Universal - Feb 16 2002

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Clues Answers
A quarter of four ONE
Aaron's calf, for one IDOL
An abject coward CRAVEN
Anita Brookner's ''Hotel du ---'' LAC
Bagel, topologically TORUS
Baglike cavity SAC
Baseball's legendary Mel OTT
Beat it! DRUM
Before, bard-style ERE
Beverly Hills Hotel offerings SUITES
Break of day AURORA
Brno's locale MORAVIA
Carpet characteristic PILE
Certain carnivore FOX
City neighbor SUBURB
Crossed one's fingers HOPED
Decapod crustacean CRAB
Dieter's choice, perhaps SALAD
Dieter's choice, perhaps GRAPEFRUITJUICE
Empty EVACUATE
Entombs INTERS
Exclude OMIT
Fair JUST
Faithful TRUE
Famous Roman despot NERO
Former British colony ORANGEFREESTATE
From whence you can look down on people ATOP
Gender-changing suffix ESS
Geographical ''boot'' ITALY
Hall-of-Famer Clemente ROBERTO
Home of St. Francis ASSISI
Is for many? ARE
It means nothing to Navratilova LOVE
Item in a baby's wardrobe BIB
Jack Horner's fruit PLUMS
Kind of exam ENTRANCE
Like a clear night STARLIT
Like some of these clues ACROSS
Clues Answers
Make someone do something COMPEL
Marlon in ''The Godfather'' VITO
Miner's pay dirt ORE
Mistake-making ERRING
MIT grad, perhaps ENGR
Mr. Universe's moneymaker BODY
Musician Clapton ERIC
Not brewed, perhaps INSTANT
Old Tokyo EDO
One way to get from point A to point B TAXICAB
Oxford professors DONS
Pants-on-fire guy LIAR
Parabola part ARC
Potential sandcastle destroyers TIDES
Prefix for dynamics AERO
Pure-and-simple UTTER
Remote letters VOL
Romanian currency LEU
Room in Paris SALLE
Saginaw Bay Lake HURON
School, on the Seine ECOLE
Sentence finisher INMATE
Shakespearean commotion ADO
Sign of assent NOD
Sinister slitherers ASPS
Slip cover? DRESS
Small mountain pool TARN
Small, one-crop nations BANANAREPUBLICS
Some say it's over Atlantis OCEAN
Song from ''Flashdance'' MANIAC
Stimulate AROUSE
Three marks on a sundial III
Tone down SOFTEN
Visual symbol ICON
When purchased alone EACH
Woman with a habit? NUN
Yiddish writer Aleichem SHOLOM
___-back (easygoing) LAID