Universal - Sep 21 2005

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Clues Answers
''... with a banjo on my ___'' KNEE
''Come here often?'' is one LINE
''Gone With the Wind,'' for one EPIC
''Live at Red Rocks'' pianist TESH
''No ice'' NEAT
''That's a new one ___!'' ONME
''The Shadow'' star Baldwin ALEC
''We Three Kings of Orient ___'' ARE
''___ Heldenleben'' (Strauss piece) EIN
''___ of a Preacher Man'' SON
'70s pop quartet ABBA
A Connors' rival ASHE
A deadly sin ENVY
About 1.609 kilometers MILE
Accidental gap LAPSE
Addict's bugbear URGE
Ages EONS
Aimless ERRANT
Alaska resource OIL
Animal abode LAIR
Animal in a roundup STEER
Anita Brookner's ''Hotel du ___'' LAC
Architects' extensions ELLS
Ardor ELAN
Arduous journey TREK
Athena's breastplate (Var.) EGIS
Awaits judgment PENDS
Baker's stock EGGS
Bedtime story baddie OGRE
Biblical matriarch EVE
Big benefit GALA
Bird sanctuary NEST
Bit of baby babble GOO
Black, in poesy EBON
Block brand in the playroom LEGO
Blunted weapon EPEE
Botanical swelling EDEMA
Boys LADS
Breakfast spread OLEO
Bright star in Orion RIGEL
Bully's prey, traditionally NERD
Canine laryngitis? HUSKYVOICE
Canine's canine? HOUNDSTOOTH
Carter of classic TV SGT
Casino machine SLOT
Certain bomb squad worker ROBOT
Certain car payment TOLL
Clean tables BUS
Colonial governor Thomas GAGE
Commandments chest ARK
Compare LIKEN
Country singer Davis MAC
Defense secretary under Nixon LAIRD
Demure MODEST
Denominational offshoot SECT
Development sites TRACTS
Dispense with all modesty BOAST
Distinctive flair ELAN
Distribute into groups ASSORT
Donnybrook MELEE
Drive up the wall PESTER
Emulates Ederle SWIMS
Experimental pooch? SCIENCELAB
Extension extension CORD
Fashionable doggy? TRENDSETTER
Fly over the equator? TSETSE
Four commands to a dog STAYSITHEELCOME
Fragrant compound ESTER
Funk of Funk & Wagnalls ISAAC
Get a handle on GRIP
Graft recipient HOST
Head for the heavens SOAR
Heavyweight Liston SONNY
Idle and Roberts ERICS
Inclined, in England LEANT
It's famous for its rapid transit HARE
Jingles TUNES
Clues Answers
Kind of acid AMINO
Knickknacks ITEMS
Knocked off a dragon SLEW
Krypton or Vulcan PLANET
Largest living rodent CAPYBARA
Leporine shes DOES
Lightning drawers RODS
Line at the barbershop? PART
Luster SHEEN
Maiden name signaler NEE
Marriage or coronation, e.g. RITE
Matter of interest RATE
Mattress size TWIN
Microscope parts LENSES
Miscellany OLIO
Mite-sized TEENSY
Moppet TYKE
Mr. T's gang ATEAM
New Day divider YEARS
Obey the lawbreaker ABET
Old drum played with a fife TABOR
Onionlike stew vegetables LEEKS
Only SOLE
Paleontologist's estimate AGE
Perform community service, perhaps ATONE
Piano pieces? KEYS
Pinto rival of old VEGA
Play boisterously CAVORT
Playground staples SLIDES
Plus or minus, e.g. SIGN
Protagonists HEROES
Punctuation mark between hours and minutes COLON
Queens diamond? SHEA
Radiates EMITS
Rhodes sight COLOSSUS
Rhymester POET
Roasting rooster CAPON
Rodeo item LARIAT
Rose oil ATTAR
Ruffle some feathers RILE
Salon solution RINSE
Seal in the juices SEAR
Seasonal workers ELVES
Settles CALMS
Shoe finish SHINE
Short tabloid subjects ETS
Showing strain TENSE
Signaling CUING
Skater's figure EIGHT
Skywalker cohort SOLO
Slippery trees? ELMS
Some island souvenirs LEIS
Some plankton ALGA
Sport fisherman's catch BASS
Stand in good ___ (be useful to) STEAD
Strong impulses URGES
Suffix with ''land'' or ''sea'' SCAPE
Tasting the air SMELLING
Telephone button STAR
They're under the patellae SHINS
Thin pancakes BLINI
Tolerate ABIDE
Track numbers ODDS
Two treat-worthy phrases ATTABOYGOODGIRL
Type of pitch SALES
Underground railways of Paris and D.C. METROS
Warm greeting for voters GLADHAND
Way up a hill TBAR
Well, in France BIEN
Where 20-Across may be given OBEDIENCESCHOOL
Where or wise starter ELSE
Where to get dates TREE
Wide-spouted jug EWER
Winter Olympics gold medalist Kulik ILIA
Word in a pay-per-view event, perhaps BOUT
Yoga position LOTUS
___-Magnon CRO