Universal - Feb 5 2007

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Clues Answers
"He's making ___ and checking it twice" ALIST
"Long time, ___!" NOSEE
"Meet Me ___ Louis" INST
"Pygmalion" writer's monogram GBS
"Shot" a baseball pitcher may take CORTISONE
"Such a tragedy" SOSAD
"The Count of Monte Cristo" author DUMAS
''Diary of ___ Housewife'' AMAD
''So what ___ is new?'' ELSE
''___ say more?'' NEEDI
A smaller amount of LESS
Abbr. akin to "yadda, yadda, yadda" ETC
Add, as a rider TACKON
Admits (with ''to'') OWNSUP
Aka, in business DBA
Al Capp creation DAISYMAE
Andretti's auto RACER
Atwood's "___ and Crake" ORYX
Aussie bird EMU
Bag of chips, say NOSH
Bald-faced thing LIE
Baseball's "Little Giant" Mel OTT
Bath powder TALC
Be an ungracious winner, in a way GLOAT
Beginners' skiing area BUNNYSLOPE
Bias TILT
BMW competitor AUDI
Bounding egg dish? TOADINTHEHOLE
Boxer's jumpy cheap shot? RABBITPUNCH
BP rival HESS
Burqa owner, perhaps ARAB
Capital of Morocco RABAT
Carol contraction TIS
Cash on hand? BET
Caught some rays TANNED
CEO or VP EXEC
Choir recess APSE
Club costs DUES
Comfortable king or queen BED
Common printing error TYPO
Constellation known as "the Hunter" ORION
Convex molding OVOLO
Cover with hoarfrost RIME
Cute Aussie critter KOALA
D.C. fund-raiser PAC
Danube tributary ISAR
Didn't sink FLOATED
Dutch painter Jan STEEN
E pluribus ___ UNUM
Eisenhower's nickname IKE
Engraving pens STYLI
Far from sterile GERMY
Felt concern for CARED
Felt sorry for PITIED
Fencing sword EPEE
Fit for pickin' RIPE
Flow back EBB
Flow back, as a tide EBB
Fries go-with, sometimes SHAKE
Girth control methods? DIETS
Gossip column tidbit ITEM
Great report card column AAAA
Henhouse squeak PEEP
Home to lots of yaks ASIA
Hopkins of "Hannibal" ANTHONY
Hopping place for bargain hunters? FLEAMARKETS
Hotel-room fee RATE
Insurrectionist Turner NAT
International oil cartel OPEC
Invoice fig. AMT
It comes with strings attached KITE
Italian volcano ETNA
Itty-bitty EENSY
Johnny Carson character CARNAC
Kachina doll makers HOPI
Kipling's ''Rikki-___-Tavi'' TIKKI
Lamb owner, in song MARY
Less hazardous SAFER
Clues Answers
Lie TALLTALE
Like some flu ASIAN
Likely Razzie nominees BADACTORS
Make right CORRECT
Marine biology subject AMEBA
Metrical feet IAMBI
Morning waker-upper LATTE
Moves crabwise SIDLES
Mr. Television, Milton BERLE
Nautical seven SEAS
Nepal's capital KATMANDU
Nice noggin TETE
Oboes, e.g. REEDS
Off-the-script comment ADLIB
Picture puzzle REBUS
Piece of the rock? STONE
Pooch from "The Wizard of Oz" TOTO
Pops the top OPENS
Port near the Red Sea ADEN
Precious stone OPAL
Prefix with "meter" ALTI
Propagated BRED
Protested event, for short NTEST
Provoke jokingly TEASE
Public exhibition SHOW
Radical ULTRA
Reach the beach LAND
Restaurant with lots of syrup IHOP
Richie's mother, to Fonzie MRSC
Scot's "no" NAE
Scoundrelly ROGUISH
Second wife of Henry VIII BOLEYN
Sign before Virgo LEO
Singer Orbison ROY
Singing syllables TRAS
Sitcom episode premise, often HAREBRAINEDIDEA
Sitters make them? LAPS
Skiers' aid TBAR
Slender candles TAPERS
Snobbish AIRY
Some breaks RECESSES
Southern California's Santa ___ winds ANA
Southern speech pattern DRAWL
Spanish painter Jose SERT
Spendables in Rome, once LIRE
Spot for hops OAST
Spray prey PESTS
Spurts of activity ADOS
Stadium parts TIERS
Stomach muscles, briefly ABS
Stop in one's tracks HALT
Suddenly bright star NOVA
Surrealist artist Max ERNST
Terrestrial newts EFTS
Thriller author Deighton LEN
Tribunal that leaps to conclusions? KANGAROOCOURT
Turn away, as one's eyes AVERT
TV adjunct, perhaps RABBITEARS
Type of PC screen LCD
Type of tree ELM
Voided tennis shot LET
Walking on eggshells TENSE
Walsh and Harris EDS
Wannabe surfer HODAD
Web-footed mammal OTTER
What a power serve can lead to ACE
Where Ducks play with Penguins ARENA
White House annex WING
With all scores settled EVEN
Without moisture SERE
Word on a penny ONE
Words before ''vacation'' or ''drink'' INEEDA
Worker of the pit boss DEALER
___ d'Azur COTE
___ de menthe CREME
___ Lanka SRI
___ Penh, Cambodia (Var.) PNOM
___-de-camp AIDE