USA Today - Jul 7 2003

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Clues Answers
"Mass in B minor" composer BACH
"The ___ protests too much, methinks" LADY
"Who ___ to argue?" AMI
''That's life!'' e.g. ADAGE
''The Little Red Book'' byline MAO
''Whoopie!'' HOORAH
3.9, e.g. GPA
A natural resource COALDEPOSIT
Abrasive board EMERY
Acid + alcohol yield ESTER
Architect's plans, briefly SPECS
Back-up fuel supplies OILRESERVES
Baking pans TINS
Barrel maker COOPER
Birth-related NATAL
Bismarck's river MISSOURI
Black gold carrier PIPE
Blessed bread holder PATEN
Brewers' needs MALTS
Brightly colored fish OPAH
Burn soother ALOE
Carmine and ruby REDS
Chutzpah NERVE
Cicatrix SCAR
Corking NIFTY
Counterpart of substance STYLE
Crane's home, at times MARSH
Crook's booty LOOT
Cropped up AROSE
Dada co-founder ARP
Dam's partner SIRE
Destroy by degrees ERODE
Dixie Chicks, e.g. TRIO
Doctoral hurdle ORAL
Dostoyevsky's "The ___" IDIOT
Double-reed instrument OBOE
Down East state MAINE
Dumbstruck AGAPE
Elite Navy diver SEAL
Employee concern WAGE
End of a student e-mail address EDU
European erupter of 1992 ETNA
Excessively enthusiastic GAGA
Fab Four flick HELP
Failures WASHOUTS
Famed shroud site TURIN
FDR or JFK DEM
Final figure TOTAL
First on the scene? ADAM
Fit to be tied IRATE
Follow in order ENSUE
Frank Herbert sci-fi classic DUNE
Frost's kin DEW
Fundraising dinner unit PLATE
Get bent out of shape WARP
Golden Calf, e.g. IDOL
Great ball of fire STAR
Habituate INURE
Haile Selassie follower RASTA
Hair apparent? WIG
Has the guts DARES
Henry VIII's second wife ANNE
Herd exchange MOOS
Hoo-ha ADO
How you can say that AGAIN
Human-eater, in folklore OGRE
Intrinsically PERSE
It has many keys but no locks BABYGRAND
It might be framed ART
It's often after me TOO
Item on a carousel SUITCASE
Jacob's brother ESAU
Jungle swinger APE
Keg stopper TAP
KJV pronoun THY
Knowing about INON
Largest of the Orkney Islands POMONA
Layered mineral MICA
Clues Answers
Leaf opening STOMA
Like some judgments SNAP
Logical introduction? ONTO
Lost power, as an engine DIED
Lover of nature's beauty (Var.) ESTHETE
Magpies do it AMASS
Man of many words ROGET
Mell Lazarus comic strip MOMMA
Mikey liked it LIFE
Modern Maturity publisher AARP
Mrs. Dick Tracy TESS
Muse for Milton ERATO
Musical genre of India RAGA
Nasal openings NARES
Nicholas Gage book ELENI
Obsolescent wedding word OBEY
Ollie's cohort STAN
On the up-and-up LEGAL
One side of an issue CON
One way to create a solution? STIR
Opportune RIPE
Opposite of "yippee!" RATS
Opposite of "yippee!" DRAT
Pals down under MATES
Papa Hemingway ERNEST
Part of Manhattan BATTERYPARK
Partnership for Peace grp. NATO
Person completely finished with patches? NONSMOKER
Place for kine LEA
Place for some grease monkeys GASOLINESTATION
Planned schedule AGENDA
Point after deuce ADIN
Portable music player IPOD
Positive thinker's word CAN
Possible form for 42-Down TRIMETER
Procure GET
Rainbow, for one TROUT
Reactor factor ATOM
Required investment of a kind ANTE
Rib-tickler HOOT
Riser and tread STAIR
Road to Roma ITER
Rodeo rope RIATA
Role for Marlon VITO
Roomy dress ALINE
Root for Hawaiians TARO
Sacred chests ARKS
Salad topping OILANDVINEGAR
Sculpture medium ICE
Seed sheath ARIL
Self-importance EGO
Seneca's student NERO
Series starter MINI
Sierra ___ LEONE
Snug bug's locale RUG
Some track exercises WINDSPRINTS
Sound of casual playing on a musical instrument TOOTLE
Sounded like a rook CAWED
Spot in the sea ISLE
Sprite of Persian folklore PERI
Start of Massachusetts' motto ENSE
Submission encl. SASE
Swordsmen's battle DUEL
Thespian's milieu STAGE
Treehouse underpinning LIMB
Twisted toward one side ASKEW
Uncompromising STERN
Valentine's Day figure EROS
Vladimir Nabokov novel ADA
Wallets' strip GASOLINEALLEY
Way back when AGO
Were up to date? ARE
What fat ladies sing LYRIC
What M may represent MILLION
Write of passage? OBIT
Writer Rice ANNE
___ alia INTER
___ Hall University SETON