Universal - Apr 18 2006

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Clues Answers
''A Passage of Arms'' writer Ambler ERIC
''Days of Grace'' memoirist ASHE
''How sweet ___!'' ITIS
''So Big'' writer Ferber EDNA
''The Greatest Show on Earth'' star HESTON
''___ She Lovely'' (Stevie Wonder tune) ISNT
A dance, when doubled CAN
Absorbent stick SWAB
Acidulous TART
Approximately ORSO
Augury OMEN
Bat shaper LATHE
Bellow ROAR
Cager's favorite sound SWISH
Care GIVEAHOOT
Christie and Moffo ANNAS
City south of Knoxville ALCOA
Come into possession GAIN
Comfort EASE
Comic Youngman HENNY
Comparative ending IER
Concrete strengthener REBAR
Country bumpkin HAYSEED
Croix de Guerre recipient HERO
Dare BELLTHECAT
Designer Cassini OLEG
Dislodges FREES
Episodic OCCASIONAL
FARES GETSALONG
Female rabbit DOE
Flinch of distress WINCE
Formal accords PACTS
Gaelic ERSE
Gender abbreviation MASC
Give a tongue-lashing SCOLD
Goddess of fertility ISIS
Gun lobby, briefly NRA
Hill companion DALE
Homebuyer's option CONDO
Clues Answers
Interweave MESH
It's useful in October RAKE
Keypad predecessor DIAL
Kismet FATE
Mailbox features, perhaps SLOTS
Man with a mission? PADRE
Middle of a kids' game TAC
Most spiffy NEATEST
Nocturnal pest ROACH
Off-Broadway award OBIE
On ___ of (as a proxy for) BEHALF
One of 43-Across ASIA
One ___ time ATA
Pare TRIMTHEFAT
Pastoral spot LEA
Pimpled ACNED
Possibly PERHAPS
Provokes NETTLES
Pt. of IHOP INTL
Quicentenary and quipedal starter SES
Rafsanjani's land IRAN
Resort near Copper Mountain VAIL
Responded to the auctioneer BADE
Root word? RAH
Shar-peis, e.g. DOGS
Sly trick WILE
Some choir members ALTOS
Some massive land areas CONTINENTS
Stand-in, for short SUB
TAKE DOWN ABASE
They often have a ball TEES
They'll bring you downhill fast SKIS
Took measures ACTED
Try to slim down DIET
TV host John TESH
Unexpected obstacle SNAG
Wee bit IOTA
What many followed SUIT
Word with iron or lock GRID