USA Today - Dec 28 2004

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Clues Answers
". . . peck of pickled peppers," e.g. ALLITERATION
"Bark, Spot!" SPEAK
"Buzz" or "hiss," e.g. ONOMATOPOEIA
"I ___ lineman for the county" AMA
"Let me sew you to your sheet," e.g. SPOONERISM
"Porgy and ___" BESS
1961 inauguration speaker FROST
4 to 1, e.g. RATIO
Affirm as true ATTEST
Aftermath of a brainstorm IDEA
Alternative to graphics TEXT
Angler's baskets CREELS
Anna or Otto, e.g. PALINDROME
Boucle or Shetland wool, e.g. YARN
Brazilian soccer great PELE
Bygone big bird MOA
Cannonballed SPED
Cat or turkey TOM
Chiang's husband MAO
Comic Johnson ARTE
Crony PAL
Crumble ERODE
Curbside containers MAILBOXES
Disencumber RID
Doesn't discard USES
Face on a wrist DIAL
Fourth person ABEL
Group united for action BLOC
Here and there? APART
Hydrogen's number ONE
Irving sleepyhead RIP
Is deficient LACKS
Island in the Tyrrhenian ELBA
Issue forth with force SPOUT
It can cause itching SUMAC
It can probably make the cut BLADE
It has been compared to a tree POEM
It may precede other things AMONG
Items in the fire IRONS
Clues Answers
Lay waste DESTROY
Layer of Earth's crust SIMA
Like the spotted owl RARE
Long-term investment IRA
Marked with lines SCORED
Nepalese money RUPEE
Nervously uncomfortable ILLATEASE
Nimbus AURA
No longer novel STALE
Not a full cut TRIM
Not aweather ALEE
Palatable TASTY
Part of a retribution phrase TAT
Pierce STAB
Pismires ANTS
Place for checking and saving? RINK
Plays on words PUNS
Popular Downing Street address TEN
Redding of soul OTIS
Relative apt for 61-Across SIS
Respects ESTEEMS
Ripen MATURE
River to the Caspian URAL
Ruffled one's feathers IRED
Shooting site SET
Spring runner SAP
Subtlety NUANCE
Sweet glazes ICINGS
Sycophant YESMAN
The Palestra, e.g. ARENA
They're on most dean's lists COEDS
Thins DILUTES
Transport dating from the Stone Age SLED
Uptown cracker-topper BRIE
Vitamin C sources LIMES
Weigh down LADE
Where they're raisin' raisins FRESNO
Word with nurse or old MAID
Workplace, for some DESK