Newsday.com - May 4 2008

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Clues Answers
''Let It Snow! . . .'' lyricist CAHN
'80s skating star ZAYAK
'92 presidential candidate PEROT
Abrasive material GRIT
Actor Diggs TAYE
Actress Collette TONI
Alain's ally AMI
All over again ANEW
Alpaca relative LLAMA
Annoy incessantly DRIVEBUGGY
Annoys TEASES
Another name for B CFLAT
Attached, in a way TIEDON
Author Jong ERICA
Bad behavior SINS
Baking pans TINS
Bar bill TAB
Bark sharply YIP
Baseball great Gehrig LOU
Be frugal STINT
Becomes known to DAWNSON
Beer vessel STEIN
Ben Stiller's mom ANNEMEARA
Biblical matriarch SARAH
Big family TRIBE
Bill Maher network HBO
Bit of current AMP
Breezed through ACED
Brooklynese pronoun DEM
Carrie Fisher role LEIA
Carry out EXECUTE
Certain chorister ALTO
Chest wood CEDAR
Church contribution TITHE
City on the Arabian Sea KARACHI
Clique INGROUP
Color over REDYE
Comics superheroes XMEN
Consider DEEM
Corp. execs VPS
Cote comment BAA
Criticize SLAM
Crowd sound ROAR
Crusading journalist Broun HEYWOOD
Cry of delight OOH
Cut off LOP
Den TVROOM
Diner sandwich BLT
Director Craven WES
Director Howard et al. RONS
Distinctive times ERAS
Diversify one's skills CROSSTRAIN
Domineering AUTOCRATIC
Drilling off. SGT
Economist's concern BUSINESSCYCLE
Eight furlongs ONEMILE
Eminent concert pianist VANCLIBURN
Except for SAVE
Fanatic ZEALOT
Fishing gear TRAWLNET
Flat-screen ancestors CRTS
Food Network VIP EMERIL
Former Soviet republic ARMENIA
Fragrance AROMA
Frenzied AMOK
Friend of Zephir the monkey BABAR
Fury IRE
Gobbled up ATE
Gold unit KARAT
Grade-school break RECESS
Headquartered BASED
Hearty greeting BEARHUG
Clues Answers
Hole in one, on a par three EAGLE
Hosp. area ICU
Hostile UGLY
Ill-mannered BOORISH
In any way ATALL
In the matter of ASTO
Keg customer FRATHOUSE
Kermit's creator HENSON
Kids' game TBALL
Kind of committee ADHOC
Kitchen-drawer implements OPENERS
Kvetch MOANER
Legal locale VENUE
Letters on Sputnik CCCP
Lionel and O'Neill ANAGRAMS
Liquefied MOLTEN
Lithium-__ battery ION
Make a mess of things ERR
Mediation agcy. NLRB
Naval flag ENSIGN
Near-Earth asteroid EROS
New York college IONA
New-word creation COINAGE
Nintendo competitor SEGA
One with no complaints HAPPYCAMPER
Outrigger, for example CANOE
Pigeon sound COO
Plastic wrap SARAN
Playwright Ayckbourn ALAN
Poetic Muse ERATO
Poetic spheres ORBS
Polite refusal NOTHANKS
Pond floater LILYPAD
Poultry purchase CAPON
Pound puppies, probably MUTTS
Prefix for trust ANTI
Prehistoric ANCIENT
Prepare to go skating LACEUP
Pretentious type SNOB
Previous engagements PLANS
Publicize AIR
Put a name to IDED
Quaint oath EGAD
Ready to go SET
Reducing plans DIETS
Rights org. ACLU
San __ Obispo, CA LUIS
Sandwich breads RYES
Sci-fi device TRACTORBEAM
Scoundrels LOUSES
Sharp-tongued ACID
Shaving mishap NICK
Sign of a stage hit SRO
Simple machine, in physics INCLINEDPLANE
Solo ALONE
Soup cooker POT
Sr. lobby AARP
Star of the first ''King Kong'' WRAY
Thatcher or Heath TORY
Town, so to speak BURG
Unpretentious quality EASINESS
Vermont granite center BARRE
Vienna-based org. OPEC
Viking wife of the comics HELGA
Vocal ORAL
Walesa of Poland LECH
When day begins SUNUP
When shadows are shortest NOON
Where St. Moritz is ALPS
Word-breaker RENEGER
WWII journalist PYLE
__ Stanley Gardner ERLE