USA Today - Apr 1 2004

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Clues Answers
"Ah-ha" predecessor IDEA
"Suit to ___" ATEE
"The Great Muppet ___" CAPER
"The Simpsons" bus driver OTTO
Adds punch to the punch SPIKES
Approaches NEARS
Base times height halved, for a triangle AREA
Baseball VIPs MGRS
Beantown hero ORR
Blow a note TOOT
Bolivian capital SUCRE
Campus hangout QUAD
Chump change to a pirate? BABYBOOTY
Compositions of exaltation ODES
Cost of corn for a pirate? BUCKANEAR
Crest of a small hill KNAP
Dolly, for one CLONE
Dweeb NERD
Each PER
Electrical systems GRIDS
Euphrates' counterpart TIGRIS
Explore caves SPELUNK
Fading flame feature EMBER
Fire, army and others ANTS
Good breaking ball location AWAY
Grassy plains in the Southwest LLANOS
Gratis item COMP
Hackneyed TRITE
Hobbled gofer on a pirate ship? PEGLEGMAN
Honshu currency YEN
Hoodlum for hire GOON
In the know AWARE
Initials linked to Watson and Crick DNA
It comes from the heart AORTA
Jingle seller ADMAN
Jungle danger BOA
Just a line or two BLURB
Knightly honorific SIR
Legally prohibit DEBAR
Lennon's love ONO
Clues Answers
Like a violent pirate movie? RATEDARRR
Like one who's seen a ghost PALE
Litigant PARTY
LSU football coach, Nick SABAN
Luxurious resort SPA
Medieval protection ARMOR
More eccentric QUIRKIER
Movie star Ryan MEG
Neptune's weapons TRIDENTS
New Year's Eve headwear TIARA
Nosegay POSY
Noticed from afar EYED
One who catches congers EELER
One-time items EXES
Painter Rivera DIEGO
Phony, as a phone call CRANK
Place for one with opera glasses LOGE
Police ploys RAIDS
Proclamation reader of old CRIER
Puts an onus on TAXES
Puts down fresh chalk RELINES
Raw metals, e.g. ORES
Saw backward? WAS
Shake an Etch A Sketch ERASE
Source of illumination LAMP
Surfeited CLOYED
Surreptitious rendezvous TRYST
Sustenance for Citation OAT
Taj Mahal site AGRA
Talk inanely PRATE
Tenant's contract LEASE
They're "Takin' Care of Business" BTO
Tugs and punts BOATS
Unseld of basketball fame WES
Varietal display ARRAY
Vaudevillian props CANES
Weightlifter's powder TALC
What Kramden called Norton, often PAL
Wrapping weight TARE
___ America LATIN