Newsday.com - May 23 2006

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Clues Answers
''Moby-Dick'' captain AHAB
''No need for an explanation'' YOUKNOWTHEDRILL
1051, to Nero MLI
Agitate STIR
Artist's stand EASEL
Attached firmly GLUED
Ballot caster VOTER
Batter's ploy BUNT
Be next to ABUT
Bull or rooster MALE
Business leader, slangily MRBIG
California/Nevada lake TAHOE
Central part CORE
Chimney dust SOOT
City in Alaska NOME
Cleaning appliance, for short VAC
Clumsy one CLOD
Conversation filler ISEE
Coop dwellers HENS
Crocodile cousins ALLIGATORS
Curmudgeon COOT
Customary NORMAL
Den or parlor ROOM
Ending for musket EER
Evicts OUSTS
Falls clumsily PLOPS
Feel sorry about RUE
Foe ENEMY
Gave as a bonus ADDED
Get permission to take more time FILEANEXTENSION
Gift-card word FROM
Hawkeye Pierce portrayer ALDA
Is patient for AWAITS
Jogged RAN
Keeping safe PRESERVING
Lavish affection (on) DOTE
Legal claim LIEN
Lower-price promotion SALE
Magazine edition ISSUE
Clues Answers
Make a maximal effort DOONESLEVELBEST
Moisten WET
Naval officer ENSIGN
Negate UNDO
Old-style exclamation EGAD
Paramedic: Abbr. EMT
Poison-ivy symptom ITCH
Poker-hand starters ANTES
Public square PLAZA
Push slightly BUMP
Rope loop NOOSE
Sample of food BITE
Sandwich bread RYE
School book TEXT
Second-year student SOPH
Seep OOZE
Skyscraper TOWER
Smidgens BITS
Sneaker, for one SHOE
Solid precipitation HAIL
Sound boosters AMPS
Split-__ soup PEA
Stay hidden HOLEUP
Stinging insect BEE
Talking bird MYNA
The one nearby THIS
Throat-culture finding STREP
Tooth pro's deg. DDS
Tourists' residences HOTELS
Trial locations VENUES
Two-band radio AMFM
Two-wheelers BIKES
Unceasingly ONEND
Vowel sequence AEIOU
W. Hemisphere alliance OAS
Want badly CRAVE
Was obligated to OWED
Wined and dined WOOED
__ and blood (kin) FLESH