Universal - Dec 29 2001

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Clues Answers
"Chicago" lawyer, really GERE
"You Are My Destiny" singer ANKA
''... and pretty maids all in ---'' AROW
''...--- a lender be'' NOR
''Goldfinger'' role GALORE
--- majesty LESE
--- Maria (coffee liqueur) TIA
A "Road" destination RIO
A neighbor BFLAT
Accident reminder SCAR
Aching back? BENDRESULT
Acquire ATTAIN
Actress Shire TALIA
Animated schoolteacher Krabappel EDNA
As in a nutshell TERSE
Auditioner's goal ROLE
Bad Brown, of song LEROY
Bad guys on "Law & Order" PERPS
Bad men of opera, usually BASSI
Baked beans, sometimes SIDEDISH
Bar, legally ESTOP
Be HAVEANEXISTENCE
Bea ARTHUROFSITCOMS
Bear in the stars URSA
Beatnik drum BONGO
Bee SPELLINGCONTEST
Boastful street kid? BRAGAMUFFIN
Bohemian ARTY
Brings into harmony ATTUNES
Britain's "Jewel in the Crown" INDIA
Bulldoze, in Leeds RASE
Capital of Ghana ACCRA
Ceremonial fire PYRE
Chew persistently GNAW
Child vis-a-vis numbered dots CONNECTOR
Child's job CHORE
Church staple ORGAN
City near Silver Springs, Florida OCALA
City on Utah Lake OREM
Classical lead-in NEO
Coat length LONG
Competing VYING
Con game SCAM
Critique of our military dancers? BRAVEREVIEW
Diana of "The Avengers" RIGG
Downfall RUIN
Drained liquid from BLED
Earth sci. ECOL
Embargoes BANS
Excessive plug? HYPE
Fashion sense STYLE
Faucet failings DRIPS
Feature of many hotels ATRIUM
Field's Norma RAE
Film Cannon DYAN
Flunk FAIL
Former Turkish title BEY
Frost's ''The --- Not Taken'' ROAD
Furze GORSE
Gardner of mystery ERLE
German export AUDI
Get-rich-quick gamble LOTTO
Grad, for short ALUM
Greek sandwich GYRO
Guinness ALEC
Gumbo OKRA
Hayes or a TV barkeep ISAAC
Herald of spring ROBIN
Hi-fi successor STEREO
Hitchcockian (Var.) EERY
Home to many Indians DELHI
Homegrown LOCAL
Icicle's anchor EAVE
Important historic times ERAS
Intents AIMS
Clues Answers
Intro to Roni RICEA
Irritate RILE
Italian grape wine VINO
Kind of history ORAL
Labeled, as luggage TAGGED
Lacking refinement RUDE
Lattice piece SLAT
Lends a hand AIDS
Long of ''Big Momma's House'' NIA
Madrid's other OTRA
Make indistinct BLEAR
Mark given by a garment insp. IRR
Monument to honor soldiers CENOTAPH
Morales the actor ESAI
More prudent WISER
Mountain lion PUMA
Movie sneak peek (Var.) PREVUE
Operates RUNS
Ornamental, but poisonous, shrub OLEANDER
Paradise lost EDEN
Paragon IDEAL
Part of MGM MAYER
Part to grab hold of, maybe END
Peter's "Shot in the Dark" co-star ELKE
Petitions SOLICITS
Pitchfork features TINES
Plane in action EVENER
Plato's T TAU
Pointer's beam LASER
Poisonous VENOMOUS
Polish off EAT
Praise or extol LAUD
Priest and minister's cohort, in jokes RABBI
Purplish hue MAUVE
Quality of a shrill sound STRIDENCY
Quick quaff SWIG
Rather, for one DAN
Reply to the waiter, perhaps RARE
Requirements NEEDS
Roman lover's intro AMO
Sesame plant TIL
Shopper's mecca MALL
Sing in the Alps YODEL
Slow, for Vivaldi LENTO
Sodium chloride SALT
South American rodent PACA
Strong as --- ANOX
Summer slaker ICEDTEA
Talked in a monotonous tone DRONED
They hit and get hit in Baltimore ORIOLES
Three squared NINE
Tip in Tabriz RIAL
Tipping off ALERTING
To a great degree HIGHLY
To be effective, it needs a good paddling CANOE
Trim PRUNE
Trounce CLOBBER
Turns the lights down DIMS
Twinge of pain PANG
Two-thirds of a Three Tenors selection OSOLE
Type of duck DEAD
Type of zone NOFLY
Ukraine capital KIEV
Urgent delivery for painter? BRUSHORDER
Ventriloquist Lewis SHARI
Very attractive WINNING
Violin ancestor REBEC
Voice of America agcy. USIA
Wade opponent ROE
Wheel past DRIVEBY
Willow tree twigs OSIERS
With the greatest of ___ EASE
Word with car or dirty POOL
Yabba / doo filler DABBA
___ polloi HOI