USA Today - Dec 12 2007

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Clues Answers
''Assuming that's true . . .'' IFSO
''I'd like to buy ___, Pat!'' ANA
''Peer Gynt'' dramatist IBSEN
''This won't hurt ___!'' ABIT
''Well, ___-di-dah!'' LAH
10 C-notes THOU
4 X 100 meter, e.g. RELAY
Alleviate EASE
Anoint with oil ANELE
Antiquity, in antiquity ELD
Architectural pier ANTA
Artist Magritte RENE
Bakery emanation AROMA
Belief ISM
Bona fide REAL
Bruin great Bobby ORR
By word of mouth ORAL
Carpenter's tool LEVEL
Center of a famous palindrome ERE
Certain resinous substance LAC
CIA worry MOLE
Completely convinced SOLD
Con's blade SHIV
Consequence UPSHOT
Cut in two SEVER
Cyclotron bit ION
Decorative needle case ETUI
Depardieu of ''Green Card'' GERARD
Derby participants HORSES
Devious SLY
Dislike and then some ABHOR
Distinctive stretch ERA
Dry, to a wine taster SEC
Epitaph opener, perhaps HERE
Fitting DUE
Formal accessory STUD
French romance AMOUR
Fritters away time LOAFS
High-pitched voices TREBLES
Clues Answers
Inescapable outcome FATE
Intolerant one RACIST
Last name in fashion DIOR
Lexington's Rupp, for one ARENA
Linkster with an army ARNIE
Lots of feet YARDS
Manufactured MADE
Mardi Gras follower LENT
Marina sight YACHT
Mars, to the Greeks ARES
Negative connective NOR
Nipper the dog's co. RCA
Old alphabetical character RUNE
Pastoral place LEA
Pea's place POD
Perfect Sleeper, for one MATTRESS
Playfully mischievous one SCAMP
Puff ___ ADDER
Quarterbacks, at times PASSERS
Reply to ''Shall we?'' LETS
Sequel title starter, sometimes SON
Some palms SAGOS
Something to do after acres of timber burn REFOREST
Sonny Wortzik film DOGDAYAFTERNOON
Spartan's college, briefly MSU
Star Wars, initially SDI
Swelled head EGO
Tandoor, e.g. OVEN
Ted Nugent song CATSCRATCHFEVER
They may be abuzz with activity HIVES
Thrown-down gauntlet, e.g. DARE
Touched, in a way BIRDBRAINED
Traveled downriver a la Huck Finn RAFTED
Type of hockey shot SLAP
Use a stationary bike PEDAL
Whoppers FISHSTORIES
Word after two hips? HOORAY
Yo-Yo Ma's instrument CELLO
Zapped, in a way LASED