USA Today - Dec 30 2005

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Clues Answers
''Skoal,'' e.g. TOAST
''The Purple Rose of ___'' CAIRO
1 or 66, briefly RTE
Actress Spacek SISSY
Aesthetics philosopher Langer SUSANNE
Ban legally ESTOP
Be infuriated SEERED
Be vainglorious BOAST
Beauty lover BEAST
Binge SPREE
Black and Red, e.g. SEAS
Categorizes SORTS
Celt GAEL
Clark's ''Mogambo'' co-star AVA
Company with a reptilian logo IZOD
Dennis Doherty and John Phillips PAPAS
Discoveries FINDS
Drat! PSHAW
Entertainer Amos or Spelling TORI
Essay count WORDAGE
ETO commander, familiarly IKE
Famous physician; zoo containers? HIPPOCRATES
Far West region THECOAST
Fervor ZEAL
Half a score TEN
Honshu mount FUJI
In ___ (original place) SITU
Incinerator input TRASH
Indonesian boat PRAHU
Informer RAT
Least able to see BLINDEST
Like Santa's suit on December 26th SOOTY
Madison Ave. creations SLOGANS
Make lace, in a way TAT
Matterhorn, e.g. ALP
Minute SMALL
Music's Secada JON
Naval carrier letters USS
New prefix NEO
Clues Answers
Newcomers; without faults? NOVICES
Not a particular ANY
O'Hare abbreviation ARR
Overcharges FLEECES
Overly TOO
Pedometer's measurements STEPS
Penne kin ZITI
Pert SASSY
Pious HOLY
Pops DADS
Possessing sound quality TONAL
Pressure units TORRS
Really big shoes; young baseball team? NINETEENS
Rib TEASE
River near Nottingham TRENT
Royal Navy designation HMS
Savings instrument, briefly IRA
Scholars SAVANTS
Seeker of perfection; innovator's agenda? IDEALIST
Semimonthly tides NEAPS
Sly CAGY
Some assault weapons UZIS
Spaceman Gordon FLASH
Spanish painter Joan MIRO
Spanish pal AMIGO
Spoken ORAL
Stereotypical inducement CARROT
Suffer AIL
Sure things; specific Father's Day gifts? CERTAINTIES
They may be receding; toupe catalogs HAIRLINES
Wield; breakfast item? BRANDISH
Winner of six U.S. Opens EVERT
Wood strip SLAT
Word after ''que,'' in song SERA
Word in an octagon STOP
Word with clip and money PAPER
X-ray unit RAD
___ of Reason AGE
___ out (barely gets) EKES