Universal - Aug 20 2002

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Clues Answers
''--- extra cost'' ATNO
''Be that --- may...'' ASIT
''Let ---!'' (advice to the obsessed) ITGO
''My Three Sons'' character ERNIE
''Othello'' villian IAGO
''The Name of the Rose'' author ECO
''True Colors'' singer Lauper CYNDI
''Two Women'' Oscar winner Loren SOPHIA
''What's your sign?'' perhaps ICEBREAKER
''___ was saying ...'' ASI
A few laughs HAHAS
Acetate, alcohol, bromide and ether ETHYLS
Achieve ATTAIN
Aircraft inspector, of a sort TESTPILOT
Alphabetic quintet AEIOU
Anglers' gear REELS
Apple variety GRANNYSMITH
Archer's gear BOWANDARROW
Archibald of basketball NATE
Atlantic City casino, informally (with ''The'') TAJ
Be overly fond DOTE
Beanie's buddy CECIL
Bit of ointment DAB
Blonde shade ASH
Bok ___ (Chinese vegetable) CHOY
Bring about by force COERCE
Brit. word book OED
Burdensome possession WHITEELEPHANT
Burn the surface SEAR
Business phase CYCLE
Buzzi and Westheimer RUTHS
Cabinet filler CHINA
Cable station since '72 HBO
Cairo waterway NILE
Capone's feature SCAR
Carrier of genetic info DNA
Certain Middle East denizen ARAB
Check the books AUDIT
Checked out, as a joint CASED
Christogram component, perhaps RHO
Committee type ADHOC
Common file name MISC
Companion of cry HUE
Completely INTOTO
Concerned with a specific subject ADHOC
Concession stand drink COLA
Corrodes EATS
Dorothy Lamour film, ''___ Merry Way'' ONOUR
Dwarf in ''The Hobbit'' ORI
East Indian sailor LASCAR
Engage, as gears MESH
Entangle SNARL
Estranges ALIENATES
Expression of disgust YUCK
Feathery wrap BOA
Fem.'s opposite MASC
Flies off the shelf SELLS
Floor or ceiling supports JOISTS
Flue befouler SOOT
Flying Brits RAF
Forever, to Shelley ETERNE
Form of identification THUMBPRINT
Full house sign (Abbr.) SRO
Get the gold WIN
Go ___ for (defend) TOBAT
Graceful woman SYLPH
Greek goddess of wisdom ATHENA
Grizzled HOARY
Groucho's brother CHICO
Half a bray HEE
Hawthorne's hometown SALEM
Hiding place CACHE
Honor society letter PHI
Hood and Shasta (Abbr.) MTS
How haunted houses are lit DIMLY
Hypothetical legal case MOOT
Important historic times ERAS
Clues Answers
Indigenous ENDEMIC
Instruct TEACH
Intention AIM
Investigate thoroughly RESEARCH
Is vanquished by LOSESTO
It goes with tails TOPHAT
John Wooden's basketball power UCLA
Lawn makeup SOD
Les Etats --- UNIS
Lip-___ (mouth the words) SYNC
Lipstick mishap SMEAR
Little bits IOTAS
Liz Lemon portrayer FEY
Loafer, e.g. SLIPONSHOE
Map abbreviation RTE
Milne's bear POOH
Moved right, on a typewriter TABBED
Mr. Moto remark AHSO
Not out of the question PLAUSIBLE
Note in solfege SOL
Notice ESPY
Nuts and bolts, e.g. HARDWARE
NYPD rank DET
Old Russian leader CZAR
One or the other EITHER
One should have three a day SQUAREMEALS
Oscar and Obie AWARDS
Part of ASAP SOON
Pasture girls EWES
Patrick of ''The Avengers'' MACNEE
Pierce Brosnan TV role STEELE
Pirouette SPIN
Piz Bernina, for one ALP
Poetic time of day EEN
Pronouncement from Bill the Cat ACK
Psychologist Alfred ADLER
Puff was a magic one DRAGON
Queen Elizabeth II's home WINDSORCASTLE
Quickie exam QUIZ
Rainer of ''The Great Ziegfeld'' LUISE
Razor sharpeners STROPS
Rice-A-___ RONI
Roger Rabbit and friends TOONS
Runner Sebastian COE
Scandinavian rug RYA
Scotch partner SODA
Sgt. maj. and others NCOS
Siouan speaker OTO
Skier's transport TRAM
Skip and jump preceder HOP
Slangy hello HIYA
Slovenly person SLOB
Snakelike fish EEL
Some green veggies STRINGBEANS
Spanish 101 word ESTA
Spillane's ''--- Jury'' ITHE
Stag ALONE
Stimpy's pal REN
Subject of many a toast HEALTH
Suffers from an insect bite ITCHES
Symphonic silence symbol REST
Tempests in teapots ADOS
Theme of this puzzle KNOTS
They're elitists and they know it SNOBS
Thirds of thirds NINTHS
Threesome, like a chord TRIAD
Troubadour's songs LAIS
Unbeatable serve ACE
Understandings of others' situations EMPATHIES
Use one's thumb HITCHARIDE
Vacuum feature HOSE
Villa d'--- ESTE
Warbucks' ward ANNIE
What a matador likes to hear OLE
What a mug might hold GAT
Where Heston acts as pres. NRA
Word with hand and panned OUT