Universal - Feb 23 2002

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''--- Howdy Doody time!'' ITS
''Rigoletto'' composer's first name GIUSEPPE
Absolute requirement MUST
Ancient times, in ancient times ELD
Appliance on a board IRON
Bad time for Caesar IDES
Based on the number 8 OCTAL
Blockhead SCHMO
Clam's home SHELL
Coloring material DYE
Cows, old-style KINE
Describing ears OTIC
Development subdivisions LOTS
Diamond bag BASE
Doctrine TENET
Editor's option DELE
End of the strange philosophy ATTHEPAINTSTORE
Fashion with needles KNIT
Force from office OUST
Former Soviet news org. TASS
Frenchman's cap BERET
Give an exam over RETEST
In a stately manner, musically MAESTOSO
It comes back to a spelunker ECHO
It's a bit of a stir CELL
It's almost seven, but seven is not it EVEN
It's deposited when glacial ice melts KAME
Jazz artist Calloway CAB
Jodie Foster title role NELL
John Phillips, professionally PAPA
Kemo Sabe's partner TONTO
Key factor in inflation? AIR
Leader of the Mohegan people UNCAS
Light metallic sound TING
Like a word of mouth ORAL
Lime cover PEEL
Matched parts or part of a match SET
Middle of a strange philosophy IJUSTGETTHINNER
NHL ref's call ICING
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Ninth day before 39-Down NONES
Not obtuse ACUTE
Notwithstanding ALTHOUGH
Obstacle course impediment HURDLE
One of the Four Corners states UTAH
One of the tides NEAP
One place for a ring LOBE
One way to learn ROTE
Overly zealous AVID
Physique BUILD
Pipe opening? TAIL
Pitching ace Martinez PEDRO
Poems that repeat six words SESTINAS
Pot additive ANTE
Prayer endings AMENS
Public commotion SCENE
Rave's partner RANT
Reverse UNDO
Saturnian satellite DIONE
Sharpshooter Oakley ANNIE
Small energy units ERGS
Snake River transport CANOE
Some grown men in New York play here SHEA
Start of a strange philosophy IDONTNEEDTODIET
Sting action CON
Stuck-up one SNOB
Sumac souvenir ITCH
Takes to heart, as advice HEEDS
Tattered BEATUP
Thailand, once SIAM
Titanic transmission SOS
Type of tree PINE
Waiter's injunction ENJOY
Wild boar features TUSKS
Word with falling or flat OUT
Word with living or dead END
Word with past or postage DUE
Words before ''many words'' or ''many ways'' INSO
Yarn that produces rough-textured cloth BOUCLE