USA Today - Mar 12 2004

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Clues Answers
''Blue Suede Shoes'' writer Perkins CARL
''Fiddlesticks!'' DRAT
''I Like It Here'' author AMIS
''The Iliad'' and ''The Odyssey,'' e.g. EPICS
''You ___ kidding!'' ARENT
1961 chimp in space ENOS
Abraham's grandson ESAU
Abraham's wife SARAH
Accelerator particle ION
Advertising medium SANDWICHBOARD
Airline ticket word VIA
Apothecary's measure DRAM
Appear uninvited POPIN
Asian capital TAIPEI
Azov is one SEA
Balance sheet minus DEBT
Barber's obstruction EAR
Become deflated SAG
Biblical Hebrew kingdom JUDAH
Boss in the kitchen CHEF
Bound together TIED
Briefly INAWORD
British submachine gun STEN
Broke a commandment LIED
Cadge BUM
Capri or Moselle, e.g. WINE
Card game played with sevens through aces SKAT
Carmaker Maserati ERNESTO
Central American pyramid builders MAYANS
Certain healer TIME
Chickpea GARBANZOBEAN
Chorus line maneuver KICK
Christmas tableau CRECHE
Church official VICAR
Cinch WALKOVER
Classic painting, ___ Lisa MONA
Coagulate CLOT
Cold soup? CHICKENNOODLE
Columnist Barry DAVE
Company with a spokesduck AFLAC
Congressman Trent LOTT
Cookie ingredient, sometimes MACADAMIANUT
Cotton-pickin' DADGUM
Coup d'___ ETAT
Creates a glaze SLEETS
Cup preceder HIC
Dagger symbols, in printing OBELI
David Blaine's specialties STUNTS
Dawned AROSE
Daybed of sorts SOFA
Deli offering HERO
Diamond topper TARP
Discharges EXPELS
Do, re or mi NOTE
Earth science (Abbr.) ECOL
Engineer's compartment CAB
England's queen, 1702-14 ANNE
Erupt SPEW
Eruption fallout ASH
Espoused WED
Esteem to the extreme ADORE
Evening get-togethers SOIREES
Farm tool HOE
Faulkner femme fatale Varner EULA
Fax function SEND
Fill with optimism UPLIFT
First name among Batman portrayers VAL
First name among classic TV husbands DESI
Fly-catching bird PEWEE
For that reason HENCE
Fraction of a min. SEC
French clerical title ABBE
Gaelic ERSE
Gambling city RENO
Gangster's weapon ROSCOE
Geller, the spoonbender URI
Girder fastener RIVET
Golfing feat EAGLE
Goodman's music-maker LICORICESTICK
Goof ERR
Green veggie KALE
Guards make them ROUNDS
Hate with a passion DETEST
High-risk, high-yield certificate JUNKBOND
Hindu soul ATMAN
Hirt's companion HORN
Hives UREDO
Hornswoggle OUTSMART
Hour of down time? NAP
Hurler Hershiser OREL
Ibsen's Gabler HEDDA
Iditarod entries DOGSLEDS
Impersonate APE
In the neighborhood of ABOUT
In-your-face OVERT
Inconsistent HITORMISS
Internalizes anger STEWS
Invitation from within ENTER
It comes from the heart PULSE
It equips you for a moving experience VAN
It goes this way and that way ESS
It is often placed near a crib BABYMONITOR
It may lie around the beach TOWEL
It's a good feller CHAINSAW
It's often raided ICEBOX
Itinerary abbr. ETD
Jaunty RAKISH
Jefferson's Monticello, e.g. ESTATE
Jet-setters' jets, once SSTS
Just as scheduled ONTRACK
Kachina doll makers HOPI
Karenina of literature ANNA
King of the road HOBO
Lab burners ETNAS
Clues Answers
Lady's application, perhaps PANCAKEMAKEUP
Laze about LOLL
Legal org. ABA
Let up ABATE
Limnologist's studies PONDS
Loafer's cushion INSOLE
Lollobrigida of films GINA
Lustrous fabrics SATEENS
Magic, once LALAKER
Martial arts degree DAN
Maui-to-Hawaii dir. SSE
Mex. neighbor ARIZ
Miami team HEAT
Middle Eastern ruler (Var.) EMEER
Middle X or O TAC
Miser's pronoun MINE
Modern records CDS
Moliere's genre SATIRE
Momentary cessation PAUSE
Moonlight for Beethoven SONATA
Mozart offering RONDO
Music collectibles, briefly LPS
Music genre FOLK
Music storage medium, maybe DISC
Mythical monsters SEASERPENTS
Narc chaser? OSIS
Naval Academy freshmen PLEBS
Needing kneading, maybe ACHY
New York attraction METS
Next year's alumnus SENIOR
NFL blockers and catchers TES
Not centered TOONESIDE
Old cloth measure ELL
One ___ time ATA
Org. where love means nothing? USTA
Oscar Mayer product BACON
Overstuff SATE
Palin, for one ALASKAN
Part of a coinage motto INGOD
Parts of waves CRESTS
Patriot's org. NFL
Pay taxes on OWN
Pertaining to the eyes OCULAR
Pet protection org. ASPCA
Photo lab svc. ENL
Picked-on instruments, briefly UKES
Pitch preceder SLO
Plus ALSO
Poetic feet IAMBI
Poled vessel RAFT
Porous gems OPALS
Predator of the deep ORCA
Prefix with sphere STRATO
Procure GET
Racing family UNSERS
Radar O'Reilly's quaffs NEHIS
Related, on mom's side ENATIC
Renters LESSEES
River to Donegal Bay ERNE
Rock salt HALITE
Rumors or gossip TOWNTALK
Russian currency (Var.) ROUBLE
Sans sense INANE
Screen image ICON
Senator Bayh of Indiana EVAN
Senator Trent LOTT
Senescence OLDAGE
Setting for Verdi's ''Simon Boccanegra'' GENOA
Shelves STOWS
Shoe form LAST
Sicilian resort ENNA
Singer Laine CLEO
Singer now known as Yusuf Islam CATSTEVENS
Sister in Chekhov's ''Three Sisters'' OLGA
Some coaches (Abbr.) ASSTS
Sound under the big top ROAR
South, to the North ANTIPOLE
Split personalities? EXES
Spotted felines OCELOTS
St. closest to the Bahamas FLA
State point-blank AVER
Strauss waltz river DANUBE
Sty matriarch SOW
Surface measurement AREA
Tantalizes TEASES
Tardy LATE
Teeming RIFE
Terminals DEPOTS
That ship HER
The first cardinal ONE
The media PRESS
Them, to us FOES
They may be hard to swallow PILLS
Tiller locale AFT
Tiny bit IOTA
Tony Shalhoub TV role MONK
Traffic jams SNARLS
Transported by delight ENRAPT
Tricia Nixon's married name COX
Type of monkey RHESUS
Venezuelan tourist attraction ANGELFALLS
Washington and McKinley (Abbr.) MTS
Water in Cannes EAU
Way to stand PAT
Weather Channel forecast, perhaps SLEET
What a single gives you ONEBASE
Where some bargains are made? BASEMENT
Where the ''Mona Lisa'' smiles LOUVRE
Wild West MAE
Wooden deck trouble DRYROT
Word between two dogs? EAT
Word with foil or can TIN
Zagreb native CROAT
___ avis RARA