Universal - Dec 12 2003

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Clues Answers
"... 'Cause I ___ me spinach, I'm Popeye ..." EATS
"After a while" NOTRIGHTNOW
"Hold on" JUSTAMINUTE
"I'm listening" GOON
"Native ___" SON
"Oh, what's the ___?" USE
"Olympia" painter Idouard MANET
"Venus de ___" MILO
''Au contraire!'' in the 1990s NOT
''Key ___'' (Bogart/Bacall film) LARGO
''No ifs, ___ or ...'' ANDS
''___ With Me'' (popular hymn) ABIDE
10 to 20? HALF
A Bobbsey twin NAN
Absolutely first-rate AONE
Accolades KUDOS
Actor Penn SEAN
Actor's part ROLE
Album that preceded ''Britney'' OOPSIDIDITAGAIN
Almanac info DATES
Annoying night noise SNORE
Bachelor's last words IDO
Beaded calculators ABACI
Bearing freight LADEN
Bee house APIARY
Bells' sound PEAL
Blazed the trail LED
Blogger's tirade RANT
Boxing boundary BELT
Cain's victim ABEL
Camera type, for short SLR
Capacious ROOMY
Capital of Morocco RABAT
Caribbean isle ARUBA
Catherine ___ (Henry VIII's sixth wife) PARR
Chamber to bake in OVEN
Chronology of events ANNALS
Complimentary FREE
Computer input DATA
Daisy-like flower ASTER
Decent chaps GENTS
Delaying excuse DONTHAVETIME
Diner sign OPEN
Directly in front AHEAD
Drained river area BASIN
Drinking mug in the shape of a man TOBYJUG
Drop one's jaw GAPE
Dug for diamonds MINED
Entire range GAMUT
Eyeglass frames RIMS
Famous Fibber MCGEE
Feast celebrating the Exodus SEDER
Female gametes OVA
First name on the moon NEIL
Flora's companion FAUNA
Four Tops hit of 1965 ICANTHELPMYSELF
Gain access to GETAT
Gallop or canter GAIT
Gave out, as a battery DIED
George Jetson's son ELROY
Geraldine's claim (with ''the'') DEVILMADEMEDOIT
German carmaker Fritz OPEL
Give one's assent SAYYES
Glittered SHONE
Hanging on to KEEPING
Hanoi celebration TET
Harder to find RARER
Hoover, for one DAM
How some like it HOT
Impolite RUDE
In reserve ONICE
Issue EDITION
It was dropped at Woodstock ACID
Lacking value NIL
Leafy green vegetable CRESS
Legal thing RES
Letters near 7, on some old phones PRS
List-shortening abbreviation ETAL
Clues Answers
Looks over EYEBALLS
Mai ___ TAI
Makes reference to CITES
Makes reference to CITES
Male swan COB
Marshmallow roasters CAMPFIRES
Matter or hero prefix ANTI
Melodic tune AIR
Metric quart, approximately LITER
Michael Keaton role MRMOM
Morn's opposite EVE
Mountain air? YODEL
Musical talent EAR
Near-perfect ratings NINES
Neighborhood get-together BLOCKPARTY
Not spotted UNNOTICED
Novel by Hailey HOTEL
One of the Cyclades IOS
Operatic 1987 movie ARIA
Opposite of baja ALTA
Orderly NEAT
OSS follower CIA
Peace emblem DOVE
Period in history ERA
Persona non ___ GRATA
Ph.D. exam ORAL
Plane's parking place APRON
Poker pile POT
Prefix meaning ''bone'' OSTEO
Prefix with realism NEO
Prickly seed vessel (Var.) BUR
Procrastinator's claim ILLDOITLATER
Pulver's rank (Abbr.) ENS
Rather and Brokaw, e.g. NEWSMEN
Rebounds, e.g. STAT
Relating to the ear OTIC
Retirement accts. IRAS
Routine task CHORE
Same as always USUAL
Sante Fe and Amtrak RAILROADS
Scottish tartan pattern SETT
Sneak a look at PEEK
Some counting units TOES
Some surreal paintings DALIS
Squad TEAM
Star in Orion RIGEL
Star of heat and light SUN
State flower of New Mexico YUCCA
State with confidence AVER
Stood AROSE
Storybook meanie OGRE
Stream with far-reaching effects TIDALRIVER
Super finish? IOR
Superman's sandwich? HERO
Syllable for marching HUT
Telegraphic signal DOT
The ''S'' in RSVP SIL
Thespian Bernhardt SARAH
They may be fine or graphic ARTS
They're not in your favor in Reno ODDS
Three Gorges project DAM
Together, in music ADUE
TV police FCC
Uncompromising one HARDLINER
Urgent request BEHEST
Variety of pea or bean SNAP
Wall St. regulator SEC
Wash away, as soil ERODE
Watchtower guard SENTINEL
Weight lifter's pride, in slang BOD
What the rich live in? STYLE
What to see in your Chevrolet USA
Where the serpent prevailed EDEN
Woods unit TREE
Word on the society page NEE
Zeta's follower ETA
___ a beet REDAS
___ jaw (pug's liability) GLASS