Newsday.com - Jun 8 2008

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Clues Answers
''Dear old'' fellow DAD
''Hotel Rwanda'' actor NOLTE
''It's __-brainer!'' ANO
''O Sole __'' MIO
''One of __ days . . .'' THESE
''War of the Worlds'' world MARS
''__ you cute?'' ARENT
'20s Ford MODELA
'60s pop singer MAMACASS
Actor Epps OMAR
Actor Ken or Lena OLIN
All bollixed up INAMESS
Ancient physician GALEN
Author Walker ALICE
Bard's ''before'' ERE
BB shooter AIRGUN
Be a busybody SNOOP
Be gaga over ADORE
Be next to ABUT
Big Band __ ERA
BlackBerrys, e.g. PDAS
Brew outlet TAP
Brief tussle SETTO
Brooklyn auto parts? DEFENDERS
Brooklyn dry cleaner's chore? DEPRESSING
Brooklyn laptop? DEPORTABLE
Brooklyn political convention VIP? DENOMINATOR
Brooklyn revolutionary hero? DELIBERATOR
Brooklyn stage crew's job? DELIGHTING
Brooklyn storage area? DEBASEMENT
Brooklyn teacher job? DETESTING
Brooklyn teacher's job, after 54 Across? DEGRADING
Brooklyn trailer hauler? DETRACTOR
Chance to play TURN
City on the Rhone ARLES
Collegians wearing Y's ELIS
Contact via cell phone, maybe TEXT
County Kerry town TRALEE
Cross-country gear SKIS
Desktop images ICONS
Dickens title character DROOD
Dict. offerings DEFS
Discounted by LESS
Disheartens DAUNTS
Dunce SIMP
Egyptian god AMON
Ended a fight MADEUP
Ending with mock or crock ERY
Errand runner AIDE
Euro fraction CENT
Exams for HS srs. SATS
FDA part DRUG
Fight site ARENA
Filled to excess SATED
Filmmaker family name COEN
Fished with pots EELED
Flight board abbr. ARR
Free-for-all MELEE
Frisbees, e.g. DISKS
Fully absorbed RAPT
Fuse together WELD
Give the slip to ELUDE
GPS direction SSE
Grace finisher AMEN
Gumbo veggie OKRA
Hamburg's river ELBE
Hammer end PEEN
Handle roughly MAUL
HBO alternative SHO
Held sway REIGNED
Idyllic spots EDENS
Info DOPE
Isaac Bashevis Singer's language YIDDISH
Clues Answers
Jamaican music SKA
Jared of ''Panic Room'' LETO
Java server URN
Job for a plumber CLOG
Jobs for gumshoes CASES
Keep happening RECUR
Less bumpy EVENER
Like a trapeze artist DARING
Like Poe's tales EERIE
Lines with grease LUBES
Meditative syllables OMS
Messed up ERRED
Monopoly buy HOTEL
More pristine PURER
More underhanded SNEAKIER
Mortise mate TENON
Nag, nag, nag CARP
Next in line HEIR
NYSE alternative AMEX
Offer as proof CITE
Ogle LEERAT
On one's toes AWAKE
Our kingdom ANIMALIA
Peat source BOG
Pitching stats SAVES
Poker starter ANTE
Political influence CLOUT
Pop back up REEMERGE
Prefix with nautical AERO
Prefix with pad or port HELI
Progress impeders SNAGS
Pub diversion DARTS
Public persona IMAGE
Pulver's rank: Abbr. ENS
Quote-book abbr. ANON
Race terminus TAPE
Reunion attendee ALUM
Ripening agents AGERS
Rock guitarist Eddy DUANE
Romain de Tirtoff's pseudonym ERTE
Run on DRONE
Sawed logs SNORED
Scout groups DENS
Seagoing predators ORCAS
Secured, as a win ICED
Shakespearean court jester YORICK
Shingle letters DDS
Sign of success SRO
Singer Celine DION
Sir's counterpart MADAM
Slow-cooker creations STEWS
Snapshots, informally FOTOS
Soda flavor GRAPE
Sponge-cake ingredients EGGS
Straddling ATOP
Substantial, as a meal HEARTY
Take in ADOPT
Take the lead STAR
Talk-show lineup GUESTS
Tanker's cargo CRUDE
Teacher's deg. EDD
The other side THEM
Theater sections LOGES
They're ''in'' briefly FADS
Thick-bodied fish CHUB
Try to find SEEKOUT
Tubular lunches HEROS
USSR, to Russians CCCP
Westernmost Aleutian ATTU
What ''i.e.'' stands for IDEST
Wild about INTO
Wilson of ''Wedding Crashers'' OWEN
Wishful words IHOPE