Newsday.com - Aug 2 2012

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Clues Answers
''Common Sense'' writer PAINE
''Leading With My Chin'' autobiographer LENO
''Little piggies'' TOES
''West Wing'' Emmy winner ALDA
''You get the idea . . .'' ETC
18-wheeler RIG
30th anniversary gift PEARL
A flair for fashion STYLE
Additional ELSE
Band booster AMP
Basic cable network USA
Be snoopy PRY
Be wild about ADORE
Becomes involved, with ''in'' STEPS
Believed, so to speak BOUGHT
Bottom of the face JOWL
Bringer of bad luck HOODOO
City southwest of Buffalo ERIE
Concert bonus ENCORE
Cram, with ''up'' BONE
Deceptive talk JIVE
Deftly done NEAT
Diminish slowly WANE
Dispatch SEND
Draw upon USE
Driving need TEE
Economist Smith ADAM
Feathery scarf BOA
Firstborn ELDEST
Fruit of a rose HIPS
Fund-raising effort APPEAL
Good: Fr BON
Gumbo ingredient OKRA
Gusto ZEST
Heavy knock THUMP
Impractical activity CHASINGRAINBOWS
In a bad mood SORE
Koala's color GRAY
Light brown TAN
Long ago ONCE
Clues Answers
Margaret Thatcher alma mater OXFORD
Marker IOU
Medicated DOSED
Needing spice BLAND
Nursery supplies WIPES
Of age ADULT
Optimists' activity FOLLOWINGDREAMS
Payback seeker AVENGER
Place for a lecture HALL
Places for earrings LOBES
Playwright O'Casey SEAN
Poetic sphere ORB
Polish partner SPIT
Prefix for series MINI
Recent grads' activity PURSUINGCAREERS
Reunion-goer GRAD
Roused WOKE
Saltwater game fish MARLIN
Say again ECHO
Sci-fi staples UFOS
Show pleasure BEAM
Showed up CAME
Slangy refusal NOPE
Slick OILY
Slugger's stat RBI
Spicy cuisine THAI
Square NERDY
Stand for a painting EASEL
Summon CALL
Sure to end badly NOWIN
The full range ATOZ
Thought IDEA
Throat culture finding STREP
Took a break SAT
Top of some clock dials XII
Tough row to hoe ORDEAL
Type styles FONTS
Underhanded SLY
Wish undone RUE
Wonderment AWE