USA Today - Aug 26 2005

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Clues Answers
''Planet of the ___'' APES
''Skoal'' and ''Here's mud in your eye'' TOASTS
''The butcher, the baker, the candle stick-___'' MAKER
''___! In The Name Of Love'' STOP
A shot might indicate it START
Abolish END
Actress Spelling TORI
Army general, to his underlings? BASEMENTOR
Baby powder TALC
Backs off (with ''up'') EASES
Baptisms and the like RITES
Beginning ASOF
Birth of a notion? IDEA
Board game feature SPINNER
Boy Scout groups TROOPS
Bull opposite BEAR
Captain of the Nautilus NEMO
Chambers in the catacombs TOMBS
Chopin composition ETUDE
Conquest of 1953 EVEREST
Count of jazz BASIE
Country singer McEntire REBA
Director Preminger OTTO
Distinguishing attribute TRAIT
Dwelling ABODE
Easily duped sorts SAPS
Editor's mark STET
Fashion designer Oscar de la ___ RENTA
Feed the kitty ANTE
First of all? ADAM
Gen. Powell's status RET
Get ___ the ground floor INON
Go ballistic RAGE
Hearsay about an evil spirit? DEMONRUMOR
Hit the buzzer? SWAT
Hog fat LARD
Horatian creation ODE
Impenetrable suit for a knight? STRONGARMOR
Lady of letters VANNA
Clues Answers
Large hotel unit SUITE
Mental faculties WITS
Minute Maid Park players ASTROS
Modern missive EMAIL
Napoleon's isle of exile ELBA
Neither companion NOR
Object of worship IDOL
One-armed bandits SLOTS
Part of Orion's belt STAR
Perennial last-place finisher LOSER
Pinball infractions TILTS
Pirate ship perch CROWSNEST
Plane dimensions WINGSPANS
Present from Zsa Zsa? GIFTOFGABOR
Region of South Africa NATAL
Schnozzola SNOOT
Shipping magnate Onassis ARI
Show overaffection DOTE
Single-masted vessels SLOOPS
South Pacific island SAMOA
Steinbeck title direction EAST
Subdivision divisions LOTS
Subside EBB
Symptom of hunger PANG
Take five REST
Tale of heroism FEAT
Tends to a squeak OILS
Typical West Point cadet, before 1976 MAN
UCLA athlete BRUIN
University of Maine locale ORONO
Uppity one SNOB
Venus de ___ MILO
Wade through mud SLOG
Wanton once-over OGLE
Western Colorado sight MESA
Where Flo worked for Mel DINER
Where Kings beat the Heat? ARENA
Words of reassurance IMOK
X-ray vision can't penetrate it LEAD