Universal - Nov 17 2002

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Clues Answers
''--- a Little Tenderness'' TRY
''South Pacific'' star Pinza EZIO
--- Lanka SRI
--- mater ALMA
Abbreviation for Jesse Jackson REV
As well ALSO
Asian city on the Red River HANOI
Big bucks? DEER
Bon --- AMI
Brake part DISC
Bravery VALOR
British import TEA
Bryn --- MAWR
Business letter addressee SIR
Carolers' selections NOELS
City with a bell tower PISA
Classifieds ADS
Clocks for AAA trucks? TOWTIMERS
Compare LIKEN
Conceited trip EGO
Dance for enlistees? THEGIBALL
Faint DIM
Feast DINE
Feature of many hotels ATRIUM
Flower fertilizer BEE
Get a big surprise on the oil rig? STRIKEETHER
Grassy plains of Argentina PAMPAS
Greek god of war ARES
Hall of Famer Durocher LEO
Have fixations OBSESS
Have-not's condition NEED
Hide away STASH
High schooler's designation YEAR
Highly religious Jew HASID
Insertion into a deck TAPE
Is reclusive HOLESUP
Its first is for fools APRIL
Its place is in a setting GEM
Lad or Lassie, e.g. CANINE
Clues Answers
Leave high and dry DESERT
Like some numerals ARABIC
Likewise TOO
Little ''Locomotion'' singer EVA
Long period of high-flying military might? AIRFORCEEON
Mark of combat SCAR
Mean partner LEAN
Meander ROVE
More enthusiastic KEENER
Mother who won the Nobel Peace Prize TERESA
Mr. America hallmark TORSO
One of a pack? LIE
Onset ADVENT
Permissive LENIENT
Perplexing path MAZE
Poll answerer (Abbr.) RESP
Prepare for planting HOE
Proclivity BIAS
Pyrite, for one SULFIDE
Rundown RECAP
Russian castoff ALASKA
Sequestered ISOLATED
Show plainly EVINCE
Singers like Marian Anderson ALTOS
Site of the Arab League headquarters CAIRO
Slithery critters EELS
Snail mail enc. SASE
Speck in the sea ISLET
Spot for a swell sleep? WATERBED
Standard NORM
Stick around LINGER
Sticky-tongued nest raider ANTEATER
Still in research and development UNTESTED
Thin cookie WAFER
TKO declarer REF
Waters of jazz ETHEL
Weather that won't stop the mailman SLEET
Word with indigestion or test ACID
You may break it with guests ICE