USA Today - Oct 15 2004

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Clues Answers
"Beauty and the Beast" beauty BELLE
"Iliad" figure ARES
"___ Misérables" LES
"___ well that ends . . . " ALLS
2000 U.S. Open champ Marat SAFIN
A distance close enough to eavesdrop EARSHOT
Add at the last moment TACKON
Aesop's form of expression MORAL
Arts category GENRE
Auction action BID
Away from the wind, nautically ALEE
Barbecue treat RIB
Blunted swords EPEES
Cambridgeshire cathedral town ELY
Certainly not worldly NAIVE
Chanteuse Taylor DAYNE
Cornucopia on Thanksgiving, often CENTERPIECE
Current unit AMP
Curtail one's freedom of speech GAG
Direct extender IVE
Doctor-turned-wordsmith ROGET
Dot, dot, dot, dash, dash, dash, dot, dot, dot SOS
Draws out ELICITS
Dreamer's phrase ONEDAY
Epitomes of stubbornness ASSES
Exist, in latin ESSE
Fragrant yet poisonous Eurasian shrub OLEANDER
France's longest river LOIRE
Great Pyrenees, for example GUARDDOGS
Hurt AIL
In need of ointment ACHY
It's hard to endure RIGOR
Jagged EROSE
Jasper Johns' field ART
King of France? ROI
Largest book of the OT PSA
Layers, as in geology class STRATA
Like taro root or service berries EDIBLE
Loaded org.? NRA
Clues Answers
Lucy's landlady ETHEL
Manage GETBY
Mauna ___ (Hawaiian volcano) LOA
Mountain nymph OREAD
Music store section SKA
Nail NAB
Noted presidential monogram DDE
One cubic meter STERE
Open areas in office buildings ATRIA
Places where flies are found TACKLEBOXES
Poetry Muse ERATO
Pop off to SNAPAT
Powerless, as a threat EMPTY
Prepare for action GEARUP
Prepositional palindrome ERE
Readied for finish SANDED
Renee, opposite Jim Carrey IRENE
Santiago's country CHILE
Season during which this puzzle is appropriate? NFL
Secure against leakage SEAL
Served wine fancily DECANTED
Sieved food to a certain consistency RICED
Single-celled organism MONAD
Spot for the chicken-hearted? COOP
Spots for lamps and alarm clocks ENDTABLES
Sprite PIXIE
Status car, for short ROLLS
Styling substance GEL
Symbol of sluggishness SNAIL
That ship HER
Titter-titter TEEHEE
Tolkien's trees ENTS
Tony Gwynn his entire career PADRE
Twice as spooky EERIER
Type of brake DISC
University of Arizona locale TUCSON
University of Utah athlete UTE
Within prefix ENDO
Writer Kesey KEN