Universal - Jul 9 2002

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Clues Answers
''Dream'' or ''sea'' ender SCAPE
''I'll get right ___!'' ONIT
''The one that got away,'' e.g. YARN
28.35 grams OUNCE
4,840 square yards ACRE
A little night music TAPS
A ruler before the revolution TSAR
Absence of heat COLD
Air movement on one regular course TRADEWIND
Airline whose last flight was Dec. 1, 2001 TWA
And others, briefly ETAL
Appease PACIFY
Aquatic plant WATERLILY
Arabic A ALIF
Author Alcott LOUISA
Bartlett, for one PEAR
Bedouin or Omani ARAB
Bee habitation HIVE
Beginning ONSET
Bibulous DRUNKEN
Bordered EDGED
Bread spread OLEO
Browned SAUTEED
Bulgarian capital SOFIA
Call to arms RALLY
Cancel UNDO
Center the crosshairs AIM
Certain bank patron SAVER
Change a manuscript EDIT
Characterized by minimal distortion HIFI
Chipmunks' leader ALVIN
Circumvented EVADED
Clears NETS
Climbed SCALED
Collection of miscellaneous pieces OLIO
Come face to face with MEET
Conformed to a particular format STYLIZED
Corset stiffener STAY
Creators MAKERS
Crucifix ROOD
Curtain DRAPE
Darkish brown UMBER
Egg cells OVA
Emeril's contraption OVEN
Epic tales SAGAS
Epps in ''Love and Basketball OMAR
Equipment for Piazza MITT
Family planning BIRTHCONTROL
Field position RIGHT
Flying saucers DISCS
Former king of Sweden GUSTAF
Former Spanish coin DOBLA
Frankie Goes To Hollywood debut single RELAX
French novelist (1799-1850) BALZAC
General acknowledgment SALUTE
Gumbo ingredient OKRA
Guns the engine REVS
Half ems ENS
Harder to find RARER
Highest man or lowest woman ALTO
III x XIX LVII
Indonesian island SUMATRA
Invitation letters RSVP
It may be gray AREA
It meant nothing to Nero NIHIL
Just like ewe OVINE
Keep in stock CARRY
Knocked on the head CONKED
Knows the plan of attack INON
Large metal vessel with a handle and spout FLAGON
Larry King has a few EXES
Lay down the lawn SOD
Like some garments OUTER
Like some readers AVID
Link to Cyberspace MODEM
List, of a kind TODO
Loosen, in a way UNTIE
Clues Answers
Man is one ISLE
Member of a North American Plains people (Var.) ARAPAHOE
Metal fastener UBOLT
Mind for money, informally SIT
Nae sayer SCOT
Needing replenishment LOW
New York's Russian ___ Room TEA
NYSE counterpart AMEX
Oar SCULL
On the mattress ABED
One of Jacob's sons GAD
One or some ANY
One paying a flat fee RENTER
One-time econ. measure GNP
Peter or Paul TSAR
Philippine banana tree ABACA
Pie contents, often FRUIT
Play the paragon? SETAGOODEXAMPLE
Poem part CANTO
Pointed tools for punching small holes AWLS
Powerful shark MAKO
Prepare for the future PLAN
Pretentious ARTY
Print type, briefly LITHO
Puzo protagonist MAFIA
Quixote and Marquis DONS
Rapids transit CANOE
Recess at church APSE
Recipe direction MINCE
Rectangular paving stone SETT
Related by blood AKIN
Reverberate BONG
Ring around the collar? LEI
Ripening substance AGER
Roadblock SNAG
Roll of film REEL
Run without moving IDLE
Salary WAGE
Say positively AVER
Search for food FORAGE
Seattle player, for short SONIC
Several SOME
She liked Ike MAMIE
Shooter marbles TAWS
Short trip HOP
Shout to a stray SCAT
Skating competition PAIRS
Slight bit TAD
Smokerâs amassment TAR
Spanish metropolis OVIEDO
Spanish reception room SALA
Squirreled-away snacks ACORNS
Stratford-on-___ AVON
Student at 18 down ELI
Substantiate ATTEST
Sudden collapse CAVEIN
Superpower USA
Sweet sandwich OREO
Swimmer's bane EARINFECTION
Symbols of peace DOVES
Synthetic fabric NYLON
Troubles ILLS
Tumbler of rhyme JILL
Twaddle DRIVEL
Unfeeling STONY
Unstable star NOVA
Up to the task? READYANDWILLING
Uses the front door ENTERS
Vary ALTER
What one does to a joint? CASE
What to do to reach a decision? GOFIFTEENROUNDS
Whiffenpoof school YALE
With anticipation EAGERLY
Work of David PSALM
Write briefly JOT
Wrongful act TORT
___ Raton, Florida BOCA