USA Today - Oct 11 2006

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Clues Answers
''Brian's Song'' star CAAN
''She loves me'' unit PETAL
''The best is ___ to come!'' YET
''The Real World'' network MTV
''Turn to Stone'' rock grp. ELO
''___ la vista, baby'' HASTA
Actress Virginia MADSEN
Alfred Hitchcock in the background, e.g. CAMEO
Animated Petunia, for one PIG
Assemble the components SETUP
Babies PAMPERS
Beats by a nose NIPS
Blind strips SLATS
Bold, impatient type, astrologically ARIES
Business letter abbr., perhaps INC
Cause to be immobile STUN
Climax beginning ANTI
Community hootenanny SING
Conned one SAP
Curative locale SPA
Current description ACDC
Dashed dream SHATTEREDVISION
Downsizes PARES
Dramatic device IRONY
Duel prelude SLAP
Eliminate as excessive LOP
Exterminator's quarry PEST
Famous plaintiff ROE
Feature of ''fat'' but not ''fate'' SHORTA
Friendly intro? USER
Genesis son ENOS
Give off EMIT
Gourmand's pastime EATING
Grammatical gaffe SPLITINFINITIVE
Greek letter ETA
Hindu social group CASTE
Hirsute ones MALES
It's as good as a mile MISS
It's in the center of center court NET
IV measures CCS
Clues Answers
Joie de vivre ELAN
Keogh plan relative IRA
Lauder of perfumes ESTEE
Lumbago, e.g. ACHE
Menotti's shepherd boy AMAHL
Moderate paces CANTERS
Most dispassionate ICIEST
Name on a pump ARCO
Nitti's bane NESS
Not in motion ATREST
Old pro VET
Pacific salmon NOVA
Partner of games FUN
Petri dish gel AGAR
Petroleum residue TAR
Physiological pentad SENSES
Pizza perimeter CRUST
Precarious perch LIMB
Rare hit TRIPLE
Remained unused SAT
Short cheer RAH
Short drive SPIN
Snaky shape ESS
Some chamber music instruments VIOLAS
Some forest rangers ELKS
Something I can't use, but you can ARE
Sushi servings EELS
Symbolic incentive CARROT
They hold sippy cups TOTS
Three-dimensional scene DIORAMA
Thurman of films UMA
Trident part TINE
TV's Gray and Moran ERINS
Unfulfilled vow BROKENPROMISE
Vent sound HISS
Weeding implement HOE
Will bequest, perhaps ESTATE
Word with ''yes'' or ''dear'' SIR
Word with thumb or loser SORE
___ in Tango TAS