Newsday.com - Aug 19 2007

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Clues Answers
''A __ technicality!'' MERE
''Don't bother!'' SKIPIT
''Famous'' cookie maker AMOS
''Have one of these!'' HERE
''I cannot tell __'' ALIE
''Liquor not provided'' BYO
''Pinocchio'' goldfish CLEO
''Serpico'' author MAAS
''Take __!'' THAT
''Wag the Dog'' actress HECHE
''You betcha!'' ILLSAY
''Zounds!'' EGADS
''__ culpa'' MEA
''__ Gold'' (Fonda film) ULEES
''__ you serious?'' ARE
'70s vice president AGNEW
86 Across, in Acapulco ESTE
Accept another hitch REUP
Act like a shrew NAG
Actor J. Carrol NAISH
Aerobatic manever LOOP
Algerian port ORAN
Aquarium device AERATOR
Asparagus pieces SPEARS
Baltic land: Abbr. LITH
Banquet hosts MCS
Bar passer LAWGRADUATE
Baton passer RELAYRACER
Bearlike beast PANDA
Big Apple baseball venue SHEA
Bouncer's check IDCARD
Caves in RELENTS
Certain Tuscans SIENESE
Chips away at ERODES
Church official ELDER
Compete VIE
Concert lineup AMPS
Controversial documentarian MOORE
De Matteo of ''The Sopranos'' DREA
Defense org. since '49 NATO
Designer Cassini OLEG
Deuce topper TREY
Drinks with scones TEAS
Dry white wine SOAVE
Either ''Wake Up Little Susie'' singer EVERLY
Eric Clapton's favorite guitar BLACKIE
Fashion monogram YSL
Film noir, for one GENRE
Floor assents AYES
Floor sample DEMO
French landscape painter COROT
Fresh-mouthed PERT
Gets 100 on ACES
Gillespie's music BOP
Go passer MONOPOLYPLAYER
Good thing ASSET
Granola morsels OATS
Grid great Rosey GRIER
Hair goo GEL
Hamlisch's coll. major MUS
Healthful retreats SPAS
Hunger for CRAVE
Ill temper IRE
Impressed one's remark GEE
In a docile manner TAMELY
Inc. equivalent LTD
Irish wailer BANSHEE
It's seen in anger RED
Jason's journey, e.g. QUEST
Judgment passer FILMCRITIC
Keep perusing READON
Keynote precursor INTRO
Killed time IDLED
Clues Answers
Knock senseless DAZE
Land south of Turkey SYRIA
Large rodent NUTRIA
Largest asteroid CERES
LAX posting ETA
Leave speechless AWE
Legislation passer CONGRESSMAN
Like some checking NOFEE
Menotti title role AMAHL
Menu selection MEAL
Met, as an occasion ROSETO
Mock, in a way HOOTAT
Muster passer ARMYRECRUIT
Napoleon victory site LODI
Narrow beams RAYS
Neatened up GROOMED
Nine-digit ID SSN
Norms: Abbr. STDS
Numbered rds. RTES
O'Casey contemporary YEATS
Order for dinner HAVE
Ostrich or kangaroo BIPED
Pigskin passer QUARTERBACK
Pithy saying ADAGE
Pitts of '30s films ZASU
Potentially offensive UNPC
Praline nut PECAN
Prepared to be dubbed KNELT
Put down DERIDE
Qty. AMT
Ques. response ANS
Ravens or Falcons NFLTEAM
Recited easily, with ''off'' REELED
Relevant, in law ADREM
Rm. coolers ACS
RR stop STA
Sees eye to eye AGREES
Sewed up ICED
Shakers founder Lee ANN
Shooting stars METEORS
Shop talk ARGOT
Shrink in fright COWER
Sponge opening PORE
Stan's pal OLLIE
Stirrup sites EARS
Strikes back REACTS
Suffix with major ETTE
Sugar type MALTOSE
Sweet drink NECTAR
Swindle FLEECE
Symbol of slowness SNAIL
Take a siesta REST
Take wing AVIATE
Theoretical trial, for short SIM
Think up IDEATE
Time to crow SUNUP
Torch passer OUTGOINGLEADER
Toward 52 Across EAST
Towel word HERS
Towns, informally BURGS
Turn aside DIVERT
Turning point CRISIS
Turns aside AVERTS
Unicellular critter AMOEBA
Up __ (cornered) ATREE
Utter disorder CHAOS
Warship designation USS
Was a fink RATTED
Witch's bestowal CURSE
Worshiped ones DEITIES
www.unicef.__ ORG
Xenia's state OHIO
__'easter NOR