USA Today - Mar 14 2008

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Clues Answers
''Alas!'' DEARME
''East of Eden'' twin CAL
''Island in the Sun'' author Waugh ALEC
''Riders to the Sea'' playwright SYNGE
''Ta-ta!'' ADIEU
''The Master Builder'' playwright IBSEN
''___ con Dios!'' VAYA
A ''Peter Pan'' meanie SMEE
Answer to ''Do you come here often?'' EVERYNOWANDTHEN
Answer to ''Do you come here often?'' ONCEINAWHILE
Answer to ''Do you come here often?'' NOTREGULARLY
Brought a smile to AMUSED
Celebrity dinner ROAST
Certain fuel storage locale COALYARD
Charity's plea GIVE
Checked out EYED
Chinese society TONG
City about 30 miles from Des Moines AMES
Contributor to a clean sweep BROOM
Corporation rules BYLAWS
Country legend Tubb ERNEST
Debussy's ''Clair de ___'' LUNE
Designer Oscar de la ___ RENTA
Did some shaving PLANED
Dugout propellers OARS
Ease the way, in a way PAVE
Elective course ART
English seaside resort (with ''Great'') YARMOUTH
First name in student loans? SALLIE
Glacier composition ICE
Had in mind MEANT
Hardly oblivious AWARE
He's statuesque OSCAR
Hit man's purchase SILENCER
Hook-billed wading bird IBIS
Houston assurance AOKAY
In a minute SOON
Clues Answers
In addition ASWELL
Kane of soapdom ERICA
Lhasa ___ (some pets) APSOS
Like Culkin in a 1990 film ALONE
Lovely lady PERI
Luau entertainment HULA
Made haste TORE
Man with a van, perhaps MOVER
Mat victory PIN
McKellen of ''Scandal'' IAN
Moth-repellent wood CEDAR
Mountain ash ROWAN
Nine-man band, e.g. NONET
Nosy fish GAR
Not so hot? TEPID
Once more ANEW
One-time NBC owner RCA
Penn and Connery SEANS
Position STANCE
Ramblin' Wreck's Georgia ___ TECH
Ready for plucking RIPE
Request from the dentist WIDER
Rigging supports TOPMASTS
Rioters run this way AMOK
Schooner's attachment SAIL
See ya in Hawaii? ALOHA
Seraglio room ODA
Sheepish OVINE
Shipper's assignment CARGO
Spingarn Medal org. NAACP
Summer helper INTERN
Tithe amount TENTH
Toxic African snakes MAMBAS
Tram load ORE
Very good, in slang PHAT
Virtual auction house EBAY
Well-known Jane DOE