USA Today - Oct 17 2008

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Clues Answers
''Be ___ . . .'' (start of a request) ADEAR
''Hulk'' director Lee ANG
''I'll bet!'' HAH
''Kid-Tested, Mother-Approved!'' cereal KIX
''Sudan'' suffix ESE
''The Chronicles of Narnia'' lion ASLAN
''Well, here goes . . .'' ILLTRY
1-800-FLOWERS rival FTD
25 percent of DCIV CLI
A few bricks shy of a load DENSE
A few bucks at Pimlico BET
A little butter? KID
A pocketful, in rhyme RYE
Aerodynamic SLEEK
Blue shoe material SUEDE
Body shape FIGURE
Brutus Buckeye sch. OSU
Certain gold statuette OSCAR
Come next ENSUE
Cookie crock JAR
Cost of a thought? PENNY
Craving more attention NEEDIER
Date on a penny YEAR
Disc you whisk FRISBEE
Dragging behind INTOW
Eagle, Falcon or Raven, briefly NFLER
Early mode of transportation TRIKE
Edinburgh boy LAD
Elaborate Japanese drama KABUKI
Emulate a peacock STRUT
Encumber (with ''down'') BOG
Engraved pillar (Var.) STELA
Galilee, e.g. SEA
Gandhi's garb DHOTI
How some go it ALONE
Imposed a levy on TAXED
Kathryn of ''Law and Order: Criminal Intent'' ERBE
Kukla and Fran's pal OLLIE
LAPD part LOS
Clues Answers
Lightweight reporting FLUFF
Like a polar drudge ELFIN
Make a collar NAB
Manage to get (with ''out'') EKE
Media initials since 1980 CNN
Members of the jury PEERS
Metric mi. KIL
New enlistee RECRUIT
On one's toes ALERT
Part of a maison SALLE
Place for a hole in a sock TOE
Practitioners' suffix ISTS
Prepare to drive TEEUP
Properly nourished WELLFED
QB protectors LGS
Regular employment FULLTIMEJOB
Rip off at the register SHORTCHANGE
Rocky crags TORS
Role for Clark RHETT
Ruling bodies REGIMES
Satirist Mort SAHL
Shakespearean character in a Millais painting OPHELIA
Signs of audience disapproval HISSES
Sister of Urania ERATO
Soar GLIDE
Straw, to a camel? BACKBREAKER
Sweetened, in a way SUGARED
Symbol before the key signature CLEF
That Geller feller URI
The woman of ''Woman'' ONO
Type of proprietor SOLE
Underlings of a capt. LTS
Video game heroine Croft LARA
Well-used itinerary BUSSCHEDULE
Winter bug FLU
Wipe, as a blackboard ERASE
Word with ''pro'' or ''purpose'' ALL
Wouldn't shut up RANON
Yertle and Lorax creator DRSEUSS