Newsday.com - Oct 1 2008

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Clues Answers
''Closing Bell'' airer CNBC
''For Pete's __!'' SAKE
''Pinocchio'' cat FIGARO
''The show's over!'' GOHOME
''Who's there?'' reply ITSME
Accountant's concern BOOKS
Actor's pipe, e.g. PROP
Actress Dunne IRENE
Agitate STIR
Amazing newcomer PHENOM
Antagonist ENEMY
Aussie pal MATE
Backtalk SASS
Bar mitzvah wish MAZELTOV
Big African beast RHINO
Cairo's river NILE
Candlelit AGLOW
Celestial scales LIBRA
Chowder morsel CLAM
Christie sleuth MISSJANEMARPLE
Correct copy EDIT
Cropped up AROSE
Divs. of a day HRS
Downpours RAINS
Doyle sleuth SHERLOCKHOLMES
Dubuque native IOWAN
Errant GI AWOL
Erstwhile airline TWA
Fictional whaler AHAB
Final authority SAYSO
Fly-by-nighter OWL
Fun's partner GAMES
Garden structure GAZEBO
Gawk at OGLE
Get the lead out HIE
Guy's date GAL
Harvest REAP
Heifer healers VETS
Clues Answers
Helps out AIDS
Hullabaloo HOOPLA
Labor WORK
Limerick or ode POEM
Literary device IRONY
Long-distance specialist MILER
Luke Skywalker's twin LEIA
Merman of Broadway ETHEL
Minty drinks JULEPS
Needing a massage SORE
Offend the nose STINK
Othello's foe IAGO
Poet Sandburg CARL
Price rise HIKE
Prize-filled target PINATA
Pumpernickel alternative RYE
Ques. partner ANS
Reproving sounds TUTS
RI clock setting EST
River through Alaska YUKON
Satirical piece SPOOF
Sayers sleuth LORDPETERWIMSEY
Scott of ''Happy Days'' BAIO
Sealy rival SERTA
Singer Redding OTIS
Slant BIAS
Soda seen on ''M*A*S*H'' NEHI
Some golf tournaments OPENS
Spice mixture, in Indian cookery MASALA
Steer clear of SHUN
Ultimatum word ELSE
Uncool one DWEEB
Upper regions SKIES
Utah city OREM
Verbal fanfare TADA
Where hacks wait CABSTAND
Woodwind instrument OBOE
__ apso LHASA