Universal - Jan 2 2002

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Clues Answers
''Fetch'' missile STICK
+ or - item ION
27th U.S. President TAFT
50-50 chance TOSSUP
A plus, definitely ASSET
Affront-filled banquet ROAST
African animal, for short RHINO
Aug. 15, 1945 VJDAY
Bassett of ''What's Love Got to Do With It?'' ANGELA
Billion-year stretch EON
Blockhead CLOD
Blown away AWED
Brazilian soccer hero PELE
Button on 51-Across REC
Chandler's ''Friend'' ROSS
College hero, briefly BMOC
Columbus' birthplace GENOA
Comic Philips EMO
Committee type ADHOC
Costa --- RICA
Current-event reporting group NEWSMEDIA
Dorm denizen COED
Entertainment system component VCR
Feline female of film ELSA
Flightless fowl EMU
Full of promise, as one's future ROSY
German wheels AUDI
Good boy's heart? OLE
Green lights OKAYS
Gregory of tap and ''Tap'' HINES
Habitually humiliated human DOORMAT
He sang about Alice ARLO
Healthy resorts SPAS
Home of the NY Knicks MSG
Initial serving at lunch? BLT
It could be attached to Paul's end INE
Java vessel URN
Knee-high to a grasshopper TINY
Krypton and oxygen GASES
Clues Answers
Lapel label IDTAG
Log lodging CABIN
Ma plays it in front of people CELLO
Metric weight KILO
Monopolize HOG
Mounted GOTON
Org. famous for cookies in America GSA
Outburst from Bill the Cat ACK
Page of music? PATTI
Part of Thurston Howell's wardrobe DINNERJACKETS
Princess Diana's family name SPENCER
R.E.M. vocalist Michael STIPE
Rapper-actor ICET
Really hot day SCORCHER
Rehab's twelve STEPS
Removed soap and dirt RINSEDOFF
Rose late (with ''in'') SLEPT
Say ''nothin''' ELIDE
Scott of ''Happy Days'' BAIO
Seemingly makes more pleasant SUGARCOATS
Sills selections ARIAS
Skip out on the big wedding ELOPE
Snap-brimmed lid PORKPIEHAT
Societal stratum CASTE
Some works from Wordsworth ODES
Soon-Yi's mom MIA
Stellar hunter ORION
Suffix like -like OID
Tie the knot WED
Van Druten's ''I --- Camera'' AMA
Vehicle with treads TANK
Voyages for the vain? EGOTRIPS
Winter blanket SNOW
Woman's semiformal garment COCKTAILDRESS
Word used in dating CIRCA
Word with soccer or hi MOM
Word-of-mouth ORAL
Worst sentence that lets one live LIFE
Yankee homecoming? RUN