Universal - Aug 24 2002

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Clues Answers
''--- please the court...'' IFIT
--- gin SLOE
Atmospheric layer OZONE
Attention-getter PSST
Baby's first word, perhaps MAMA
Balm ingredient ALOE
Basketball legend Baylor ELGIN
Beginnings ONSETS
Bill in Washington? GATES
Biscuitlike pastry SCONE
Carnival tune LILT
Cauliflower relative BROCCOLI
Chowder or bisque SOUP
Close friend PAL
Did a gardening job HOED
Discourteous RUDE
End of the news, often RECAP
Enhance, in a way ADORN
Entertainer Wilson FLIP
Evidence of sadness TEARDROP
Famous Irish theater ABBEY
Fixes a shoelace RETIES
Hackneyed, as a joke TIRED
Halloween covering MASK
Iacocca and Harper LEES
Inspiration IDEA
It has two pieces, top and bottom BIKINI
It may be used for pins and needles ETUI
It may have a reservation TRIBE
It precedes febrero ENERO
Kennel sounds YIPS
Kitchen fixture RANGE
Lab work TESTS
Leaves in a hurry HIES
Liquid sediment DREG
Martin comedy partner LEWIS
Mottled horse PINTO
Name of Norwegian kings OLAF
Narrow winning margin EDGE
Clues Answers
Nevada city west of Ogden ELKO
Nevada resort site TAHOE
Participates in a bee SPELLS
Passover meal SEDER
Patricia, who co-starred in ''Hud'' NEAL
Pavarotti performances SOLI
Per EACH
Poetic contraction EER
Ref's diamond counterpart UMP
Reunion attendee, for short ALUM
Salamanders EFTS
Scamps BRATS
See 17-Across NOWBRINGITINAND
See 17-Across LETUSDOOURSTUFF
Settles a debt PAYS
Shakespearean ''Bummer!'' ALAS
Shelley output ODE
Show parts ACTS
Slowly sinks, as the sun SETS
Small denomination SECT
Soak a fiber RET
Star of ''Sex, Lies, and Videotape'' SPADER
Stars that increase in brightness, then fade NOVAE
Steamed SORE
Swiss canton at one end of St. Gotthard Pass URI
Tank opening? SEPTIC
Term of affection DEARIE
They may work in a shoe department SIZERS
Threefold TRINE
Use deles and stets EDIT
Use the salsa again REDIP
Weasel out of EVADE
West of Hollywood MAE
Winged ALAR
With 41- and 65-Across, taxidermist's sign YOUSHOTTHEBEAST
With pretentious display ARTY
Wooded valley DELL
Word on an Irish postage stamp EIRE
Word with blue or high SKY