposition UNTO
Big spender's accessory WAD
Bird on the Mexican flag EAGLE
Bit of progress DENT
Breeze-filled AIRY
Bucolic poem IDYL
Building annexes ELLS
Burl place LOG
Campus building dedicatees ALUMNI
Carroll's mad tea-drinker HATTER
Certain East Asian THAI
Certain plaintiff, in law USEE
Certain sib BRO
Checkers do it SCAN
College major MATH
Contemptuous cries BAHS
Deserving more credit UNSUNG
Devour quickly WOLFDOWN
Dr. Phil's last name MCGRAW
Draw conclusions INFER
Ear pieces? CORN
Early string instruments LYRES
Elevator innovator OTIS
Fever attack AGUE
Fictional bell town ADANO
Fill with bubbles AERATE
First word in the Lord's Prayer OUR
Fitting APROPOS
Flippant PERT
Foreign exchange unit EURO
Former military member VETERAN
Fort Knox store INGOTS
Fraternal brother ELK
Freight bearer FLATCAR
Furnace fodder, perhaps COAL
Fusses ADOS
Gallows item NOOSE
Gemstones for some Libras OPALS
Get a glimpse of ESPY
Headliner STAR
Heavy weights in the kitchen IRONWARE
Humidor cheapie STOGIE
Inventor's desire PATENT
It goes before E except after C, sometimes ANI
It's tapped in a frat KEG
Japanese drama NOH
Clues Answers
Kit ___ (candy bar) KAT
Kitchen essential SINK
Land, angler-style REELIN
Leading ONTOP
LeBron James, for one NBAER
Like a tumbler AGILE
Like hearts and diamonds RED
Like some circumstances DIRE
Like some paper LINED
Look-alike RINGER
Lost intentionally THREW
Loud hee-haw HORSELAUGH
Makes sore from friction CHAFES
Map closeup INSET
Meat-and-vegetables concoction STEW
Mideast muck-a-muck AGHA
Milk curdler RENNET
Misinformant LIAR
More in line with reality TRUER
Mountain pass in India GHAT
Musical lead-in INTRO
On a huge scale EPIC
Othello, notably MOOR
Out of the sack ARISEN
Overture follower ACTONE
Oxfordian's parent, e.g. MATER
Part of a name change, often MRS
Pipe player of myth PAN
Place for some large schools SEA
Play the prima donna, e.g. HOGTHESPOTLIGHT
Pollux twin CASTOR
Push button forerunner DIAL
Put into effect ENFORCED
Raggedy doll ANDY
Ragtime dance TURKEYTROT
Ragtime dance TURKEYTROT
Ready to drop DOGTIRED
Recite a mantra INTONE
Recreation area PARK
Room design DECOR
Rowan Atkinson character, familiarly BEAN
Ruhr Valley city ESSEN
Santa ___ winds ANA
Sculpture on a pedestal, perhaps BUST
Shade HUE
Shankar selection RAGA
Shaving cream ingredient, perhaps ALOE
Show fear CHICKENOUT
Smallest Great Lake, in volume ERIE
Sneaky move RUSE
Solo for Placido ARIA
Soup vegetable LEEK
Sticks in a box MATCHES
Swing Era drummer Gene KRUPA
Swinger's hardware? HINGE
Talked a blue streak? SWORE
They cut quite a swath SCYTHES
Thin candle TAPER
To associate? FRO
Tomato impact sounds SPLATS
Trade talk? ARGOT
Tree surgeon, at times PRUNER
Tree trunk BOLE
TV survival show LOST
Venture-launching cost, slangily NUT
Verbal deftness WIT
Vocal approvals YEAS
Volcano of Italy ETNA
Von Richthofen and von Munchausen, for two BARONS
Wear down TIRE
Welcome word ENTER
Wicker fish carrier CREEL
Woodland ruminant DEER
Word in the first sentence of the Gettysburg Address AGO
Words with a ring to them? IDO
Zip NADA
___ Lanka SRI