USA Today - Dec 29 2003

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Clues Answers
"Defense of Fort M'Henry" author KEY
"How I Spent My Summer Vacation" e.g. ESSAY
"I won't hear of it!" DONTEVENGOTHERE
"Never!" NOWAYINTHEWORLD
"Not a chance!" AINTGONNAHAPPEN
Accolade AWARD
Amount to be raised, perhaps ANTE
Beige shade BONE
Brawny in manner MACHO
Break into smithereens SMASH
Brits' raincoats MACS
California's first lady MARIA
Can't pay up OWES
Castle fortifications MOATS
Celestial hunter ORION
Chug-a-lug GULP
Class fool DUNCE
Collars NABS
Conversation piece? PHONE
Critical shortage NEED
Cry of discovery OHO
Current UPON
Deli fare HERO
Devout insect? MANTIS
Distress signal MAYDAY
Drunk's tipoff SLUR
Fencing equipment EPEE
Fourth Estate MEDIA
Foxy adjective SLY
Goodman or Hill BENNY
Grammy winner Fitzgerald ELLA
Gutter site EAVE
Hounded RODE
Hunted down PREYED
In a feeble way WANLY
Israel's Sharon ARIEL
Ladd or Arkin ALAN
Land of the Rising Sun JAPAN
Little grimace MOUE
Clues Answers
Lockbox document DEED
Lose traction SKID
Margot Fonteyn's title DAME
Master LEARN
Military cap KEPI
Misbehave ACTUP
Muscat native OMANI
Nincompoop NINNY
Old hand PRO
One of a one-two, sometimes JAB
One of a pair MATE
Oodles PLENTY
Oracle's sign OMEN
Overtakes, in a way LAPS
Pizzazz OOMPH
Promote aggressively HYPE
Roster listing NAME
Salon treatment TINT
Sanction ALLOW
Schedule PLAN
Seat's most exciting part? EDGE
Shipboard shout AHOY
Small fries TOTS
Some folding money TENS
Spitballs, structurally WADS
Squealed SANG
Stave off AVERT
Table extensions LEAVES
Tiny flier GNAT
Took to court SUED
Type of cat ALLEY
When doubled, it may sandwich "oh" MAN
Winter Olympics sport LUGE
Word of woe ALAS
Word with curtain or lung IRON
Word with in, up or down SHUT
Wrap in a bandage SWATHE
You, to King James THOU
___ out (barely coping) EKING