Newsday.com - Aug 21 2010

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''Simpsons'' bus driver OTTO
18th-century fashion PERUKE
Ancient ''Queen of Heaven'' ISIS
Awkward STICKY
Bell lab patent of 1886 TAPERECORDER
Betray contentment COO
Betray discontentment BRISTLE
Big __ TOE
Bit of sarcasm DIG
Board member of Apple ALGORE
Brain INTELLECTUAL
By itself PERSE
Celebration FIESTA
Check payee, perhaps BEARER
Combatants SIDES
Concert promoters' concerns TURNOUTS
Cut REDUCE
Doesn't move forward SIDLES
Dry fruit NUT
Expecting AWAITING
Fellow traveler SEATMATE
Flap TODO
Friars Club of Beverly Hills founder BERLE
Get to NETTLE
Great time ERA
Hulled grains GROATS
Iberian plateau LAMANCHA
India's national flowers LOTUSES
Industrial giants BARONS
iPad destination INTERNETSITE
Jazz genre SALSA
Jean Valjean, e.g. PRISONER
Kind of crown TIARA
King's annoyance WRITERSBLOCK
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Leaves SCATS
Less than calm FRETTING
Level of equality PAR
Loved one IDOL
Melting-pot cuisine CREOLE
Modernizes, maybe REFITS
NATO member since 2009 CROATIA
Nighttime hunters LEOPARDS
Not very old AGEFOUR
One in school ENROLLEE
One worked for CLIENT
Pepper variety PIMIENTO
Political organization APPARAT
Poorly done BOTCHY
Precocious one at 32 Across READER
Red state IRE
Sanskrit for ''action'' KARMA
Self-service device ATM
Sets forth STATES
Sight user AIMER
Slips by ELAPSES
Smoke-detector output IONS
Spearmint, peppermint, etc. HERBS
Speed measure FSTOP
Stationmaster's concern ETA
Stock options BROTHS
Strapped INNEED
Subject of a Richmond museum POE
Super Bowl champs of '09 STEELERS
Thought FELT
Troubles ILLS
Turn tiresome PALL
Vocal support OLE
__ time NAP