USA Today - Aug 7 2003

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Clues Answers
"Excelsior," to New York MOTTO
"Maria ___" ELENA
"The Dukes of Hazzard" character ENOS
"Yeah" antonym NAW
''Stop, horse!'' WHOA
19th century advice GOWESTYOUNGMAN
A puppy does it NIPS
Abe's boy TAD
Active volcano, e.g. SPEWER
Actor's implements PROPS
Algerian port ORAN
All of us EVERYONE
All-American Soap Box Derby site AKRON
Annoyances RUBS
Auction amounts BIDS
Bannister terminal NEWEL
Bath beverage ALE
Betroth ENGAGE
Big wheel's wheels ROLLS
Bishop's jurisdiction SEE
Black, poetically EBON
Bonaparte's imposed retreat ELBA
Brand name with Rice or Wheat CHEX
Brownstone fixtures STOOPS
Buck chaser AROO
Cajun vegetable OKRA
Candidate's throw-in HAT
Casino gratuity TOKE
Casual clothes SWEATS
Cathedral relic ICON
Cattle-drive grub dispenser CHUCKWAGON
Cavalry bugle call BOOTSANDSADDLES
Cayuse accessory REIN
City slicker DRUGSTORECOWBOY
Climber's challenge CRAG
Clockmaker Thomas SETH
Command to Sweet Charlotte HUSH
Concerning the kidneys RENAL
Could really use NEED
Course climax EXAM
Court partition NET
Crack pilot ACE
Curative place SPA
Dentist's instruction, sometimes WIDER
Deplete DRAIN
Didn't junk RECYCLED
Do another hitch REUP
Editor's instruction, perhaps STET
Elective offices SEATS
Extra SPARE
Fall through the cracks? SEEP
Felix's foil OSCAR
First woman attorney general RENO
Flash of light GLEAM
Floor AMAZE
Floral setting GARDEN
Forty-niner's dream LODE
Fossil-rich desert GOBI
Frequent oater character SCHOOLMARM
Frodo's friend SAM
Golf's "Slammin' Sam" SNEAD
Granny Smith's heart CORE
Great fuss STINK
Group of turtles BALE
Guadalajara gold ORO
Historic theater chain LOEWS
History 101 subjects ERAS
Homeland? ACRE
Icelandic reading EDDA
Infantile statement GOO
Is parental REARS
It might have a window ENVELOPE
It's stepped on PATH
Land for development TRACT
Laptop command ENTER
Like London in 1666 AFIRE
Like some deals RAW
Long-armed swinger ORANG
Clues Answers
Longtime Presidente PERON
Love handle? HONEY
Low marshy area SWALE
Mexicali month ENERO
Mexican stew or jar OLLA
Moon conqueror NASA
Motherless calf DOGIE
Musical piece with a repeated theme RONDO
Napoleon III's Waterloo SEDAN
Norse Zeus ODIN
Not as loopy SANER
Noted Christian DIOR
One of 825,000 on the King Ranch ACRE
One of us HUMAN
Optimistic emotion HOPE
Perimeters EDGES
Photographer's setting AUTO
Place to wallow MIRE
Ply with wine BESOT
Pool or wave TIDAL
Potable of the gods NECTAR
Potpourri characteristic AROMA
Pre-1917 despots CZARS
Promised emphatically SWORE
Ran like the wind TORE
Rapping Dogg SNOOP
River through France YSER
River through Nubia NILE
Rookery sound CAW
Santa ___, California ANA
Sari-clad royal RANI
Saturn's daughter CERES
Service approval AMEN
Shaped by chopping HEWN
Shell of a wreck HULK
Showy annual MARIGOLD
Sit-in alternative MARCH
Skipjack relative TUNA
Small cut SNIP
Soapstone ingredient TALC
Some builders build on it SPEC
Some income, briefly INT
Some stuffed bears POOHS
Soup spheroid PEA
Space-saving abbr. ETAL
Spartan serfs HELOTS
Spin like ___ ATOP
Split for the sole purpose of uniting? ELOPE
Stentorian LOUD
Strange sightings UFOS
Studio head, e.g. TSAR
Subjects of clashes EGOS
Substitute spread OLEO
Tepee? HOMEONTHERANGE
The Prado hung him GOYA
The range, to some HOME
They have duel purposes SWORDS
This puzzle's theme COWBOYLINGO
Tipper's needs, perhaps ONES
Totally lost ASEA
Trip odometer control RESET
TV network PBS
Two-by-four, e.g. AREA
Type of button RESET
Unkempt state MESS
URL suffix COM
Very old paint, e.g. NAG
View from Notre Dame SEINE
Weapon in an oater, informally SHOOTINIRON
Western interjection YAHOO
What a brave face is sometimes ACT
Wherefores partners WHYS
Word with something, anything or what ELSE
Word with wing or life SPAN
Workers' watchdog grp. OSHA
Writing shortcut ETC
___ B'rith BNAI
___ gratias DEO