Newsday.com - May 9 2011

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Clues Answers
''Absolutely!'' YES
''Ready __, here I come!'' ORNOT
''That's too bad!'' ALAS
''That's __!'' (''Too bad!'') ASHAME
16, 101 and 947 CARDINALNUMBERS
Absolutely perfect IDEAL
After-bath garments ROBES
Allowed to go free RELEASED
Alpine song YODEL
And so on: Abbr. ETC
Attractive PRETTY
Baby beds CRIBS
Became the new ruler ROSETOPOWER
Boy in ''A Christmas Carol'' TIM
Can't do without NEED
College student's stat. GPA
Colorful aquarium fish TETRA
Defeated ones LOSERS
Denver's state: Abbr. COLO
Difficult problem POSER
Dole (out) METE
Double-curve letter ESS
Embarrass ABASH
Filled tortilla TACO
Forest unit TREE
Fortune-teller's deck TAROT
Full of energy ALIVE
Give a high-five to SLAP
Give it a whirl TRY
Globe-shaped firecrackers CHERRYBOMBS
Go yachting SAIL
Guys MEN
Had lunch ATE
Hand-washing need SOAP
Has an effect on IMPACTS
Hr. after midnight ONEAM
Icy precipitation SLEET
Inquires ASKS
Insignificant MERE
Clues Answers
Life story, briefly BIO
Like Mother Hubbard's cupboard BARE
Look happy SMILE
Lowly worker PEON
Make another tape of RERECORD
Metallic rock ORE
Mid-afternoon hr. THREEPM
Minimum amount LEAST
Numbered roads: Abbr. RTES
Oddly amusing DROLL
Old saying ADAGE
Once around the track LAP
One of Columbus' ships PINTA
Pacific, for example OCEAN
Pay out SPEND
Prepare for a boxing match SPAR
Pub brew ALE
River embankment LEVEE
Room coolers: Abbr. ACS
San Antonio shrine ALAMO
Satellites' paths ORBITS
Search for SEEK
Sheep's sound BAA
Snakelike swimmers EELS
Snooty type SNOB
Stage background SET
Sun. church talk SER
Supply party food for CATER
Tehran's nation IRAN
Togetherness UNITY
Venetian-blind part SLAT
Very impressed INAWE
Very strange EERIE
Vicinity AREA
Where hair roots grow SCALP
Wipe clean ERASE
Without a warranty ASIS
__ Day (time to plant a 39 Down) ARBOR
__ Moines, IA DES