USA Today - Mar 18 2005

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Clues Answers
''Billion Year Spree'' author Brian ALDISS
''Diff'rent Strokes'' character WILLIS
''To life!'' LCHAIM
40-day period LENT
Alloy of gold and silver ELECTRUM
Bat wood, typically ASH
Bees' quest NECTAR
Belittle DEMEAN
Beware of this joint CLIP
Bon ___ MOT
Brandy amount, perhaps TOT
Buy back RANSOM
Cause for a 15-yard penalty LATEHIT
Champagne cocktail MIMOSA
Chemistry exam topic, perhaps ISOMER
Cobbler's tool AWL
Cockroaches and cicadas, e.g. INSECTS
Columbia University affiliate BARNARD
Common game piece SPINNER
Coral constructions REEFS
Creates a glaze, in a way SLEETS
D.C. dealmaker POL
Dish of potatoes or fruit, e.g. SALAD
Dostoyevsky girl SASHA
Drink a bit TIPPLE
Drinking-water tester (Abbr.) EPA
Ed.'s pile for review MSS
Exude, as a poison SECRETE
Fade away EVANESCE
Five centimes, formerly SOU
Give-go link ITA
Impart LEND
Inaugural statement VOW
Kind of association ALUMNI
Knight mares? STEEDS
Like some fans ARDENT
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Limerick language ERSE
Lose solidity MELT
Love, Italian-style AMORE
Made haste SPED
Maidens LASSES
Minnesota capital STPAUL
Muscle injury TEAR
New Testament chronicle ACTS
New York lake SENECA
Not similar to UNLIKE
Note in a pot, perhaps IOU
Of a similar nature AKIN
Off the beaten track AFIELD
Piece of the pie SLICE
Placement determinant, often TEST
Protect, as freshness SEALIN
Quaint roads LANES
Re-election seekers INS
Relaxed ATEASE
Save SPARE
Seat of Pima County, Arizona TUCSON
She played Rosemary MIA
Small bags of scented powder SACHETS
Socrates' H ETA
Something fired AIRTOAIRMISSILE
Something fired EARTHENWARE
Something fired HUMANCANNONBALL
Sound of tires on the highway HUM
SPAR's counterpart WAC
Takes a little off the ends SNIPS
The middle of summer? EMS
Thrashes LAMS
Train stations DEPOTS
Turn on the waterworks WEEP
Type of cavity NASAL
Where Bruce Springsteen was born USA