Newsday.com - Aug 9 2008

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Clues Answers
''Auntie Mame'' Oscar nominee CASS
''X-Files'' character DANA
''__ be an honor!'' ITD
Austrian director LANG
Bend out of shape WRITHE
Better trimmed LEANER
Bits of work ERGS
Black rock BASALT
Breaks off CEASES
Carries on WAGES
Charge ALLEGE
Chief concern TRIBE
Clever to the max NEATEST
Coach movers TEAMS
Columbus' goal INDIES
Completely clean SCOURED
Cores NUCLEI
Dig it ORE
Doings ACTION
Don't settle LITIGATE
Evinced obviously SCREAMED
Foil kin EPEES
Frantic MAD
G, vis-à-vis C SOL
Gable as a boy in ''Manhattan Melodrama'' ROONEY
Galley directive STET
Hint TINGE
Insisted SWORE
Is prone LIES
It's not there MIRAGE
Kevin Kline film DAVE
Kvetches MOANERS
Leather source ELK
Less sure CHANCIER
Made up for ATONED
Manifest ATTEST
Clues Answers
Michener non-fiction book IBERIA
Middle WAIST
Minor, maybe TEENAGER
More haunting EERIER
Most tired STALEST
Mother of Horus ISIS
NASA Ambassador of Exploration Award winner of '06 CRONKITE
Nickname of two Spice Girls MEL
Not cultivated UNTILLED
Not very thick SLIM
Perfidious ones RATS
Picture ENVISAGE
Pirate SEAROVER
Place for ''le nez'' TETE
Places for puddles RUTS
Preschoolers? ROE
Sloop accessory TARP
Smart DRESSY
Smith et al. ALS
Splendid REGAL
Starts to drop ABATES
Supremacy EMPIRE
Swamp thing MIASMA
Tattler CANARY
Times ERAS
Tobogganing site CHUTE
Topographical adjective TREELESS
Topographical adjective DESERT
Transported ENRAPT
Trash DELETE
Turns up COMES
USCGA grad ENS
Uses assonance RHYMES
Win a ''no blinking'' contest OUTSTARE
Young eels LARVAE
__ spin INA