USA Today - Nov 4 2004

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Clues Answers
9 of 9/04, briefly SEP
A Ringling brother OTTO
Abandon DESERT
Adams and Knotts DONS
Agency of HHS SSA
Algonquian speaker CREE
Aplomb POISE
Apply paint hastily DAUB
Atkins no-nos CARBS
Author of more than 600 compositions MOZART
Basie's "One O'clock ___" JUMP
Best-selling cookie OREO
Bicycle with an engine MOPED
Big name in youth sports POPWARNER
Bowline or clove hitch KNOT
Butter's alternative OLEO
Casting slot ROLE
Chemical compound ESTER
Civil-rights activist Parks ROSA
Containing gold AURIC
Convex molding OVOLO
Cornfield menace CROW
Device in a roasting turkey POPUPGAUGE
Dr. Ruth's field SEX
Entertainment for the hoi polloi POPCULTURE
Excruciation AGONY
Eyeglasses SPECS
Finally good enough to eat RIPE
Financial page listings, briefly IPOS
FYI circular MEMO
Gaza force, for short PLO
Give a ticket to CITE
Glazier's unit PANE
Gliding step CHASSE
Hasty escape LAM
Inauguration recitation OATH
Iniquities EVILS
It flows into the Caspian URAL
It may be forecast for the start of the second quarter? RAIN
Clues Answers
Itinerary ROUTE
Lavalava PAREU
Lewis the run stopper RAY
Librarian's stamp DATER
Lightly sprays MISTS
Like some linings ZIPIN
Manually skilled DEFT
Missouri town POPLARBLUFF
Native of Mosul IRAQI
Nobelist Wiesel ELIE
Not very busy SLOW
Obscure BLUR
Oscar-winning director Frank CAPRA
Pack down TAMP
Piltdown Man, e.g. HOAX
Possessive pronoun OURS
Quid pro ___ QUO
Rarin' to go EAGER
Remove, in a way ERASE
Rubbish POPPYCOCK
Sail extender SPRIT
Seed integument ARIL
Seed spitter's sound PTUI
Served, as time DID
Sharpen WHET
Sheepish OVINE
Some Canadian creatures GEESE
Sound like a jackass BRAY
Soupcons JOTS
Starboard's opposite APORT
The 411 INFO
Trips the light fantastic DANCES
Twinkle-toed AGILE
Ventures DARES
Vertex APEX
What Al Gore won in 2000 POPULARVOTE
Wield EXERT
Worker not interested in wages ROBOT
You may skip it ROPE