USA Today - Jan 26 2009

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Clues Answers
"Anna Karenina" author Tolstoy LEO
"Beetle Bailey" bellower SARGE
"Big Momma's House" actress Long NIA
"Cast Away" setting ISLAND
"Chariots of ___" FIRE
"Cogito, ___ sum" ERGO
"Crocodile Hunter" Steve IRWIN
"Ditto," in footnotes IDEM
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," e.g. AXIOM
"Infant" ending ILE
"It's ___ Late" (Carole King classic) TOO
"Lanka" start SRI
"Scream" actress Campbell NEVE
"___ Brockovich" (2000 movie) ERIN
''He's ___ nowhere man . . .'' AREAL
A fire may be in it HOLE
Abstain from FORGO
Accessory for a hood's rod SILENCER
Actress Rene of "Ransom" RUSSO
Admirer from a distance EYER
Agreement among countries ENTENTE
Amaze STUN
Among the waves ATSEA
Attacked in ''Ghostbusters'' SLIMED
Author Bagnold or Blyton ENID
Ballantine brew ALE
Banished to Elba ISLED
Bar for a bird PERCH
Beatle wife ONO
Beatnik's abode PAD
Beautiful seductress, in Muslim belief HOURI
Bedside water pitcher EWER
Beyond foolish INANE
Big Band and Victorian ERAS
Big name in news gathering ASSOCIATEDPRESS
Birds of the Arabian Nights ROCS
Bit of work ERG
Bittern relative EGRET
Blender button PUREE
Blind follower DATE
Borodin's operatic prince IGOR
Brady bunch, for one BLENDEDFAMILY
Brickyard 400 entrant RACER
Brings forth, as offspring SIRES
Brusque and surly GRUFFY
Built like Santa FAT
Business relationship AFFILIATION
Business tie? PARTNERSHIP
Campus girls COEDS
Carbonated quencher SODA
Catch in a trap SNARE
Celtic language ERSE
Change made in Washington AMENDMENT
Circus animal SEALION
Clobbered, the old-fashioned way SMOTE
Collaboration COMBINEDEFFORT
Collaborations COMBINEDEFFORTS
Collector's ___ (rarity) ITEM
Company that founded NBC RCA
Conducive to meditation SERENE
Contented sighs AHS
Cookie some dunk in milk OREO
Cosmetics dye EOSIN
Cries of disgust UGHS
Daily Planet reporter KENT
Dangerous precipitation SLEET
Days of yore, in days of yore ELD
Debate position PRO
Deeply piled PLUSH
Deer little one FAWN
Disobedient BAD
Do a gardener's job REPOT
Driver's little helper TEE
Drought-scourged ARID
Drum major's topper SHAKO
Ductwork opening VENT
Ear-related OTIC
Eat, drink and be merry REVEL
Electrical unit of resistance OHM
Emotional confusion MIXEDFEELINGS
Emulate Shylock LEND
Enter one's password LOGIN
Enzyme that curdles milk RENNIN
Eyes a bull's-eye, say AIMS
Famous Hollywood drive RODEO
Fast, tawny feline PUMA
Figure with seven sides HEPTAGON
First of six? ESS
Formal organization ASSOCIATION
Four-legged Oz visitor TOTO
Funeral info OBIT
Genesis fatality ABEL
Got to one's feet STOOD
Greek column type IONIC
Groom oneself carefully PRIMP
Group action COOPERATION
Guileful FOXY
Gumshoe, briefly TEC
Heading on a list of chores TODO
Home to many Indians DELHI
Humongous span EON
Hypnotic state TRANCE
Improve, as wine AGE
Indian city DELHI
It cuts wood along the grain RIPSAW
It's dropped for a trip LSD
It's listed in minutes AGENDA
It's no big thing MOTE
It's within a certain range? OVEN
Italian automaker FIAT
Jackrabbits, e.g. HARES
Jewish man of God RABBI
John Lennon married her in 1969 ONO
Kind of control SELF
Clues Answers
Kind of onion, rice or omelet SPANISH
Knocks lightly RAPS
Lawrence, in Scandinavia LARS
Leave in after all, to an editor STET
Lebanon's flag has one TREE
Led, as a band FRONTED
Length times width AREA
Like a desert ARID
Like beds before housekeeping comes by UNMADE
Like forbidden fruit TABOO
Like some promises EMPTY
Lose the gray DYE
Mackerel family shark MAKO
Made happy PLEASED
Make a contribution ADD
Make square EVENUP
Makes into a statute ENACTS
Many-legged arthropods MILLIPEDES
Mayberry's drinker OTIS
McArdle who played Annie ANDREA
Meal that raises questions SEDER
Member of Indian royalty RANI
Milan landmark, La ___ SCALA
Military no-show AWOL
Monday night entertainment, in fall GAME
Moon of Jupiter EUROPA
More than shouldn't MUSTNT
Morning prayer MATIN
No longer in love with OVER
Old expression of disgust FIE
One of six on a cube SIDE
One way to cook vegetables STEAM
Orchard GROVE
Out of port ATSEA
Pack animal ASS
Paving stone SETT
Pisa tower flaw TILT
Place in an erect position UPEND
Plant swelling problem EDEMA
Point of disagreement ISSUE
Position before one sees the light of day? FETAL
Potassium hydroxide, e.g. LYE
Pound or Cornell EZRA
Prepare, as an aircraft cabin PRESSURIZE
Prized rock GEM
Protection provider BODYGUARD
Provide, as with a quality ENDUE
Rear admiral's rear AFT
Roof of the mouth PALATE
Rough problem to face? ACNE
Russian composer Rachmaninoff SERGEI
Salve a guilty conscience ATONE
Scatter seed anew RESOW
Sent a document via phone line FAXED
Sewing-basket item PIN
Shepherd's, for one PIE
Shocked reactions GASPS
Shooter's downstroke MASSE
Shrewish woman HARPY
Siesta big tops? SOMBREROS
Sign on a school door BOYS
Sixteen-year-old's desire CAR
Skewered meal with peanut sauce SATAY
Slippery and snaky EELY
Small, silvery food fish SMELT
Smooch KISS
Soft returns, in tennis DROPSHOTS
Some everyday articles THES
Some literary flubs MIXEDMETAPHORS
Speed skaters' track shapes OVALS
Stage persona ROLE
Statement of understanding ISEE
Stores for GIs PXS
Studied (with ''over'') PORED
Studio structures SETS
Stuffed deli delicacy DERMA
Subarctic evergreen forests TAIGA
Subway component CAR
Summer ermine STOAT
Sunrise direction EAST
Tavern drinks ALES
Tel ___ AVIV
Theater district of a town RIALTO
Thesaurus offering SYNONYM
They make you stand tall STILTS
They may cause you to aim high TARGETS
Tidal bore EAGRE
To's counterpart FRO
Toledo's waterfront ERIE
Traffic standstills TIEUPS
Trailer for Santa? ANA
Treatment place SPA
Tribute with good-natured ribbing ROAST
Type of occasion SOLEMN
U.S. national flower ROSE
Uncovered BARE
Underwater treasure PEARL
Unseamly condition? RIP
Up to the task ABLE
Vampire killers STAKES
What loving grandparents often do DOTE
Wind in the pit OBOE
Womb contents FETUS
Word with "bum" or "bunny" SKI
Work at lace-making TAT
Work of a composer OPUS
Working animals ASSES
Worst place in the standings LAST
Years and years on end EON
Young bird of prey EAGLET
Yours changes once a year AGE
___ as a rock SOLID
___ the Great (juvenile detective) NATE
___-Wan Kenobi (Sir Alec Guinness role) OBI