Universal - Feb 26 2003

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Clues Answers
''--- Be'' (Beatles) LETIT
''A Chapter on Ears'' essayist ELIA
''And --- There Were None'' THEN
''Fresh!'' follow-up SLAP
''Keep it in'' notations STETS
''Open 9 --- 6'' TIL
''Smoking ___?'' ORNON
''The forbidden fragrance'' TABU
--- and void NULL
Abu Dhabi biggies EMIRS
Accelerates SPEEDSUP
Address in Calcutta SAHIB
Admirer BEAU
Alphabetize SORT
An emotion FEAR
Angry dog's response SNARL
Answer with an attitude SASS
Arabian Peninsula capital (Var.) SANAA
Architect's construction MODEL
Article in Augsburg EINE
Artillery sound BOOM
Ashe Stadium necessity NET
Bad smell STENCH
Bad way to run AMOK
Baker's utensil SIEVE
Band over a bathing suit, perhaps SASH
Bathe LAVE
Boar's weapon TUSK
Bound bundle BALE
Brazilian dance SAMBA
Brown, fuzzy fruit KIWI
Burnable medium, briefly CDR
Card game authority HOYLE
Charlie Chan portrayer Warner OLAND
Chatted CHEWEDTHEFAT
Cheap tires RETREADS
Choosing word EENIE
Collections of sayings ANA
Comforting words ITSOK
Coptic fathers ABBAS
Critic with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star EBERT
Cucamonga's front RANCHO
Dined on crow? ATEONESWORDS
Dog treat BONE
Ducks renowned for their down EIDERS
East ___ Alto, Calif. PALO
Ecclesiastical council SYNOD
Editor's command STET
Emerson's ''jealous mistress'' ART
Exploiters USERS
Extol LAUD
Family lineage diagram TREE
Far from flighty STAID
Feet are divisions of a meter in this POEM
Five minutes after a quarter of TENTO
Flagellation LASHING
Flavoring of orange and almond ORGEAT
Foo Fighters frontman Dave GROHL
Fr. noblewoman STE
Gas pump choice, for short REG
German surrealist Max ERNST
Give olfactory offense REEK
Go over and over REHASH
Gridiron specialist PUNTER
Help, as in an operation ASSIST
High spirit ELAN
Impoverished existence FROMHANDTOMOUTH
In improved health FITTER
In the distance AFAR
In ___ (before noon) THEAM
Increasingly deep inlet RIA
Inherent ability APTITUDE
Islamic chieftain AMEER
Istanbul bigwig AGHA
It can float during the fall LEAF
It may be vacant STARE
Clues Answers
Keats' ''Bards of Passion and of Mirth,'' e.g. ODE
King Harald's predecessor OLAV
Larry, Curly and Moe, for example TRIO
Less than any NONE
Life preserver material KAPOK
Like a storied duckling UGLY
Like autumn leaves SERE
Like loving couples, e.g. ATTACHED
Link to another story? STAIR
Major network CBS
Memorable date in history DDAY
More than just interested AVID
Moroccan capital RABAT
Nerve type OPTIC
Nevada resort site TAHOE
Nobelist Niels BOHR
Norm on the links PAR
Norse god ODIN
Not docked ATSEA
Not ___ (far from optimal) SOHOT
Novelist's concern PLOT
On the level? EVEN
Out for the night ABED
Outcome RESULT
Overlays with metal CLADS
Part of a film CLIP
Part of some bio titles ALIFE
Party times EVES
Past the expiration date STALE
Perfume attribute AROMA
Periclean promenade STOA
Picasso's lid BERET
Pismire ANT
Politician's nemesis? SLIPOFTHETONGUE
Power unit WATT
Prefix with magnetic or dynamic AERO
Premium chargers, briefly HMOS
Prevent from entering DEBAR
Producers' nemesis FLOP
Raced TORE
Ready for battle ARMEDTOTHETEETH
Recipe amts. TSPS
Reduce to rags TATTER
Reef denizen ALGA
Rubbernecker STARER
Russian news agency TASS
Sacks for Wacs COTS
Sermon on the Mount preposition UNTO
Slowly flows out SEEPS
Soak DRENCH
Some misses overseas, briefly SRTAS
Some wide shoes EES
Storage locale SHELF
Sub-conscious sensor? SONAR
Suffered a loss TASTEDDEFEAT
Tender legbone SHIN
Text PROSE
Think things over and over STEW
Threatened snake's sound SSS
Took it like a man BITTHEBULLET
Toy on a track RACER
Trapper's prize HIDE
Type of time-out NAP
U.K. military fliers RAF
Ukraine's capital KIEV
Usually unbeatable rivals NEMESES
Vile's apt anagram EVIL
Western defense org. NATO
What German shepherds earn? EUROS
Where the eagle has landed? AERIE
Wingtip-to-wingtip dimensions SPANS
Word in a motorist's question WHERE
Word mistakenly substituted for ''fewer'' LESS
Zoo houseful APES
___ the hills (ancient) OLDAS
___-eyed SLOE