Universal - Oct 27 2006

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Clues Answers
''The Trip to Bountiful'' author FOOTE
Advances against earnings DRAWS
Avoided an accident, in a way SWERVED
Backsides PRATS
Baddest of the bad WORST
Biblical dozen TRIBES
Bit of embroidery PICOT
Bits of inside information TIPOFFS
Braying beast ASS
Care for TREAT
Cognizant AWARE
Complaint overheard in a restaurant (Part 1) THERESADEAD
Computer key DELETE
Contract add-on RIDER
Diabolical sort FIEND
Dick Tracy's hat FEDORA
Ended a detente REARMED
Engine part CAM
Exchange for money REDEEM
Farming implement SEEDER
Feels acute distress GRIEVES
Fleet of foot SWIFT
Flipped, as pages (with ''through'') LEAFED
Hang-ups SNAGS
Hemmed without hawing? SEWED
Hindu sage RISHI
Holm of ''Chariots of Fire'' IAN
Intrinsically PERSE
It can be big or little TOE
It may be cast out DEMON
Jury makeup PEERS
King's ''___ Sematary'' PET
Lilly or Whitney ELI
Magnetite, e.g. ORE
Mixes, as companies MERGES
Mouse place PAD
Musician Turner IKE
Clues Answers
Mutilates, in a way MAIMS
Nafta ratifier USA
Off-center ASKEW
One without a permanent address NOMAD
Painful trials ORDEALS
Paris pancake CREPE
Parish head RECTOR
Part of a stairstep RISER
Passing vote YEA
Perceive GRASP
Pins are made here MAT
Place aboard STOW
Portends BODES
Potato or needle part EYE
Pulled back RECEDED
Race with a baton RELAY
Ran under the tap, e.g. RINSED
Refresh RENEW
Refrigerator part CRISPER
Restaurant complaint (Part 2) FLYINMYSOUP
Ricocheting bullet sound PING
Sao ___ PAULO
Scene of confusion BEDLAM
She vanted to be left alone GRETA
Site of a famous wall, once BERLIN
Skinflint MISER
Smaller in quantity LESSER
Solve the code DECRYPT
Sullivan's ''really big'' one SHEW
Tammany boss TWEED
Tears asunder RENDS
Timer's start? TWO
Tragic Ethiopian princess AIDA
Waiter's deduction (Part 1) ITCOMMITTED
Waiter's deduction (Part 2) INSECTICIDE
Walk all over USE
Wood used for tool handles ASH