USA Today - Feb 19 2007

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Clues Answers
''Absolutely Fabulous'' character EDINA
''Paradise Lost'' character SATAN
''Star Wars'' director LUCAS
''We want ___!'' (baseball fans' chant) AHIT
''Wreck'' or ''car'' preceder RENTA
A sudden numbing dread PALL
Accordion component REED
Alter to make better AMEND
Be taken with ADORE
Become edible, in a way RIPEN
Big name in cosmetics ESTEE
Blade of yore SNEE
Bologna buck EURO
Brandy-based drinks STINGERS
Bump on a log, e.g. NODE
Chip off the old urn? SHARD
Company's alternative to bankruptcy SALE
Conserve SAVE
Cowell's show, familiarly IDOL
Cream of the crop ELITE
Dieter's bane SWEETS
Eggnog enhancement NUTMEG
Electric stun gun TASER
Eye unsubtly OGLE
Father of basketball NAISMITH
Fay's role in ''King Kong'' ANN
Fever fit AGUE
Fight card listing EVENT
Fine steed ARAB
Fish market feature ODOR
Followed unobserved TAILED
Formicary member ANT
Friend in need ALLY
Gape producer AWE
Gradually decrease WANE
Grammy winner Lauper CYNDI
Gregarious get-together SOCIALGATHERING
Hardens STEELS
Clues Answers
Have problems sleeping TOSS
Hebrew judge ELI
Hindu royal (Var.) RANEE
Indications SIGNS
Insect stage ADULT
It may be uncontrollable URGE
Kidney-related RENAL
Kind of cracker SODA
L-o-n-g time EON
Lanai ring LEI
Latin bandleader Puente TITO
Like some vaccines ORAL
Made varsity LETTERED
Man among Stooges MOE
No longer one-sided EVEN
Norma or Charlotte RAE
Online journal BLOG
Pan counterpart RAVE
Papers signifying ownership DEEDS
Period of distinction ERA
Pizza producer OVEN
Put another way RESTATED
Reunion attendee GRAD
Rude and insensitive one BOOR
Runners support it SLED
Russian river or mountains URAL
Rustic poems (Var.) IDYLS
Scout's discovery TALENT
Skyscraping TALL
Source of basalt LAVA
Start to form, as a storm BREW
Take back RECANT
They're offensive and looking to score ENDS
Three for nanny? ENS
United Nations group GENERALASSEMBLY
Use for the conference room BUSINESSMEETING
___ colada PINA
___ Valley, Calif. NAPA