Universal - Sep 24 2001

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
''Camels'' of the Andes LLAMAS
''Chariots of Fire'' finale RACE
''Como ___ usted?'' ESTA
''Immediately if not sooner!'' PRONTO
''Kon-___'' (Heyerdahl) TIKI
''Or ---!'' ELSE
''Snake eyes'' ONES
''Soft'' or ''silver'' attachment WARE
''That's nothing,'' e.g. SCOFF
''The Great Ziegfeld'' star LOY
''The Matrix'' hero NEO
''While'' lead-in ERST
Act of faith? LEAP
Actor Wallach ELI
Actor's buddies? PENNPALS
African hot spot SAHARA
Anklets BOBBYSOCKS
Arduous Beatle tour? STARRTREK
Asinine MORONIC
Assayer's need SCALE
Audibly censor BLEEP
Back talk LIP
Beat to the tape OUTRAN
Beethoven's "___ to Joy" ODE
Biblical transport ASS
Bill CUSTOMERINVOICE
Block a punch, e.g. REACT
Boater's blade OAR
Bob FISHERMANSFLOAT
Bobby of the Bruins ORR
Breakdown aftermath TOW
Brother of Abel SETH
Brouhaha ADO
Cameroon neighbor GABON
Canon competitor NIKON
Cartoonist's defenses? CAPPGUNS
Casting requirement? REEL
CAT scan alternative MRI
Cauldron VAT
Cause for stage fright SOLO
Center of rotation AXIS
Certain Barbary state TUNIS
Chuck-a-luck equipment DICE
Classic '20s auto REO
Cleaver's ''Soul ___'' ONICE
Co-winner of 1994 Nobel Peace Prize PERES
Cold War-to-detente transition THAW
Compact carrier HANDBAG
Competitive social gathering BEE
Copycat APER
Corral youngster COLT
Cotton product SWAB
Customary observance RITE
Daredevil Knievel EVEL
Deluge INUNDATE
Difficult task ONUS
Direct elsewhere REFER
Downright unpleasant NASTY
Drive off REPEL
Dust jacket comments BLURBS
Egyptian symbol of life ANKH
Eighteen-wheeler RIG
Either T of AT&T TEL
Elaborate piano piece TOCCATA
Entertainer Lane ABBE
Ersatz butter OLEO
Established fact GIVEN
Ethel Waters' "___ Blue?" AMI
Factions SECTS
Fades out EBBS
Feminine force YIN
Floor measure AREA
Follow orders OBEY
Forster subject INDIA
Friend of 1-Across ELAINE
Friends, in Latin AMICI
From C to C OCTAVE
Funnyman Philips EMO
Germ cell or the like SPORE
Get an edge HONE
Give or take ABOUT
Glance over SCAN
Go down the runway TAXI
Go easy on the calories DIET
Go no farther STAY
Good protein source TOFU
Grow narrower TAPER
Guests may do it RSVP
Gun attachment? POWDER
Gung-ho ZEALOUS
Headed the pack LED
Hodgepodge OLIO
Holiday cookie GINGERBREAD
Holm of ''All About Eve'' CELESTE
Human bone ULNA
Hummus accompaniment PITA
Identity disguiser ALIAS
In need of dehumidification DAMP
Inst. founded by Jefferson UVA
Is past WAS
Isn't serious JESTS
It may look for a buck DOE
It's breaking, at times NEWS
It's named after an opera star MELBATOAST
Jack VEHICLEELEVATOR
Jack of Tom Clancy novels RYAN
Jerry's TV neighbor COSMO
Judge's bench BANC
Kid around with PUTON
Lack of practice, metaphorically RUST
Lager kin ALE
Languor INERTIA
Latakia's land SYRIA
Light bulb generators? IDEAS
Lighten EASE
Like arguments or coins TWOSIDED
Clues Answers
Like Santa's helpers ELFIN
Look-alikes RINGERS
Lower in public estimation ABASE
Lucy's mate DESI
Madrid-Cartagena dir. SSE
Major broadcaster CBS
Manage to avoid AVERT
Mansard overhang EAVE
Mary's "Peter Pan" nemesis CYRIL
Master of ceremonies EMCEE
Mayday rel. SOS
Means of transport VEHICLE
Measure of skill TEST
Meddlers' probes NOSES
Monstrous lake NESS
Much-read article? THE
Napoleon's isle while in exile ELBA
Native American of the North CREE
Natural shade ECRU
Nearly 5,000 square yards ACRE
Negative beginning NON
No. cruncher CPA
Noble HIGHBORN
Nothing in Normandy RIEN
Novelist HonorŽ de --- BALZAC
Nursery denizens INFANTS
October or J, relatively TENTH
Of equal standing ONAPAR
On the Mediterranean, e.g. ASEA
One of the shifts DAY
One with a stage coach ACTOR
Out of kilter ASKEW
Oz visitor TOTO
Paneled rooms, typically DENS
Pennant chases RACES
Performance space STAGE
Pianist Gilels EMIL
Piggy-bank feature SLOT
Place for "Dragnet" info? WEBBSITE
Planet's path ORBIT
Poi source TARO
Pointless weapon EPEE
Prefix meaning highest ACRO
Public Enemy genre RAP
Putting concern LIE
Ready to eat RIPE
Red Guard supporter MAO
Ricky's landlady ETHEL
Rockefeller's company ESSO
Roles in Spielberg's "A.I." ROBOTS
Row producer HOE
Rubbernecked STARED
Rubbernecked GAPED
Salmon type COHO
Schwarz with the toys FAO
Section of a literary work PASSAGE
Sedgy stretch MARSH
Send to Siberia EXILE
Sequential list of events TIMELINE
Serial installment's ending CLIFFHANGER
Showdown time, in oaters NOON
Sierra Maestra country CUBA
Simple text PRIMER
Sleep state REM
Small needle case ETUI
Small wheel CASTER
Snowballs, sometimes AMMO
Soccer star's broadcast medium? HAMMRADIO
Some e-mail SPAM
Some social events TEAS
Something forged IRON
Son of Ramses I SETI
Sound unit equal to 10 decibels BEL
Space shot segment REENTRY
Sports unit TEAM
Staff and spar RODS
Staging ground ARENA
State vehemently AVER
Strike results, sometimes OUTS
Strikingly unusual things EXOTICA
Suave URBANE
Sulfur attribute ODOR
Sun-blocking hat BONNET
Superfectas, e.g. BETS
Surrounding and blockading a city SIEGING
Sweeten the pot ANTE
Tab picker uppers TREATERS
Telegraphy trademark TELETYPE
Tennyson poem DORA
The Old Sod ERIN
The wealthy may live in it STYLE
Three feet plus, to a Brit METRE
Time saver SHORTCUT
Tiny amount of progress INCH
Toss back and forth BANDY
Toss overboard JETTISON
Totally changed REDID
Turkish peak ARARAT
Type of hand IRON
U.S. foe of old CSA
Uhlan's weapon LANCE
Uniform EVEN
Unspecified power NTH
Value highly ESTEEM
Watch attachments FOBS
Western group POSSE
Where Johnny might get cash ATM
Wild cats PUMAS
Word with ''miss'' or ''sighted'' NEAR
Word with split or tail END
Word with ticket or secret AGENT
Words between one time ATA
Work break for a former "Sexiest Man"? PITTSTOP
Worms, at times BAIT
Writer Umberto or system header ECO
Written promises IOUS