USA Today - Mar 10 2005

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Clues Answers
''Love Story'' novelist Segal ERICH
A la King? EERIE
Actor Holliman EARL
Allied org. NATO
Apothecary measure DOSE
Bacon buys SLABS
Bulgaria's capital SOFIA
CAB successor FAA
Call to share a secret? PSST
Causes an unearned run ERRS
Central line AXIS
Cheerful EXUBERANT
Coats not worn RINDS
Collapsible canopies UMBRELLAS
Columbus inst. OSU
Daughter of Ming the Merciless AURA
Disappearing phone features DIALS
Dispatch a dragon SLAY
Diva Moffo ANNA
Eager AGOG
Equal PEER
Fission subject ATOM
Game with balls LOTTO
Go on foot HIKE
Guy who stood behind Michael Jackson TITO
Harangue TIRADE
Hat, symbolically ROLE
Haughty one SNOOT
Heckelphones OBOES
Hill companion DALE
Historical novel, e.g. EPIC
Institute START
It has notions ETUI
It may be kicked HABIT
Jot IOTA
Kind of pen STATE
Kind of steward SHOP
Kind of system MERIT
Maine college town ORONO
Clues Answers
Meeting manager CHAIRPERSON
Moore co-star ASNER
Nemeses BANES
Not of the cloth LAIC
One-time Italian currency LIRA
Otherwise ELSE
Parking location, often REAR
Part of a hurricane EYE
Personal account MEMOIR
Petty in ''Free Willy'' LORI
Poker rule TABLESTAKES
Pool table material FELT
Potentate of the past TSAR
Quahog, e.g. CLAM
Rat STOOLPIGEON
Responsibility ONUS
Sandwich breads PITAS
Sniggler's pursuit EEL
Sort of squirrel GRAY
Stable diet OATS
Standoffish ALOOF
Statements of opposition? NOES
Supplicant's request ALMS
Tasteless CRASS
Ten-toed sloth? COUCHPOTATO
The legal profession BAR
The offense or the defense SIDE
The Smothers Brothers, for one DUET
They may be licked CHOPS
Thought-provoking DEEP
Three-three, for one TIE
TV sitcom lead character, 1965-71 HOGAN
Unsocial sort LONER
Upper hand EDGE
Utter indistinctly SLUR
Wiped out TIRED
Word of dismissal SCRAM
Word with cough or corn SYRUP
Zipper alternatives SNAPS