Newsday.com - Apr 17 2008

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''Awesome!'' RAD
''Right you __!'' ARE
''That's gross!'' ICK
''The Great Compromiser'' CLAY
''Why should I?'' WHATFOR
Actress Lanchester ELSA
Adore LOVE
Air chamber LUNG
Area for formal entertaining DRAWINGROOM
Army detachment UNIT
Assuming that EVENIF
Bank-statement charges ATMFEES
Basketball star, often SCORER
Big name in '50s TV DESI
Boot-camp nickname SARGE
Cold war superpower USSR
Company of entertainers TROUPE
Compose PEN
Congregational cries AMENS
Crack a smile GRIN
Czech or Croat SLAV
Debonair DASHING
Diamond of music NEIL
Drag through the mud MALIGN
Encroachments INROADS
Estrangements RIFTS
Evening, to Yves SOIR
Fairy-tale figure OGRE
Fish-market fare SEAFOOD
Genteel gathering TEA
Getting angry RAISINGCAIN
Gooey mass GLOP
Greenbacks FOLDINGMONEY
Group standard NORM
Highlands tyke LAD
Himalayan legend YETI
Inaugural performance OPENINGNIGHT
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Invalid NULL
Iowa city KEOKUK
Island off the Spanish coast MINORCA
Jalopy CLUNKER
Light snack NOSH
Makes smooth SANDS
Mental representations IMAGERY
Mongol ruler KHAN
Mythical king MIDAS
Nickel source ORE
Night of yore EEN
Ones from Waco TEXANS
Out in front AHEAD
Portable tune player IPOD
Radios in rigs CBS
Resided DWELT
Rock singer Rose AXL
Role for a starlet INGENUE
Scandinavian seaport OSLO
Sewed up ICED
Ships out SENDS
Similar in nature AKIN
Six-pt. scores TDS
Ski-lodge quaff COCOA
Some train cars SMOKERS
Sport with masks EPEE
Suffix for script URE
Swindle CON
Talk wildly RAVE
Tall tale YARN
Tress distress SNARL
Tropical nut KOLA
Video-game pioneer ATARI
Without much thought IDLY
Worry BROOD
WWII female WAC
Yoda's student LUKE