Newsday.com - May 23 2012

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Clues Answers
''The Odd Couple'' playwright SIMON
''The Raven'' writer POE
''This is how it's done'' LIKESO
''You don't have to tell me'' IKNOW
Alias preceder AKA
Allow LET
Annoyance PEST
Auction off SELL
Brandy flavoring APRICOT
Cable TV chef EMERIL
Caesarean phrase ETTU
Captain of industry CZAR
Captain's journal LOG
Cause to smile AMUSE
Chew out SCOLD
Chopped into cubes DICED
Clears up, as misconceptions DISPELS
Corp. money manager CFO
Crop up ARISE
Curved brackets, for short PARENS
Declared under oath SWORE
Door pounder's cry OPENUP
Enviable vantage point LOFTYPERCH
Existed BEEN
Expend USE
Fable source AESOP
Feudal lord LIEGE
Food-freezing agent DRYICE
Ground down ERODED
He reached his peak in 1806 ZEBULONPIKE
Hip-hop music RAP
Home to many Kurds IRAN
Hotel rm. identifiers NOS
Hydrogen's atomic number ONE
Irritated IRKED
It sounds just like ''you'' EWE
James of ''The Godfather'' CAAN
Job applicant's quest OFFER
Makes eyes at OGLES
Clues Answers
March 17 honoree STPAT
Medicine man SHAMAN
MLB stats RBIS
Mongolia's home ASIA
Monopolist's portion ALL
More diluted WEAKER
More than miffed IRATE
Morocco's capital RABAT
Mouth, so to speak TRAP
Move on a rink ROLLERSKATE
Movie with a posse OATER
Muddied up ROILED
Not in use IDLE
Not working today OFF
Noticed SPIED
Novelist __ Mae Brown RITA
Prayer closings AMENS
Prefix for system or sphere ECO
Protagonist HERO
Qualify for EARN
Ragú competitor PREGO
Rating units STARS
Sheep's cry BLEAT
Some circus performers CHIMPS
Stay to the finish LAST
Steak order RARE
Stork cousin IBIS
Tackle a slope SKI
The Sun's name SOL
Tied up LACED
Toast starter HERES
Toddler's togs ROMPERS
Tough to fathom DEEP
Tries a bite of SAMPLES
Ultimate degree NTH
Underside of some shoes RUBBERSOLE
Upper-left key ESC
Urges on PRODS
Valentine's Day bouquet ROSES