USA Today - Mar 30 2006

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Clues Answers
''King of the Elephants'' BABAR
''Tootsie'' star Garr TERI
... --- ... SOS
A King and a Shepard ALANS
Advance slowly CREEP
Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, etc. COTTONBELT
An ''unalienable right'' LIFE
Andy Taylor's druggist ELLIE
Astronaut Grissom GUS
Baseball stratagem BUNT
Battle buddies ALLIES
Beauty parlor SALON
Bit of serendipity FLUKE
Book identifying birds, plants, etc. FIELDGUIDE
Brief memorial column OBIT
Buenos ___ AIRES
Carnival city, briefly RIO
Cheer for a banderillero OLE
Disreputable place DIVE
Drowned valley RIA
Envelope feature, perhaps CLASP
Extension extension CORD
Family tree members ANCESTORS
Far from forward COY
Farm subsidy? SEEDMONEY
Finsteraarhorn, for one ALP
First in a long line? ADAM
Flies off the shelf SELLS
Four-chambered organ HEART
Franks' place? DELI
H.S.T. preceder FDR
Half a comic duo OLLIE
Hautboy OBOE
In a regal manner NOBLY
Inordinate UNDUE
It may be saved or served BACON
It may precede a deal ANTE
It's a bit controlling? REIN
Kind of monster GILA
Clues Answers
Knotted EVEN
La-di-da ARTY
Lecture around the country BARNSTORM
Lessen the force of BATE
Makes up for ATONES
Medicinal plant ALOE
Mill output, perhaps STEEL
Nautical direction ALEE
One of the Seven Dwarfs HAPPY
Out-of-the-way place NOOK
Place for a kiss ALTAR
Pole Position system ATARI
Prefix with American AFRO
Prepare to take a dubbing KNEEL
Proofreader's ''save'' STET
Ready for plucking RIPE
Referendum choice YES
Rink leap AXEL
Sacred song MOTET
Saxes and clarinets, e.g. REEDS
Sentry stations POSTS
Showed excessive fondness (with ''on'') DOTED
Tangerine-bearing trees MANDARINS
The Boilermakers PURDUE
They change every year AGES
They're found in scores RESTS
They're on many grocery shelves PLANTERSPEANUTS
Three sheets to the wind LIT
Top-drawer AONE
Track-and-field contest MEET
Type of fence PICKET
Type of plug SPARK
Wahines' strings, briefly UKES
Way off AFAR
Will Rogers' prop ROPE
Word with bobby and bowling PINS
Yoked pair OXEN
Zippo NADA
___-de-camp AIDE