Universal - Oct 12 2006

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Clues Answers
''Cannery Row'' character DORA
''Diana'' crooner ANKA
''Take ___ down memory lane ...'' ATRIP
''The Bluest Eye'' author Morrison TONI
Assure the accuracy of RECHECK
Backs of thighs HAMS
Black, in verse EBON
Blow one's stack ERUPT
Boer journey TREK
Break bread EAT
Cab Calloway's forte SCAT
Celestial bear URSA
Change just a bit TWEAK
Coal container BIN
Continental cash EUROS
County in the Sunshine State DADE
Crumble GOTOPIECES
Dance that originated in Bohemia POLKA
Demean ABASE
Dismissive gesture SHRUG
Dissertation finisher, hopefully PHD
Does the getaway driving, e.g. ABETS
Ending for the very best EST
Ensnare MESH
Executive's incentive BONUS
Felt crummy AILED
Finish GOTHEDISTANCE
First Oscar winner for Animated Feature SHREK
Fondled rudely PAWED
Furniture wood TEAK
Garage sale supplier, often ATTIC
Gender-changing suffix ESS
Grand EPIC
Greek group in America, briefly FRAT
Greek war god ARES
Gun's recoil KICK
Hauler's fee TOWAGE
He was bound to escape HOUDINI
Hit alternative MISS
Clues Answers
Hocked PAWNED
Hooded Egyptian ASP
Instrument played by Bach ORGAN
Irving sleepyhead RIP
Jules Verne genre SCIFI
Kind of learning ROTE
Knocks for a loop AWES
Low dams WEIRS
Malamute's burden, perhaps SLED
Miner's find SEAM
Mongolian ''place without water'' GOBI
Not on all fours ERECT
Number of bulbs? WATTS
Old West assemblage POSSE
One side of the generation gap, often TEENAGERS
Paraphernalia GEAR
Part of a movie? ROLE
Person of wealth or influence NABOB
Physicians, briefly DOCS
Pi-sigma connection RHO
Put on, as a production STAGE
Quite a spell AGES
Relating to the ear OTIC
Request payment DUN
Risk it all GOFORBROKE
Singly ALONE
Sock type TUBE
Some Kachina carvers HOPI
Sports center ARENA
Summer Olympics event WATERPOLO
Take it as it comes GOWITHTHEFLOW
Take steps ACT
Turned yellow? RAN
Unflattering gossip DIRT
Weeknightly monologist LENO
Well-chosen APT
Wind down ABATE
You can always count on them ABACI
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