Newsday.com - May 11 2009

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Clues Answers
''Coming soon'' announcement PROMO
''Too bad!'' ALAS
Adds to the payroll HIRES
Army group UNIT
Basketball target HOOP
Broad valley DALE
Bullets, for instance AMMO
Castaways' escape vehicles RAFTS
Cherry pit, e.g. SEED
Circulate FLOW
Clumsy INEPT
Clumsy one CLOD
Coffee containers CUPS
College military grp. ROTC
Complete collections SETS
Consumer USER
Corrosive chemical ACID
Cub Scout groups DENS
D sharp alias EFLAT
Didn't move STAYEDPUT
Dress smartly PREEN
Egged on GOADED
Escorted to a seat LEDIN
Fall bloom ASTER
Female deer DOE
Foe ENEMY
Free-for-all MELEE
From the US AMER
General direction TREND
Give as an example CITE
Give off EMIT
Highly regarded ESTEEMED
Historical times ERAS
Hockey implement STICK
Hotel patrons GUESTS
It might read ''WELCOME'' MAT
Legal action SUIT
Long dresses MAXIS
Lumberjacks' tools AXES
Clues Answers
Make a new strategy REPLAN
Maui or Tahiti ISLE
More tempestuous STORMIER
Notion IDEA
Numbered work OPUS
Office stations DESKS
Once __ a time UPON
Papa's partner MAMA
Paramedic: Abbr. EMT
Plant firmly EMBED
Poor-quality BAD
Pub game DARTS
Quart fraction PINT
Rain hard POUR
Satisfactory OKAY
Scale note after fa SOL
Scratch target ITCH
Security problem LEAK
Short distance STEP
Skin scrapes ABRASIONS
Sleeping-car accommodation LOWERBERTH
Solar-system centers SUNS
Spherical hairdos AFROS
Thaw MELT
The one yonder THAT
Thesaurus entry: Abbr. SYN
Top-billed actor STAR
Totally destroyed REDUCEDTORUBBLE
Unlikely to bite TAME
US alliance NATO
Vote into office ELECT
Was patient HELDON
West Point student CADET
When a magazine issue comes out ONSALEDATE
Where Cleveland is OHIO
Where Japan is ASIA
Wide belt SASH
__ mater ALMA
__ of the above NONE