Universal - Jan 4 2004

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Clues Answers
"Rikki-Tikki-___" TAVI
"So be it" AMEN
"That's strange" ODD
"___ again ..." THEN
A Stooge SHEMP
Adamant ant? PEST
Blender setting PUREE
Brain trust offering IDEA
Bridge ancestor WHIST
Carafe size, perhaps LITER
Corn core COB
Cousteau's milieu SEA
Delineated DREW
Dinette set spot ALCOVE
Dressed to the ___ NINES
Exceptionally early PRECOCIOUS
Extend Time RENEW
Famous password OPENSESAME
Four years, maybe TERM
Gambling wager BET
Gather wool SHEAR
Global cartographer's oxymoron WHOLEHEMISPHERE
Good Book BIBLE
Hammett's terrier ASTA
Heavenly glow AURA
It could get you down? EIDER
It may run in a bar TAB
It shows off the House CSPAN
Jack-in-the-pulpit plant ARUM
Job for a GM HIRE
Kind of carpet SHAG
Kind of league IVY
Like some apples TART
Losing electorate's oxymoron? BIGMINORITY
Lucky number, for some SEVEN
Minor dustup SPAT
Nitrogen, for instance GAS
Not straight BENT
Notes in a pot, maybe IOUS
Clues Answers
NYSE regulator SEC
Olympic symbol FLAME
Out of humor TESTY
Part of a low poker straight TREY
Personal record DIARY
Pie cutter's oxymoron SMALLERHALF
Polynesian dance HULA
Practice boxing SPAR
Prune, formerly PLUM
Pungent bulb ONION
Quite proficient ADEPT
Rather dull TAME
Rejoinder to "'Tis!" TAINT
Room at the top? ATTIC
Semicolons cousin COMMA
Sharpen skills HONE
Shells, but not ziti AMMO
Small branch TWIG
Small purse ETUI
Smoking gun, so to speak PROOF
Social brew TEA
Sound from a flock BLEAT
Steed stopper WHOA
Stubborn one MULE
Suit material TWILL
Teacake kin SCONE
They get public opinion POLLS
They might be fine ARTS
Totally engrossed RAPT
Turned on the waterworks WEPT
Verbal challenge DARE
Waldorf salad ingredient CELERY
Waste maker, proverbially HASTE
Wedding stop ALTAR
Western treaty grp. OAS
Word with Black or rain FOREST
___ cilhbre CAUSE
___ of Capricorn TROPIC
___-inflammatory ANTI