USA Today - Sep 17 2003

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Clues Answers
"Civil Disobedience" author THOREAU
"Evita" role CHE
"Gotta be going!" TATA
"I don't think so!" NOPE
"Oh my!" GEE
"Picnic" playwright INGE
''A Christmas Carol'' exclamation BAH
''A mouse!'' EEK
''American Idol'' participant, e.g. ENTRANT
''Are We Done ___?'' YET
''Fine'' studies ARTS
''Just think'' IMAGINE
''Puttin' on the ___'' RITZ
''The Lion King'' hero SIMBA
''Waking ___ Devine'' NED
''___ you sure?'' ARE
1990s Chevy model LUMINA
9-mm submachine gun UZI
Aboard the QE2 ASEA
Absorb SOPUP
Accomplished DID
Actress Loren SOPHIA
Actress Skye IONE
After-dinner server URN
Air woe watched by the EPA SMOG
Alexandra, for one EMPRESS
American Indians of Canada CREES
Animal welfare org. SPCA
Annoyance PEEVE
Arctic landscape ICE
Arrange for the orchestra SCORE
Artist Chagall MARC
Athens square AGORA
Baseball ploy involving a bunt SQUEEZEPLAY
Be a mole SPY
Bear spot DEN
Beatitudes verb ARE
Believes DEEMS
Big sandwich HERO
Bird from Down Under EMU
Birdbrains DOPES
Blade of yore SNEE
Blender button PUREE
Body of principles ETHIC
Bottle-uncorking sound POP
Breach GAP
Breakaway groups SECTS
Broadcasting ONAIR
Broadway offering PLAY
Builder's purchase SITE
Bull's weapon HORN
Bush v. Gore matters CHADS
Cancel, as a launch SCRUB
Cat's weapon CLAW
Catches, as a show SEES
Certain Beehive State athlete UTE
Child, affectionately KIDDO
Choreographer's specialty STEPS
Classic Olivier role HAMLET
Clergyman CURATE
Climber's challenge ALP
Cloaked HID
Congress-thwarting move VETO
Consents AGREES
Country getaway INN
Cower CRINGE
Cozy spots NESTS
Crummy date BOOR
DA's interest DNA
Deliver from a dais ORATE
Den mother? LION
Doctors' requests AHS
Duped HAD
Early sun-worshipper INCA
Easily annoyed TESTY
Electronics giant RCA
Eleniak of "Baywatch" ERIKA
Emerald, for one BERYL
Emma's father on "Friends" ROSS
End of the truism THANGOINGIN
Exemplar of craziness LOON
Exerting control CRACKINGTHEWHIP
Exorbitant, as prices STEEP
Explanations for some shots CAPTIONS
Express relief SIGH
Fall bloom MUM
Far from clumsy ADEPT
Fastener SNAP
Fire sign? SMOKE
Fleischer and Onassis ARIS
Fliers' requirements IDS
Floor saver DOORMAT
Flubs ERRS
Flying maneuver LOOP
Four musical Swedes ABBA
Four-stringed instrument UKE
Gladiator's stage ARENA
Go down in defeat BITETHEDUST
Goes bad ROTS
Goes for the gold MINES
Good examples ROLEMODELS
Gracefully delicate DAINTY
H.H. Munro's pen name SAKI
Hair product GEL
Has in hand OWNS
Health facility CLINIC
Hodgepodge OLIO
Home for Big Bird PBS
Hooligans THUGS
Illumined LIT
In a bumbling manner INEPTLY
In shape TRIM
In ___ of LIEU
Individual effort SOLO
Islands fare POI
It comes with a proposal RING
It takes the cake OVEN
It takes two to . . . DOTHETANGO
Clues Answers
Italian Renaissance poet TASSO
Jacket with a mandarin collar NEHRU
Jamaican pop music SKA
Jerks YANKS
Jeweler's weight CARAT
K-___ (big name in compilations) TEL
Keep from going too far NIPINTHEBUD
Kind of tea HERBAL
Kind of deck POOP
Kind of stock NOPAR
Lacking the wherewithal UNABLE
Lamb order RACK
Leader who spent 15 years in the KGB PUTIN
Let stand, to Ochs STET
Liqueur enhancer ANISE
Longings YENS
Lovers' liaison TRYST
Make a case PLEAD
Make short cuts SNIP
Making petty distinctions SPLITTINGHAIRS
Merman of Broadway fame ETHEL
Michael Jackson's ratty hit BEN
Mine, in Marseilles AMOI
Moola GELT
Muscat's country OMAN
Neck piece? NAPE
Needing money SHORT
Nielsen ratings unit VIEWER
Nitwit BOOB
Not as costly CHEAPER
Old man DAD
One who'll go to bat for you? PINCHHITTER
Ordinal ending ETH
Part 2 of the truism SUREHURTSALOT
Part 3 of the truism MORECOMINGOUT
Penn's pal TELLER
Personality elements EGOS
Peter Fonda role ULEE
Phalanx locale TOE
Pink, so to speak RARE
Pisa dough, once LIRA
Place for pins MAT
Pouchlike parts SACS
Property tax target OWNER
Protective layer OZONE
Pueblo Indian HOPI
Punjab's friend ANNIE
Pussyfooted CREPT
Quaffer's order ALE
Quibble CAVIL
Recoils SHIES
Reddish gem GARNET
Reel thing MOVIE
Reinterpret, in a way SPIN
Release LETGO
Remark from Eeyore HEEHAW
Rep. of some Arabs PLO
Revolutionary Allen ETHAN
River formation DELTA
Rocky riches ORE
Runs in place? IDLES
Safe conversation topic WEATHER
Salad topper RANCH
Seat of a religious office SEE
Secret motive ANGLE
Shalom PEACE
Shaper in a shop LATHE
Sharp-witted KEEN
Show up APPEAR
Showoff HAM
Side dish COLESLAW
Silvery gray ASH
Sine-non connector QUA
Sir or madam TITLE
Skinned PARED
Sledding spot HILL
Smart ___ ALECK
Solicitous attention, briefly TLC
Some go under the chin STRAPS
Son of Odin THOR
Songwriter Leonard or skater Sasha COHEN
Sports competitions OPENS
Spreadsheet divisions ROWS
Stalemate TIE
Start of a truism about romance CUPIDSARROW
Subway alternative CAB
Suffix with Japan or Sudan ESE
Take quite a look OGLE
Take up, maybe HEM
They may be overhead CAMS
Ticked and then some IRATE
Tizzy SNIT
Tommy takes two EMS
Totally absurd INANE
Toughness GRIT
Tractor attachment PLOW
Trademark emblems LOGOS
Tribal wisdom LORE
Trophy handle EAR
Tropical affliction AGUE
Type of man YES
UN advocate for workers ILO
Univ. higher-ups SRS
Use for dinner, as china EATON
Very sophisticated URBANE
Vienna-to-Rome dir. SSW
Virgin of Koranic paradise HOURI
Walking enthusiast HIKER
Welcoming a stranger BREAKINGTHEICE
Went all out TRIED
Wimple wearers NUNS
Winebibber SOT
With-it HEP
Won ___ (Chinese dumpling) TON
Work at lacemaking, in a way TAT
Wrecks a clunker TOTALS
Zodiac leader ARIES
___ time (never) ATNO