USA Today - Sep 17 2007

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Clues Answers
"Relax, and that's an order!" ATEASE
''Car Talk'' home NPR
''Damn Yankees'' actress Verdon GWEN
''Messiah,'' for one ORATORIO
''Serves you right!'' HAHA
''Still Me'' autobiographer Christopher REEVE
''Thar ___ blows'' SHE
911 request AID
Admiral Perry victory site ERIE
Agent Scully of "The X-Files" DANA
Ailment SICKNESS
Aircraft compartment BAY
Airplane parking spot APRON
American realist school ASHCAN
Ballet bend PLIE
Be empathetic RELATE
Bemoan LAMENT
Big baby WIMP
Bird's beaks NEBS
Blue-headed lizard AGAMA
Brazilian hot spot, briefly RIO
Brilliant success ECLAT
By that reasoning ERGO
Cabaret wear BOA
Caribbean capital CHARLOTTEAMALIE
Carried on, as a war WAGED
Chatty porker of film BABE
Cinder-covered ASHY
Clean off the chalkboard ERASE
Clear as a bell LUCID
Comical bits GAGS
Common practice USAGE
Composer's creation OPUS
Confining features ENDS
Critic's word for a boring show SNORE
Crop starter SEED
Cue SIGNAL
Deboner, e.g. KNIFE
Destroy an automobile or add up the damage? TOTAL
Disney trailblazing cartoon STEAMBOATWILLIE
Division of a school year TERM
DMZ part ZONE
Dovish sound COO
Driller's discovery ORE
Dye holder VAT
Dye-yielding plants ANILS
Editorial overrides STETS
Electrical flashes SPARKS
Fever fit AGUE
Finds intolerable HATES
Fork-tailed sea bird TERN
Form a union WED
Fugitive's flight LAM
Furtive SLY
Future tiny worker, maybe ANTEGG
Gel for sunburn ALOE
Gent from Argentina SENOR
Gets GRASPS
GP's group AMA
Granola morsel OAT
Hairy anthropoid APE
Headed up LED
Hebrides language ERSE
Heron's cousin EGRET
Hit from "Flashdance" MANIAC
Hostile force ENEMY
Imaginary scarer of tots BOGEYMAN
Inca's pack animal LLAMA
Installs, as tile LAYS
Intro to Wall St.? IPO
Isn't wishy-washy OPTS
It may involve scrums RUGBYMATCH
It tops some lists TODO
It's inside the tire RIM
Jesus, notably NAZARENE
Kind of dream PIPE
Kind of kitchen EATIN
Clues Answers
Lady who rings a bell? AVON
Lay it down in Vegas BET
Lazy poet's above? OER
Legal scholar JURIST
Licorice flavor ANISE
Like an angle greater than 90 degrees OBTUSE
Loudness units SONES
Make public AIR
Making no sense INANE
Maurice Ravel favorite BOLERO
Media letters since 1980 CNN
Mr. Spock's strong suit LOGIC
Name in the Beatles' inner circle ONO
No game, in bridge NIL
Ohio home of the Wright brothers DAYTON
One of 170 on a trireme OAR
Oscar Wilde's homeland EIRE
Oscar-winning U.N. Goodwill Ambassador ANGELINAJOLIE
Over DONE
Paine's revolutionary booklet, e.g. PAMPHLET
Palindromic Indian bread NAAN
PAN SLAM
Pasta variety PENNE
Permission in Paris OUI
Person who doesn't put down roots NOMAD
Plant firmly EMBED
Pleasant French resort? NICE
Popular prom rental LIMO
Precursor FORERUNNER
Prepared for a dubbing KNELT
Press URGE
Quaff with cannelloni VINO
Receives socially SEES
Recruit's fare MESS
Relative of 44-Across ERNE
Render ineffective NEGATE
Reservation dweller near Durango UTE
Ron Howard played one in "Happy Days" TEENAGER
Russian revolutionary with a goatee LENIN
Sailor's rear end? AFT
Salad in shreds COLESLAW
Sequestered ISOLATED
Shiny cotton SATEEN
Sigma preceder RHO
Singer DiFranco ANI
Sock section TOE
Soldier's period of deployment TOUR
Solve a cipher DECODE
Something nice to look at EYEFUL
Spanish coin replaced by the euro PESETA
Start of Welk's introduction AONE
Steppenwolf hit MAGICCARPETRIDE
Stimulate affection for ENDEAR
Tiny pond organism ALGA
Tolstoy heroine Karenina ANNA
Tony winner Wallach ELI
Tooth that won't bite COG
Transported SENT
Troubles WOES
Turkey side dish YAMS
Twilight, to Tennyson EEN
Twist together ENTWINE
Two-by-four defect WARP
Unburdens (of) RIDS
Uris or Trotsky LEON
Wankel's wonder ENGINE
Water, for all NEED
Weighted rope BOLA
What "little things mean" ALOT
Wild West peacekeepers POSSE
Winged wonders of myth ROCS
Witch killer in ''Hansel and Gretel'' OVEN
With the wherewithal ABLE
Wood for a storage closet CEDAR
Wood-cutting tools RIPSAWS
Word with "wave" or "pool" TIDAL
Worrywart NERVOUSNELLIE