USA Today - Mar 3 2006

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Clues Answers
"Fables in Slang" author ADE
"Peter Pan" pirate SMEE
"What's ___?" NEW
''Moonstruck'' star CHER
29-Across LOMAN
Abbr. with Shaker or Brooklyn HTS
Academy freshman PLEBE
Actor Mineo SAL
Approved OKED
Arthur Miller protagonist SALESMAN
Attracted DREW
Audrey Hepburn role SABRINA
Auto pioneer OLDS
Babbling Addams COUSINITT
Baby brothers, typically PESTS
Barley bristle AWN
Be a coquette TEASE
Bean counter, for short CPA
Beautify ADORN
Best bet SHOOIN
Big name in cosmetics AVON
Bigger than big HUGE
Black cat, maybe OMEN
Black gold OIL
Blazer cleaner CARWASH
Boston or Chicago, e.g. BAND
Branch location TREE
Bring on board HIRE
Bump locale LOG
Came around AWOKE
Cape near Lisbon ROCA
Carpenter's groove DADO
Cause of some spots AGE
Chalice mates PATENS
Checked for typos PROOFED
Checkup sounds AHS
Chinatown neighbor, in London SOHO
Chinese vegetable SNOWPEA
Clothes line SEAM
Colorado NHL team, in sports pages AVS
Completely unfamiliar ALIEN
Corroded ATEINTO
Cover, in a way PAVE
Darling dog NANA
Declining business in the digital era PHOTODEVELOPING
Donald's fourth nephew? PHOOEYDUCK
Double DLI MCII
Drop back RECEDE
Eaglet nursery AERIE
Eligible for Mensa SMART
Enthusiast DEVOTEE
Express a view OPINE
Extremists ULTRAS
Fairy tale character TROLL
Fictional tree creatures ENTS
Fixes, as an election RIGS
Former Knicks center Patrick EWING
Former rival of Oprah Winfrey PHILDONAHUE
Get carried away in Hollywood EMOTE
Glove material, perhaps SUEDE
Gradually reduces PHASESDOWN
Green shade PEA
Greenfly, e.g. APHID
Hay fever cause POLLEN
Hearty partner HALE
Hershey purchase CACAO
Hip bones ILIA
Hood attachment ORNAMENT
Hoofed it heavily TROD
Hot spot OVEN
Hot spot SAUNA
Hunter's need AMMO
In the thick of AMID
In things FADS
Island dances HULAS
It can be checked COAT
It could precede the last word of 18-, 56-Across, 3-, 30-Down CLASS
It diverts the bull RODEOCLOWN
Clues Answers
It divided Martin from Lewis AND
It may precede other things AMONG
It really smells NOSE
It stands for something SYMBOL
Italian artist Guido RENI
Jazz flutist Herbie MANN
John for Janes POWDERROOM
Kosher, so to speak LICIT
Latin singer Anthony MARC
Like most films RATED
Like some deals RAW
Loses focus BLURS
Melville novel OMOO
Meter-reader's concern USAGE
Mets Stadium, until 2008 SHEA
Mining company taken over in 2007 PHELPSDODGE
Movie shots TAKES
Mowgli's friend in "The Jungle Book" AKELA
Name in power tools SKIL
No wimps, they HEMEN
Nobel-winning U.N. agency ILO
Not hold one's tongue YAP
Nymph loved by Apollo DAPHNE
Old Toyota SUPRA
Original nudist colony EDEN
Out of control AMOK
Overhaul REDO
Picks out of a lineup, briefly IDS
Pinnacle of fine art MASTERWORK
Pre-Easter period LENT
Prima donna DIVA
Put away the groceries? ATE
Require NEED
Reveal BARE
Robed dignitary EMIR
Rub out ERASE
Salon stuff GEL
Say "Li'l Abner," say ELIDE
Sci-fi landing site, perhaps MARS
Seed spreader SOWER
Shirt size, briefly LGE
Short short order BLT
Sib for sis BRO
Skilled one, for short PRO
Skirt style ALINE
Some elephants or whales COWS
Sometimes-hot spot ETNA
Sports shocker UPSET
State point-blank AVER
Sun Devils' sch. ASU
Swiss mathematician Leonhard EULER
Sylvester, to Tweety TAT
Taco topper, perhaps SALSA
Tailor-made part HEM
Tel ___, Israel AVIV
Thames team CREW
The socially lost, in stereotypes NERDS
Thick-skinned behemoth RHINO
Transfer design DECAL
Tree or nut MACADAMIA
Two-master YAWL
Uniform EVEN
Untouchable leader? NESS
Vessel for underwater work DIVINGBELL
Victor's cry, perhaps IWIN
Weighty book TOME
Went around in circles? EDDIED
Without partners ALONE
Woody's ex MIA
Word heard at boot camp SIR
Word with arms or foot RACE
Words of understanding ISEE
Worker's reward RAISE
Worthy starter NEWS
Yemeni port ADEN
___ and outs INS
___ fixe IDEE
___-carotene BETA