USA Today - Sep 8 2006

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Clues Answers
''So long, amigo'' ADIOS
''The Beverly Hillbillies'' cast member BAER
A major network CBS
A really good place to sit? PEW
All the stage is his world ACTOR
Alley-___ (basketball pass) OOP
Art Deco designer ERTE
Author Umberto ECO
Be inquisitive ASK
Big name in shirts IZOD
Bush senior, e.g. ELDER
Cassowary cousin EMU
Ceremony RITE
Church platform BEMA
College cheer RAH
Composer Stravinsky IGOR
Defense's focal point ALIBI
Dyed-in-the-wool AVID
Farm measure ACRE
Fatigued WEARY
Fed offering TBILL
Fire engine and beet, e.g. REDS
First name in country music REBA
Fishtail on ice, e.g. SKID
Flanders river YSER
Follow a pattern? SEW
French legislature SENAT
Fresh ANEW
Guileful SLY
He has his own army ARNIE
Info about touchdowns ETAS
Insect with a slender waist WASP
Insult that contains a degree? GOCLIMBATREE
Involving the ear OTIC
Knight's address SIR
Moon over my ami? LUNE
Mope SULK
Most played parts of LPs, you'd think SIDEAS
Mundane HOHUM
Clues Answers
Musical speed TEMPO
Not cook EATOUT
Notorious bacteria ECOLI
Old movie theater name BIJOU
Perform in a tournament of yore JOUST
Pet ___ (grievance) PEEVE
Pipsqueak's problem SIZE
Poisonous substance TOXIN
Reagan's secretary of commerce who has a degree? MALCOLMBALDRIGE
Record jacket SLEEVE
Resort town near Santa Barbara OJAI
Ripken, Jr. or Sr. CAL
Rouse BESTIR
Sana citizen YEMENI
Sauna STEAMBATH
Scatter STREW
Seed or street SESAME
Ship sunk in 1898 MAINE
Shocked responses GASPS
Small ornamental case ETUI
Sort of model SCALE
Spanish estuary RIA
Speedy steed ARAB
Stable morsel OAT
Sunflower relatives ASTERS
Swine enclosures STIES
The ranch in ''Giant'' REATA
They're administered in ERs IVS
Things to squirrel away ACORNS
Thurston Howell III portrayer with a degree? JIMBACKUS
Tibetan monks LAMAS
Town employee of yore CRIER
Two quartets combined OCTET
Used all available credit (with ''out'') MAXED
Vegas staple that has a degree? ONEARMBANDIT
Wartime entertainer group USO
Weaving equipment LOOMS
WWII craft LST
___ Paulo, Brazil SAO