USA Today - Oct 10 2003

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Clues Answers
"Beer Barrel," for one POLKA
"Mefistofele" role ELENA
"Picnic" playwright INGE
About the city URBAN
Advisories ALERTS
And others (Lat) ETAL
Be compatible JIBE
Bed cover QUILT
Benumb DEADEN
Black out while being crooned SWOON
Black, in verse EBON
Carter of "Ain't Misbehavin"' NELL
Cerebellum section LOBE
Con ___ (vivaciously) BRIO
Consumer advocate Ralph NADER
Controversial wrinkle remover BOTOX
Dawdle LOLL
Directly in front AHEAD
Europe-Asia dividing range URAL
Eye needed in a "Macbeth" recipe NEWT
Finito DONE
Frazier of boxing JOE
Freight car hopper, stereotypically HOBO
Freight train unit BOXCAR
Game usually played with 32 cards EUCHRE
Grape residue MARC
Gyrocompass component ROTOR
Hack pack members CABS
Having the necessary skill ABLE
Homeboy PAL
Hybrid garment for women SKORT
Ice measure CUBE
Internet letters URL
Isn't plural ARENT
Jam-spread sponge cake TRIFLE
Kingly REGAL
Kooky comic Philips EMO
Large, swift mackerel WAHOO
Leaf used for writing paper OLLA
Clues Answers
Led Zeppelin's genre ROCK
Like a fashionable arrival, in some circles LATE
Like some routes SCENIC
Match, as a raise SEE
Mature insect IMAGO
Meadow murmurs BAAS
Moses' spy CALEB
Not for delicate ears RISQUE
Old adders ABACI
Ones of a kind? ACES
Part of a convoy SEMI
Pearl Buck's star OLAN
Petri-dish stuff AGAR
Pleasure boat SLOOP
Pre-1917 autocrats TSARS
Prepare a present WRAP
Pulls back EBBS
Puzo or Cuomo MARIO
Question spoken into a cell phone CANYOUHEARMENOW
Question that signals a missing person alert WHERESWALDO
Reason for a backrub ACHE
Routine question? WHOSONFIRST
Santa Anna took it ALAMO
Schedule opening SLOT
Severe test ORDEAL
Sicilian hot spot ETNA
Skin-soothing ingredient ALOE
Soak up some sun BASK
Start of a Horatio Alger plot RAGS
Ta-ta in Turin CIAO
The Last of the Mohicans UNCAS
Therefore ERGO
Trawlers' gear NETS
Tunes for two DUETS
Two-nation peninsula IBERIA
Type of acid AMINO
Undergrad degs. BAS
Western backdrop CANYON
Wind in a pit OBOE