Universal - Mar 17 2005

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Clues Answers
''Beauty's Punishment'' author RICE
''Fantasia'' dancer HIPPO
''The Cask of Amontillado'' author POE
Band leader? CONTRA
Bones up CRAMS
Brit. award for Lester Pearson OBE
Budding officers CADETS
Bundles up SHEAFS
Caledonian SCOT
Censored rockers? BANNEDBAND
Chocolate substitute CAROB
Chop copy EDIT
Cook thriller COMA
Cork locale EIRE
Cover story? ALIBI
Curing agent SALT
Diplomat's skill TACT
Double quartet OCTET
Edinburgh miss LASS
Equine offspring FOAL
Fat cats BIGSHOTS
Filled tortilla TACO
Fishy controls? FINS
Fit to be tied IRATE
Fully aware of ONTO
Good-natured stone? NICEGNEISS
Grace period? AMEN
Greek nickname ARI
Haphazard collection OLIO
Historic conference site YALTA
Indonesian skirmish? MALAYMELEE
It follows what ELSE
It's a long story EPIC
It's not in the library often NOISE
Judgment time DOOMSDAY
Kidnapped Egyptian? COPPEDCOPT
Levelers in rivers WEIRS
Light ___ (ethereal) ASAIR
Long-tailed songbird PIPIT
Clues Answers
Mahatma SAGE
Man Friday AIDE
Manacles IRONS
Musical conclusion CODA
Musician's tapper TOE
Oil state CRUDE
Opposed ANTI
Org. of 11 Southern states CSA
Pet with green ''hair'' CHIA
Pine YEARN
Play start ACTI
Powerless to act INERT
Presage OMEN
Presented, as a problem POSED
Pugs' milieux ARENAS
Respiratory rattle RALE
Salad or sushi BAR
Salutation, somewhere HOLA
Santa trailer ANA
Score requiring overtime ONETOONE
Sermon HOMILY
Set straight ALIGN
Shelley's ''Ozymandias,'' e.g. SONNET
Soccer superstar PELE
Something up your sleeve, perhaps ACE
Spanish island group CANARY
Street in a Sinclair Lewis title MAIN
Sub station? DELI
Tempest locale TEAPOT
Through here to grandmother's house? WOODS
Tom or Thomas WOLFE
Tom-toms and timbales, e.g. DRUMS
Torrijos or Bradley OMAR
Trees in an O'Neill title ELMS
Weapon similar to an arbalest CROSSBOW
Word with beer or cellar ROOT
Word with empty or mare's NEST
Word with one or ocean LINER
You need this for a two-run homer ONEON