USA Today - Dec 9 2008

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Clues Answers
''Au contraire!'' NOTSO
''Botch-___'' (Rosemary Clooney hit) AME
''Giant'' author Ferber EDNA
''Jour de fete'' director and star TATI
''Nope'' NAH
''___ Remember'' (Broadway standard) TRYTO
'50s Ford fiasco EDSEL
2500, in old Rome MMD
Ascap alternative BMI
Being, to Brutus ESSE
Best qualified ABLEST
Breathalyzer test flunkers SOTS
Brewer's aid OAST
Brilliantly colored fish OPAH
Brit's lunch, perhaps FISHANDCHIPS
Buss stop? LIP
Capone facial feature SCAR
CEO, CFO, etc. MGMT
Charlemagne's domain (Abbr.) HRE
Cheese in a red rind EDAM
Chicken general TSO
Craggy hill TOR
Cry of alarm YIPE
Disarray MESS
Embassy worker ATTACHE
Fateful time? DATEWITHDESTINY
Former name of Xiamen AMOY
Free-for-alls MELEES
French chef's seasoning SEL
Garfield dog ODIE
Gay leader? ENOLA
Genesis utopia EDEN
Gibson garnish ONION
Guitarist Clapton ERIC
Hasn't left ISIN
Huffed and puffed BLEW
Jeans material DENIM
Kind of jacket NEHRU
Kind of stock NOPAR
Clues Answers
Leandro's love ERO
Like the Leaning Tower of Pisa ATILT
Look that means ''look out'' EVILEYE
Looped handle, in archaeology ANSA
Loudness measures SONES
Low-lying area VALE
Many miles off AFAR
Moochers PARASITES
Nickname for a caravan critter SHIPOFTHEDESERT
Off one's rocker LOCO
Org. involved in seizures DEA
Original subway line in NYC IRT
Peloponnesian War winner SPARTA
Personal assistant AIDE
President Bartlett on ''The West Wing'' JOSIAH
Put on a pedestal IDEALIZED
Roll-call call YEA
Roman moon goddess LUNA
Roz portrayer on ''Frasier'' PERI
Sheltered, at sea ALEE
Shopaholic's delight SALE
Small batteries AAS
Snow removers? AERIALS
Some of Haydn's work CHAMBERMUSIC
Something to strike POSE
Sprightly dances JIGS
Statistical figures MODES
Suffix with ''president'' IAL
Sugar and spice container? GIRL
The ''S'' in T.S. Eliot STEARNS
Thermometer insertion point, perhaps EAR
Tiny fraction of a min. NSEC
Turned on a radio station TUNEDIN
Uses rollers SETS
Vet's employer, perhaps ZOO
Waterlocked land ISLET
Welcomed GREETED
Whitney with the gin ELI
___ up (come clean) FESS