Newsday.com - Aug 16 2009

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Clues Answers
''. . . and the __ of defeat'' AGONY
''Aha!'' OHISEE
''Back __ hour'' INAN
''Bali __'' HAI
''Juliet is the sun!'' speaker ROMEO
''King of the Road'' singer ROGERMILLER
''Me, too!'' SOAMI
''Now!'' ASAP
''O Pioneers!'' author CATHER
''The Gold-Bug'' author POE
''The King of the Cowboys'' ROYROGERS
''The Lion King'' composer ELTONJOHN
''Well, fancy __!'' THAT
''__ Three Lives'' ILED
1936 Olympics hero OWENS
2008 Olympics host CHINA
Abacus parts BEADS
Actress Davis GEENA
After the buzzer LATE
Arroz con __ POLLO
Averse to first moves SHY
Base-running term TAGUP
Beehive State native UTE
Beer topper HEAD
Belgrade native SERB
Best achievable OPTIMAL
Billie Jean King won it in 1972 FRENCHOPEN
Bluish green NILE
Boston Marathon month APRIL
Box-office hit, slangily BOFF
Brewpub products ALES
Burst, as of laughter PEAL
Camper's digs TENT
Carson's successor LENO
Catch sight of ESPY
Cattail locale MARSH
CBS founder PALEY
Certain Celt GAEL
Change, as legislation AMEND
Chinese tea CHA
Clip filler AMMO
Closet pest MOTH
Closet wood CEDAR
Computer-maxim acronym GIGO
Corn bread PONE
Cruel dude OGRE
Customer-service offerings HOTLINES
Decks out FESTOONS
Dictatorial BOSSY
Disney dog GOOFY
Eats nothing FASTS
Egyptian goddess ISIS
Ending for bed or home STEAD
Fairway position LIE
Gallery-funding org. NEA
Ghost __ chance OFA
Glasses, informally SPECS
Go parasailing SOAR
Greet the day ARISE
Group of groupers SCHOOL
Hatcher or Polo TERI
Hawaii, once: Abbr. TERR
Hit-single listings CHARTS
Hole makers AWLS
Hosp. areas ORS
Hot-dog topping CHILI
Ice-cream concoctions PARFAITS
In itself PERSE
Industrious sort BEAVER
Infant's footwear BOOTEE
Ingredient in chicken à la king HEAVYCREAM
Iowa State's city AMES
Italian city PARMA
Clues Answers
Italian inventor Alessandro VOLTA
Jai alai ball PELOTA
King Gillette invention SAFETYRAZOR
Kitchen accessory TOWEL
Knowing AWARE
Koran focus ALLAH
Lampoon ROAST
Leering look OGLE
Less doubtful SURER
Light measure LUMEN
Lily-like plant HOSTA
Loch of fame NESS
Lotte of film LENYA
Made two boards out of one SAWED
Marina tenant BOAT
Melville whaler AHAB
Neanderthals CAVEMEN
Neck of the woods AREA
Number on a health-insurance card COPAY
Obviously sad TEARY
Of a foot bone TARSAL
One in battle circa 1901 BOER
Opted for CHOSE
Otto I's realm: Abbr. HRE
Part of a digital-watch display COLON
Periods of service TERMS
Place for King Arthur's knights ROUNDTABLE
Powerful presidential appointee CZAR
President born Leslie King Jr. GERALDFORD
Raptor's gripper TALON
Really steamed IRATE
Sail extender SPRIT
Sailor's ''Halt!'' AVAST
Sailor's saint ELMO
Shell-game spheroid PEA
Shimon of Israel PERES
Shoot the breeze RAP
Shot off FIRED
Singer Fitzgerald ELLA
Site of King Louis XIV's palace VERSAILLES
Snickering sound TEHEE
Some frame shapes OVALS
Some NCOs SGTS
Son of Seth ENOS
Speaker's digression TANGENT
Spring-loaded snare BEARTRAP
St. crosser AVE
Stage item PROP
Standing O, for instance HAND
Start the pot ANTE
Stephen King novel THESHINING
Suffix like -like INE
Tailless primate APE
Tale-telling ''Uncle'' REMUS
Tax-return pro CPA
Tears into RIPS
Texter's instrument PHONE
Theater genre DRAMA
Therefore ERGO
To the left, at sea APORT
Tummy trouble AGITA
TV host Mandel HOWIE
Type of S&L account IRA
Utterly confused LOST
Waistband material ELASTIC
Way out there AFAR
Were in accord JIBED
Where cowpokes roam RANGE
With swiftness APACE
Works hard TOILS
Zhivago's love LARA
Zillions ALOT
__-Caps (candy brand) SNO