USA Today - Dec 19 2005

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Clues Answers
''La Boheme'' role MIMI
''The racer's edge'' STP
''West Side Story'' Oscar winner MORENO
A Plymouth colony founder PILGRIM
A U.S. time zone MST
A year in the Yucatan ANO
Actress Daly TYNE
Apologize and then some ATONE
Australian Prime Minister Sir George REID
Bank, at times LENDER
Basic hydrocarbon ALKANE
Big first for a baby STEP
Builder's buy LOT
California white oak ROBLE
Cartoon mirages OASES
Certain advanced degrees (Abbr.) MBAS
Certain Red Cross volunteer DONOR
Choler IRE
Coffer, in architecture PANEL
Continental cash EURO
County fair award, perhaps BLUERIBBON
Cows' digs LEAS
Do one of the three R's READ
Employment ad letters EOE
Felt remorse RUED
Ferber novel SOBIG
Fifth zodiac sign LEO
Fight for air GASP
First female to swim the Channel EDERLE
First name in horror flicks BELA
French star ETOILE
Garland for the head, formerly ANADEM
Get on, as a horse MOUNT
Goad EGGON
Hammerhead end PEEN
Hardest hit to get TRIPLE
Hillock MOUND
Human ending OID
It can be ear-piercing STUD
Clues Answers
It has reddish-orange flowers with black spots TIGERLILY
It may bring an act to an end GONG
It may eventually turn TIDE
Joyce's motherland ERIN
Like a span of oxen TEAMED
Make tea STEEP
Mammal's coat PELAGE
Member of a Platte River people OTO
New Haven student, informally YALIE
Observer's record NOTES
Obtain, as support ENLIST
One of a temporary 20 in children MILKTOOTH
One place to promote a new CD ONTOUR
One-time Camaro rival GTO
Preindication OMEN
Scala of ''The Guns of Navarone'' GIA
Sentimental drivel GOO
She's more than a babysitter NURSEMAID
Ship's lowest deck ORLOP
Sigmund's daughter ANNA
Some Louvre attractions MONETS
Sort of scholar RHODES
Swayback's woe SAG
Tabloid topic, often PAIR
Take umbrage RESENT
Talk big BRAG
They may pop up while you browse ADS
They're a form of consumer protection LEMONLAWS
They're used to make the grade BULLDOZERS
Thin nails BRADS
Tireless carrier SLED
Type of bag DOGGIE
Used the banister, in a way SLID
Volunteer state sch. UTENN
Water source SPRING
Weather report abbr., perhaps NNW
Where you may see a suricate ZOO
Word in an Ernest Hemingway title ARMS
Yin counterpart YANG