USA Today - Sep 20 2006

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Clues Answers
''All My Children'' regular ERICA
27th U.S. President TAFT
50-50 chance TOSSUP
A salmon that has spawned KELT
A star represents it STATE
Able to creep you out EERIE
Aug. 15, 1945 VJDAY
Banana oil, e.g. ESTER
Bassett of film ANGELA
Billion-year stretch EON
Blockhead CLOD
Blown away AWED
Brazilian soccer hero PELE
Burns superficially SCORCHES
Button on 51-Across REC
City of Afghanistan HERAT
College hero, briefly BMOC
Comic Philips EMO
Costa ___ RICA
Dorm denizen COED
Entertainment system component VCR
Feline female of film ELSA
Flightless fowl EMU
Full of promise, as one's future ROSY
German wheels AUDI
Good boy's heart? OLE
Green lights OKAYS
Habitually humiliated human DOORMAT
He sang about Alice ARLO
Head of a ranch? STEER
Healthy resorts SPAS
Helm heading, sometimes ESE
Initial serving at lunch? BLT
It comes between Washington and here SLEPT
It makes Paul feminine INE
Java vessel URN
Knee-high to a grasshopper TINY
Krypton and oxygen, e.g. GASES
Log lodging CABIN
Clues Answers
Longest sentence LIFE
Ma plays it in front of people CELLO
Monica's brother on TV ROSS
Monopolize HOG
Mounted GOTON
Oligarchy, e.g. ELITE
Pack again, as groceries REBAG
Page of music? PATTI
Philippine banana tree ABACA
Plunder SACK
Positive or negative item ION
Princess Diana's family name SPENCER
Rapper-actor ICET
Removed soap and dirt, e.g. RINSEDOFF
Rub off ERASE
Santa ___ winds ANA
Say ''somethin''' ELIDE
Scott of ''Happy Days'' BAIO
Scouting job, briefly RECON
Seemingly makes more pleasant SUGARCOATS
Sills selections ARIAS
Snap-brimmed lid PORKPIEHAT
Some works from Wordsworth ODES
Soon-Yi's mom MIA
Stellar hunter ORION
Suffix like -like OID
Supporting stalk STIPE
They inform NEWSMEDIA
Thurston Howell had several DINNERJACKETS
Tie the knot WED
Tropical tree ICACO
Van Druten's ''I ___ Camera'' AMA
What the vain may go on EGOTRIPS
Where the N.Y. Knicks play MSG
Winter blanket SNOW
Woman's garment COCKTAILDRESS
Word with soccer or ''Hi'' MOM
Word-of-mouth ORAL
Yankee homecoming? RUN