Universal - Dec 18 2001

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Clues Answers
''A Day Without Rain'' artist ENYA
''Buzz off!'' SHOO
''Giant'' writer Ferber EDNA
''Jumbo shrimp,'' e.g. OXYMORON
''Pygmalion'' playwright SHAW
''Racy'' neckwear? ASCOT
''Wheel of Fortune'' category THING
--- Beta Kappa PHI
A quick run DASH
About 4 p.m. in Britain TEATIME
Acorn dropper OAK
Address an audience ORATE
Audition for a part READ
Barely makes (with ''out'') EKES
Be indisposed AIL
Before, old-style ERE
Bulletin board item, perhaps PUSHPIN
Carrie portrayer SISSY
Celebrate, in a way HAVEAPARTY
Celebrate, in a way GOONASPREE
Celebrate, in a way LETOFFSTEAM
Celebrate, in a way MAKEWHOOPEE
City of Light PARIS
Commonwealth of Nations member CANADA
Confirmation, e.g. RITE
Creative genre ARTFORM
Creditor's claims LIENS
Debate side PRO
Dough or cabbage MOOLAH
Easy as pie SIMPLE
Emit a stench REEK
Encouragement for a matador OLE
Express doubt SCOFF
Far East (with ''the'') ORIENT
Feds of a sort TMEN
Feedbag morsel OAT
Fill the hold LADE
First name among Hall of Fame catchers YOGI
Flock of birds COVEY
Clues Answers
Fraudulent event HOAX
From square one ANEW
Get under way START
Hinder STYMIE
Impertinent stare OGLE
Isosceles, for one TRIANGLE
List sometimes in chalk MENU
Magnate TYCOON
Meat inspection inits. USDA
Minerals in stores? ORES
Mirrors' partner SMOKE
Misappropriated STOLE
Mythical hammer-wielder THOR
Nettlesome PESKY
Nursery diversions TOYS
Oiler successor TITAN
Place where one asks to be hit RENO
Plato's ''H'' ETA
Quid pro quo equivalent SWAP
Rounds and clips AMMO
Saintly glow AURA
Shelley's ''Adonais,'' for one ELEGY
Spiritual fathers PRIESTS
Spun a yarn LIED
Stereo speaker ratings OHMS
They may be locked or blown HORNS
Time and again, to Whitman OFT
Umpteen MANY
Unholy figurine IDOL
Unspecified people ONES
Used cars RODE
Where Gooden and Strawberry once performed SHEA
Whitman work POEM
Whittle away ERODE
Wizards' target HOOP
Word before ''#1'' WERE
Word before and after ''to'' ASHES
Word with ghost or boom TOWN
Young equine COLT