Universal - Aug 21 2006

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Clues Answers
"Abracadabra" alternative PRESTO
"It'd be my pleasure" LOVETO
"That makes sense" IHEARYOU
"Uh-huh" (Var.) YEH
"___ be young again" (aging one's lament) OHTO
''I'm a Stranger Here Myself'' poet NASH
''Super Trouper'' group ABBA
A quarter of eight? TWO
Address the hall, e.g. ORATE
Affairs of the heart AMOURS
Agricultural flier CROPDUSTER
Alarming felony? ARSON
Alleviates EASES
Annual-review goals RAISES
Arbor asset SHADE
At ___ time (prearranged) ASET
Backs with bucks FUNDS
Bahamian capital NASSAU
Be of the same mind AGREE
Beverly Hills home, typically ESTATE
Bizarre OUTRE
Bonet or Loeb LISA
Box office draw STAR
Brewery kiln OAST
Bride's accessory VEIL
But of course SURE
Buttinsky SNOOP
Causes an unearned run ERRS
Causes concern ALARMS
Cherbourg cleric ABBE
City of fabled riches ELDORADO
Classic Bob Marley song STIRITUP
Clever CRAFTY
Coarse tools RASPS
Comment at the table YUM
Common people PLEBS
Complete change of course UTURN
Confiscates, as a car IMPOUNDS
Consumer USER
Contrary one ANTI
Cookbook instruction, sometimes BOIL
Cristofori invention PIANO
Dangling carrot, e.g. LURE
Destroy evidence, in a way SHRED
Disturber of the peace? NOISE
Do this before you drink and be merry EAT
Dry African riverbed WADI
Ed.'s submissions MSS
English river to the Trent OUSE
Expired, as a subscription RANOUT
Fabled loser HARE
Famous boy-king TUT
Fictional rabbit PETER
Final month of the Jewish calendar ELUL
Finger foods at a Spanish restaurant TAPAS
Fjord relative RIA
Fliers with lots of guts TESTPILOTS
Football award for a nonplayer COACHOFTHEYEAR
Forensics focus, often DNA
Futurists SEERS
Getty Museum pieces ART
Graceful tree ELM
Grand Canyon worker BURRO
Greek mountain peak OSSA
Grifter's offerings SCAMS
Guess made while cruising (Abbr.) ETA
Guy in a sty BOAR
Ham sandwich bread, often RYE
Handkerchief relatives BANDANAS
Highland youth LASS
Highly seasoned dishes OLIOS
Hop on board RIDE
Hot under the collar IRATE
It may be on the house? LIEN
It's often lied about AGE
Italian wine city ASTI
Join forces UNITE
Keep time, in a way TAP
Clues Answers
Kept in custody DETAINED
Kind of mill or band STEEL
Land subdivisions TRACTS
Larger-than-life story EPIC
Laryngitis symptom RASP
Legal references STATUTES
Lighted torch FLAMBEAU
Lightens, as a burden EASES
Like some WWII battles NAVAL
Lip-curling smile SNEER
Liver secretion BILE
Moronic beginning? OXY
Name in the Beatles' inner circle ONO
Niagara's source ERIE
Oahu garlands LEIS
On open waters ASEA
One flying at a leisurely pace BALLOONIST
Palindromic preposition ERE
Part of a heavy-rain pair CATS
Perfect scores TENS
Person from Perth AUSSIE
Peter the Great's title TSAR
Photographers' requests SMILES
Pile on the praise EXALT
Princess Fiona in "Shrek," e.g. OGRESS
Provide party food CATER
Pub order ALE
Pullulate TEEM
Quiz or exam TEST
Rich flavor SAPOR
River into the Severn AVON
Rock concert pit MOSH
Seagoing pronoun HER
Second place finisher FIRSTRUNNERUP
Setting for ''Young Frankenstein'' LAB
Shoulder, as a burden BEAR
Shouts to bullfighters OLES
Sicilian spewer ETNA
Singer LaBelle PATTI
Sloth's hangout TREE
Spring purchase, perhaps SEED
Spruce up again, as a hedge RETRIM
Starter for 18-Across BEL
Stir up INCITE
Stop sign color RED
Store runner (Abbr.) MGR
Storied Kansan canine TOTO
Strategic kickoff ONSIDE
Street show RAREE
Suckle NURSE
Suffix for ordinal numbers ETH
Suffix with "prosper" OUS
Suit, often BUSINESSATTIRE
Supply with a staff MAN
Swabbies TARS
Take at a concert GATE
The fable guy AESOP
The Way TAO
The whole shooting match ALL
They fly higher than anyone ASTRONAUTS
They're decked with boughs of holly HALLS
Time Warner merger partner, in 2000 AOL
Track record? BET
Trough fill FEED
Tutor of royalty ANNA
Twisting turn ESS
Van Gogh's missing piece? EAR
Vast South American region GUIANA
Way to ancient Rome ITER
Web location SITE
What paper towels do ABSORB
Whittles down PARES
Wilhelm and Axton HOYTS
With 57-Across, a cheese variety PAESE
Word with china or spur BONE
Young man LAD
___ buco (veal dish) OSSO
___ Lanka SRI