Newsday.com - May 2 2009

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''Rigoletto'' inspiration HUGO
''__ is Alone'' (Sondheim tune) NOONE
'90s fashion statements HOODIES
About 8.8 liters PECK
Address SEETO
Adidas alternative FILA
Ball playing? RICARDO
Be busy HUM
Bearded grazer GNU
Bygone boomer SST
Call again RETITLE
Canine holders GUMS
Comedy Music Hall of Fame charter member DRDEMENTO
Decorated JAZZEDUP
Destructive one HUN
Determination affirmation IMEANIT
Extended-play periods, for short OTS
Failing GOINGPFFT
Fictional novelist TSGARP
Film set in colonial New York ANTZ
Forms of encouragement PATS
Gets ready TRAINS
Gumbo ingredient ROUX
Heady ELEVATING
High spots HIMALAYAS
Home of the UK National Archives KEW
Ignored, with ''out'' TUNED
Induce BRING
Interoffice letters FYI
It's found in pumpkins VITAMINA
It's used in arm wrestling PEC
Keeps close to HUGS
Leaf feature PORE
Lengthy ties OBIS
Loads ALOT
Long-time telethon cohost EDMCMAHON
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Measure of inflation: Abbr. PSI
Moves confidently TROTS
MVP of Super Bowl XXI SIMMS
Mythical priestess HERO
Name meaning ''old city'' ELTON
Nestlé brand HOTPOCKETS
Not exactly four-star fare BMOVIES
Not tough TENDER
One voted for in November '08 ELECTOR
Pen filler HOGS
Place for a moat ZOO
Publisher's headache PIRACY
Richard __ III
Rolls-Royce products FANJETS
Rough areas GHETTOS
Run-__ DMC
Ruthless person PIRANHA
Save or Print MENUOPTION
Seat INSTATE
Senses INTUITS
Single-track MONO
Sneeze at DESPISE
Something split off SECT
Source of sweat GLAND
Spa offerings OILRUBS
Spaces between peaks CANYONS
Square meal CHEX
Start on a course CHEW
Teen idols ROCKSTARS
Tennyson's ''airy'' group NAVIES
Traffic stopper SIREN
Type of rail COOT
What element 108 was named for HESSE
Windborne pest APHID
__ disco ('80s European music genre) ITALO
__ will FIREAT