Universal - Dec 14 2001

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Clues Answers
"Act" or "lock" opener INTER
"For crying out loud," e.g. IDIOM
"Murder on the ___ Express" ORIENT
"No ifs, ___ or buts" ANDS
"Sack" attachment KNAP
"They're ___!" (racetrack cry) OFF
"Without further ___ ..." ADO
"___ the Explorer" (kid's show) DORA
''S’'' asea AYE
''Take ---!'' THAT
--- gin fizz SLOE
1/500 of the Indianapolis 500 MILE
A mighty tree OAK
Actress ___ Dawn Chong RAE
Aerosmith's music ROCK
After-shoveling feeling ACHE
Apt. managers SUPERS
Architectural molding OGEE
Arctic seabird TERN
Ardor ZEAL
Arrange alphabetically, e.g. SORT
Asia's largest desert GOBI
Back talk SASS
Bad habit VICE
Bad impression? DENT
Barrymore's ''--- After'' EVER
Battery fluid ACID
Before, before ERST
Beyond normal limits UNDUE
Bingolike casino game KENO
Blue tinged with green AQUA
Bold poker bet ALLIN
Box office warning SRO
Brake's neighbor GAS
Break for the driver RESTSTOP
British ''water closet'' LOO
Burdened LADEN
Buzzing with activity ASTIR
Called the butler, in a way RANG
Camper's shelter TENT
Cantaloupe cover RIND
Carson's Carnac, for one SEER
Cast pearls before --- SWINE
Castro of Cuba FIDEL
Caught some Z's SLEPT
Chat meaninglessly YAK
Chills and fever AGUE
Christmas card greeting NOEL
Church section APSE
Classic Pontiac GTO
Close-ups show it DETAIL
Colorful aquarium fish TETRA
Community org. since 1844 YMCA
Complain CARP
Cook's garment APRON
Cookie favorite OREO
Couch potato's workout result ACHE
Did a Cuban ballroom dance CONGAED
Discusses in detail HASHESOVER
Disembarrass RID
Do this to prove you're human ERR
Doctor's specialty TREATMENT
Downpours DELUGES
Duff Beer vendor MOE
Eagle constellation AQUILA
Eddie Cantor's sweetheart IDA
Embarrass ABASH
Eminent entry? PRE
End of an accord? ION
Enter the picture APPEAR
Erases a debt PAYS
European connection? ASIA
Evidence of a forest fire SCORCHEDEARTH
Explorer maker FORD
Extols LAUDS
Fate of Miller's salesman DEATH
Faux follower PAS
Feature ASPECT
Feeling no pain NUMB
Film with many extras EPIC
Flanders or Devine NED
Flat replacement SPARE
Flies off the handle RAGES
Forensic finding DNA
Forge a path TRAILBLAZE
Fred Flintstone's boss SLATE
Functions USES
Gangsters' guns GATS
Gas for the theater district NEON
Genesis brother ABEL
German city on the Ruhr ESSEN
Gin and tonic twist LIME
Golf course elevator TEE
Golfer Trevino LEE
Good host's offering WARMWELCOME
Gung-ho ZEALOUS
Hard-hitting response? OUCH
Hardly thrilling BLAH
Haul out to the garage TOW
Hazard around an aerosol can OPENFLAME
Henry VIII family name TUDOR
Hindu princess (Var.) RANEE
Hunter's set-up SNARE
Hybrid citrus fruit UGLI
Ignore in pronunciation ELIDE
In a confused manner DAZEDLY
Interlace WEAVE
Iowa river with a rapids CEDAR
It has a Lincoln portrait CENT
It may be after ginger ALE
It might make you a nit-picker LOUSE
It's a bit of cheer? RAH
It's not out of the ordinary NORM
It's right off Main Street, really PAVEMENT
Italian sonnet ending SESTET
Clues Answers
Japanese rice drink SAKE
Judicious SAGE
Kept secret HID
Kind of engraving LINECUT
Lambaste verbally RIP
Lapidary item GEM
Leaves in the cup TEA
Leaves out OMITS
Lent assistance to AIDED
Like Jim Carrey comedies ZANY
Like royal descent, usually LINEAL
Lilly or Whitney ELI
Linking verbs COPULAS
London hero EDEN
Low, marshy land SWALE
Major airline DELTA
Makes a scene? ACTS
Makes lacework by knotting or looping TATS
Mandolin relatives LUTES
Memorable mission ALAMO
Metal-cutting machine SHAPER
Mete out ALLOT
Method conclusion? OLOGY
Mex. mama SRA
Microscopic bit ATOM
Montez or Falana LOLA
Most diluted WATERIEST
Muse often depicted with a lyre ERATO
Nautilus captain NEMO
Nelson Mandela, e.g. AFRICAN
Nigh NEARBY
No longer mad SANE
Obliterated by fire BURNEDTOACINDER
Offered, as a farewell BADE
Old hat DATED
Old salts TARS
One of a personal trio EGO
Opera solo ARIA
Or --- (bully's words) ELSE
Painful sensation in the chest HEARTBURN
Pay mind to HEED
Pelvis-related ILIAC
Perform an arithmetic operation ADD
Phooey! RATS
Picture on a ceiling MURAL
Pirates' pelf LOOT
Ponte Vecchio river ARNO
Port ---, Egypt SAID
Practice sessions REHEARSALS
Prepare to wash, perhaps SORT
Prison unit CELL
Profound DEEP
Protruding tree knots GNARLS
Put in a mailbox SENT
Rabble-rouser's trademark FIERYSPEECH
Remorseful soul RUER
Request from the dentist WIDER
Resting on ATOP
Retire for the night TURNIN
Rhythmic ballroom dance TANGO
Rub the wrong way MIFF
Rum-laced cakes BABAS
Sand unit GRAIN
Scholastic environment ACADEME
School founded in 1701 YALE
Scrutinize (with ''over'') PORE
Shape of a planet's orbit ELLIPSE
Shawls worn mainly by Mexican men SARAPES
Small wooded hollow DELL
Some cavalry soldiers LANCERS
Some Trekkie costumes ETS
Sort of nest egg IRA
Sound quality TONE
Speaker go-with AMP
Stern with a bow ISAAC
Strong desires YENS
Stubble remover RAZOR
Superior AONE
Supplier in many cartoons ACME
Surfer's concern TIDE
Swirling current EDDY
Take --- the waist (tailor's job) INAT
Take off in a hurry HIE
Take the bait BITE
Testing, as one's patience TRYING
The Fed's Greenspan ALAN
The sun, to Jerry Lee Lewis? BALLOFFIRE
Tickled pink GLAD
Tobacco wads CHAWS
Tow truck attachments, sometimes WRECKS
Trappist, e.g. MONK
Trucker's wheels SEMI
Underground supporter ROOT
Upper --- (now Burkina Faso) VOLTA
Vigorously went after a confession GRILLEDASUSPECT
Volcanic park in California LASSEN
Walked on TROD
Went from blond to brunette, in a way DYED
Wet thoroughly SOAK
What a mishandled debate can lead to HEATEDARGUMENT
Winter coasters SLEDS
Women's clothing size PETITE
Word with vote or go GETTER
Worshipped carving IDOL
Wrestling legend Kowalski KILLER
Writing pad TABLET
Yard of ___ (pub glass) ALE
Year-end tune NOEL
Yes men, repeaters and alpine mountains ECHOERS
Zealot's motivation BURNINGPASSION
Zola or Griffith EMILE
___ Central (French plateau) MASSIF
___ firma TERRA
___ Jean (Marilyn, originally) NORMA
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