Universal - Aug 25 2008

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Clues Answers
''Butterfield 8'' author OHARA
''The best ___ plans'' LAID
''Two Years Before the Mast'' author DANA
A ''Hair'' do AFRO
Agendum ITEM
Aggregates SUMS
Andy Capp's order ALE
Apply, as fingerpaint DAUB
Architectural annexes ELLS
Assert confidently AVER
Be just right FITTHEBILL
Before midnight TODAY
Beginning for ''carte'' or ''king'' ALA
Bemoaned RUED
Capital of the Nabataeans PETRA
Cardinals come here in the summer SHEA
Colombian gemstones EMERALDS
Come up to snuff MAKETHEGRADE
Cookie favorite OREO
Cries of surprise OHS
Dishonorable types CADS
Do more than see RAISE
Doorman's call TAXI
Dressed CLAD
Drum containers EARS
Enthusiasm ELAN
Famous Castle IRENE
Get through an inspection PASSMUSTER
Give power to ENABLE
Guitars, to rockers AXES
Harvard alternative YALE
He did Windows GATES
Idolized ADORED
In the center of AMID
Indy measure LAP
Insignificant MERE
Invertebrate creature INSECT
It gets smashed ATOM
It moves tape through a machine CAPSTAN
Clues Answers
It's lower than dirt SEED
It's nothing NIL
King's proclamation EDICT
Knight's wife DAME
Late-night name OBRIEN
Like a graveyard at midnight EERIE
Like fine cheese AGED
Measureless VAST
Most stentorian LOUDEST
Ms. Moreno RITA
Name with a Diamond in front LIL
Not of this world ALIEN
Noted gallery locale SOHO
One of the Three Bears MAMA
Paper-airplane folds CREASES
Pirates' eyepieces PATCHES
Rodin sculpture ADAM
Sawbones MEDICO
Scramble MIXUP
Shankar with the sitar RAVI
Sidewalk eateries CAFES
Sleeper hit of 1978? COMA
Some party nights EVES
Sudoku solving skill LOGIC
Survive an ordeal STANDTHETEST
Tenderfoot ROOKIE
The life of Riley EASE
They come for your birthday CARDS
Top pick, slangily FAVE
Tug-of-war position END
Type of cabbage KALE
Underground Pueblo chamber KIVA
Use an old-fashioned phone DIAL
What an angry football center does? SNAPS
Woodward or Bernstein, e.g. REPORTER
Word to the wise TIP
Wrestling or bridge maneuver SLAM
Zenith APEX
___ off (plenty mad) TEED