Universal - Sep 12 2002

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Clues Answers
"Copacabana" showgirl LOLA
"Not ___ many words" INSO
"Uncle!" LETGO
"___ out?" (dealer's query) INOR
''---! The herald ...'' HARK
''Angel'' Cameron DIAZ
''Let ___'' (Beatles) ITBE
''Mazel tov!'' CONGRATULATIONS
''Showboat'' author Ferber EDNA
''Super!'' NEATO
''The Last Judgment'' chapel SISTINE
''___ dry eye in the house'' NOTA
''___ of Athens'' (Shakespeare) TIMON
''___ Town'' (Thornton Wilder) OUR
--- Domingo SANTO
1992 Nicholson role HOFFA
1998 headline event in India NTEST
A pop EACH
A state ALABAMA
A state ARIZONA
Alan Ladd classic SHANE
Animated Disney villain SCAR
Appellation for Theda Bara VAMP
Apple or pear POME
Appointed CHOSEN
Arm's length REACH
Asian mammals PANDAS
Assembly line grp. UAW
Assures, in slang ICES
Auspicious RIPE
Baseball team or innings ENNEAD
Be seen among moguls SKI
Boredom ENNUI
Brain-teasers CONUNDRUMS
Brewery supply HOPS
Broadcasting sign ONAIR
Broke bread ATE
Cambodia neighbor LAOS
Campaign contributor, briefly PAC
Candid OPEN
Capital founded by Roger Williams PROVIDENCE
Cherished LOVED
Chicago's central business district LOOP
Chopin piece ETUDE
Circular current EDDY
Classify ASSORT
Columbus' birthplace GENOA
Compass heading ENE
Compensate REPAY
Construction locale SITE
Construction superintendent's nightmare PROJECTCONFLICT
Contents of some urns ASHES
Cunctation PROCRASTINATION
Current choice ACDC
Current wizard TESLA
Customary function ROLE
Davis Cup player Nastase ILIE
Dear partner? NEAR
Delicate color variations TINTS
Delineated DREW
Depp role EDWOOD
Desktop symbol ICON
Dial opener? SUN
Disappear gradually ERODE
Doctor repellent? APPLE
Draw in LURE
Dropped leaflets, perhaps PROPAGANDA
End of many sanctuaries APSE
Enthusiast NUT
Ex-speaker's name NEWT
Extremely long time frames EONS
Face-to-face exam ORAL
Fancy shmancy pitchers EWERS
Far East housemaid AMAH
Feldman of "Stand By Me" COREY
Flop out of Detroit EDSEL
Fonda-Sutherland film KLUTE
Friendly WARM
Frodo's burden RING
From now on EVER
Fuel tanker OILER
Full of frills LACY
Gas for a Broadway ad NEON
Gas that's hard to ignore NEON
Gator cousin CROC
Genetic material DNA
German expletive ACH
Get melodramatic EMOTE
Gifted child's performance, perhaps PRODIGYSCONCERT
Give a hand? DEAL
Glass squares PANES
Glaswegian headgear TAMS
Good roll, for starters SEVEN
Grain storage locale SILO
Gull's cousin TERN
Halftime destination, often CONCESSIONSTAND
High regard ESTEEM
Hombre's dwelling CASA
Huff SNIT
Imbibe, ''Animal House'' style CHUG
In ___ (sequential) AROW
Indian title of respect SRI
It goes in a setting GEM
It has a wet floor SEA
It has solar heating PLANET
It lands the first punch FIST
It's a lifesaver NET
It's a reel place PROJECTIONBOOTH
Jelly ingredient PECTIN
Keyboard composition TOCCATA
Kill bill? VETO
Kind of bikini STRING
King's proclamation EDICT
Kingdom REALM
Krugerrand measure KARAT
Landfill problem ODOR
Last epoch of the Tertiary period PLIOCENE
Clues Answers
Lead the nomad's life ROVE
Libertine's opposite PRIG
Like a wet noodle LIMP
Like neon INERT
Like some expensive communities GATED
Made cheddar better AGED
Mafia bigwigs DONS
Maintain KEEP
Mexican peninsula BAJA
Mischievous caper DIDO
Montana or Namath JOE
More malleable SOFTER
More tied up in knots TENSER
Mowed strip, e.g. SWATH
Muscat's milieu OMAN
Mythical Hades River of Forgetfulness LETHE
Mythical monsters ORCS
NASA thumbs-up AOK
Neglect to mention OMIT
Neighbor of Afghanistan IRAN
Nimbus AURA
Occasion at hand NONCE
Officials with pull right now INS
Ogles EYESUP
Olfactory offense ODOR
Oliver Twist's request MORE
On --- (counting calories) ADIET
On a roll HOT
On the briny ASEA
One of Chekhov's ''Three Sisters'' OLGA
Part of a low straight TREY
Part of a magician's starting word ABRA
Pennsylvania harbor city ERIE
Perrier rival EVIAN
Photographer's cover? LENSHOOD
Physical opening? META
Picasso's years ANOS
Play reveille ROUSE
Plug in the mouth CHAW
Poacher's needs? EGGS
Poet of Rome's Golden Age OVID
Pool growths ALGAE
Prefix for China INDO
Prepare tea BREW
Prevarication LIE
Private preceptor TUTOR
Problem for an oculist STYE
Put the sword away SHEATHE
Quirky ODD
Ready for use ONTAP
Resides LIVES
Resort in the Ardennes SPA
Result of plotters' get-together CONSPIRACY
Ripken, the Baltimore legend CAL
Roman despot NERO
Rug coverage AREA
Salami city GENOA
Screwdriver component VODKA
See 35-Across AND
See 35-Across CON
Sheltered spot COVE
Single item UNIT
Six-Day War battleground SINAI
Smashing subject ATOM
Some children SONS
Some deer ROES
Some Spanish replies SIS
Sonata finale CODA
Song sung by Carmen HABANERA
Sounds of disgust UGHS
Source of misery BANE
Spanish aunt TIA
Speed of sound measure MACH
Star of the rotation ACE
Start of a Donne quote NOMAN
State AVER
Stolen HOT
Swallow greedily GULP
Swenson of ''Benson'' INGA
Takes it easy RESTS
Tang anagram GNAT
Te Kanawa rendition ARIA
Tease mercilessly RIDE
They grow when fertilized OVA
They may pass in the night SHIPS
This could get you a "TV-MA" rating PROGRAMCONTENTS
This puzzle's theme (with 41- and 46-Across) PRO
Thread unit SPOOL
Three trios NONET
Tool repository SHED
Two of all fours ARMS
Type of cracker ANIMAL
Type of sauce SOY
Tyrannous type DESPOT
Units of concern to nuclear scientists REMS
University of Maine location ORONO
Unspoken TACIT
Urbane fellow GENT
Vicar of Christ POPE
Walk nervously PACE
Wart cause, in folklore TOAD
Weariness FATIGUE
Wedding shower? RICE
Wisecrack JEST
Woman treated as an object? HER
Women are their obsessions DONJUANS
Word of hearty concurrence AMEN
Word with automobile or role MODEL
Word with bike or boat MOTOR
Word with high or deep KNEE
Word with tag or booth PHONE
Words before time or another? ATONE
Words with live or give ITUP
Workshop device CLAMP
World book ATLAS
XXXXX, to the Greeks CHIS
Year, in 39-Down ANO