Universal - Aug 11 2003

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Clues Answers
"... ___ of thieves" (Matthew 21:13) ADEN
"A Prayer for ___ Meany" OWEN
"Ask me no questions and I'll ___ ..." TELL
"Deephaven" author Sarah ___ Jewett ORNE
"Famous" cookie maker AMOS
"I'll pass, thanks" NOTME
"Peg Woffington" author Charles READE
"Please Don't ___ the Daisies" EAT
"That was a close one!" PHEW
"The final frontier" SPACE
"When all ___ fails, read the directions" ELSE
"___, buckle my shoe . . ." ONETWO
''All ___ Is a Miracle'' (Mike + the Mechanics) INEED
''Hansel and Gretel'' setting COTTAGE
''The Miraculous Mandarin'' composer BARTOK
''Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-___'' RAL
''Whoo-hoo!'' YAY
1989-90 Indian PM SINGH
A barber has to work around it EAR
A type of clover OWLS
Aaron Spelling show ''The ___ Squad'' MOD
Absolute ruler TSAR
Acknowledge with a head gesture NODTO
Alias indicator AKA
Alphabet run MNOP
Already retired ABED
Anesthetic of yore ETHER
Animal trail SPOOR
Apartment owned by a resident CONDO
Applied frosting ICED
Art gallery SALON
Attire for a trip around the world? GSUIT
Autobahn cruiser AUDI
Awaken COMETO
Awful dancers OAFS
Back GOTOBATFOR
Back side of a switch? EROO
Balm in a bottle ALOE
Bandleader Edmundo ROS
Basic verb, to Ovid ESSE
Beat around the bush PUSSYFOOT
Become more declivitous STEEPEN
Being number one? ADAM
Birdlike AVIAN
Blade wetter DEW
Blue ___ (cops' sickout) FLU
Boot reinforcements TOECAPS
Bouquet receivers? VASES
Buffet staple SALADBAR
Cable Bill MAHER
Calculating course MATH
Catch a glimpse of ESPY
Certain golf club IRON
Certain one, to Louis I UNE
Certain sch. ELEM
Chief of the fallen angels SATAN
Chilean bread PESOS
Chocoholic's weakness SWEETTOOTH
Clunker LEMON
Coins of Great Britain PENCE
Color of Crane's badge RED
Comeback RIPOSTE
Completely lucid CLEARMINDED
Confined to a pen STIED
Confirmation or Holy Communion, e.g. RITE
Cotton-mouthed DRYTHROATED
Cowardly carnivore HYENA
Dangerous mosquito AEDES
Detroit body style COUPE
Dissuade DETER
Docket item CASE
Edible South American tuber OCA
Electrons' places ATOMS
Eve of '50s TV ARDEN
Eye TAKEINTHESIGHTS
FACE MAKEASTAND
Feedbag morsel OAT
Feel off AIL
Fighter in a ring MATADOR
Filmmaker Lee ANG
Fit of bad temper SNIT
Fling the horsehide HURL
Follower of Attila HUN
Forenoon MORN
From where some worship AFAR
Funny Foxx REDD
Gets in one's hair ANGERS
Globular yellow fruit GUAVA
Glove material, sometimes DOESKIN
Got married again REWED
Grass digs HUT
Greek god of love EROS
Green Card org. INS
Greet the villain HISS
Grounded commercial fleet SSTS
Had aspirations DREAMT
Half a laugh HEE
Hard or soft add-on WARE
Head RUNTHESHOW
Hobbes' partner CALVIN
Hops kiln OAST
Hungarian language group UGRIC
Icy coating RIME
In the center of AMID
In ___ (sequential) AROW
Incessant talker MOTORMOUTH
Inclusive abbr. ETAL
Intact ENTIRE
It may be inflated EGO
It's a gas RADON
It's usually bid ADIEU
Judge Paula ABDUL
Kills, in gangster lingo OFFS
Kind and caring WARMHEARTED
Kind of metal BASE
King preceder ALA
Kyrgyzstan mountain range ALAI
Clues Answers
Lake near Reno TAHOE
Large amounts TONS
Largest moon of Saturn TITAN
Leaves home? TREE
Lightly pigmented FAIRSKINNED
Like a pothook SSHAPED
List of book boo-boos ERRATA
Lord's Prayer opener OUR
Make much of TOUT
Mammoth growth TUSK
Meal with a chafing dish FONDUE
Medicinal brew SPICETEA
Mesdames Tussaud and Antoinette MARIES
Monarch's rule REIGN
Mongolian warrior TATAR
Mr. Arafat YASIR
Mud dauber, for one WASP
Mudbath sites SPAS
Nancy's buddy SLUGGO
National Enquirer rival STAR
Neither companion NOR
Not exactly a world-beater OKAY
Not fancy at all DETEST
NYC cultural institution MOMA
Oddsmaker's last words? TOONE
Old Testament song PSALM
Old VHS rival BETA
Oldest of the Fab Four RINGO
One conquered by Pizarro INCA
One way to tighten one's belt SLIMDOWN
One with a short fuse HOTHEAD
OR command STAT
Order of the court WRIT
Outer limits ENDS
Papas of "Zorba the Greek" IRENE
Part of a portfolio IRA
Parts of some joints TENONS
Passed out on the poker table? DEALT
Paved the way for LEDUPTO
Paycheck stub letters YTD
Peerless? ALONE
Permitted by law LICIT
Pharaoh's serpents ASPS
Pierre's ''here'' ICI
Police accompaniment ESCORT
Political journalist Joseph ALSOP
Popular go-between AND
Post-op regimen REHAB
Prefix before "dynamic" AERO
Prefix meaning "culture" ETHNO
Prepares to shoot AIMS
Preposition with an apostrophe OER
Ready to serve DONE
Rebel cries YELLS
Reds, Blues or Browns TEAM
Regard highly ESTEEM
Reproductive cells OVA
Rose oil variation OTTAR
Run ___ (go wild) AMOK
Semi-colon? DOT
Semitic deity TIAMAT
Sense of humor FUNNYBONE
Sentimental drivel GOO
Shirt size, briefly LGE
Short skirt MINI
Singer Rudy VALLEE
Sink in the middle SAG
Slow-moving boat TUB
Slum scurrier RAT
Snip what's superfluous PRUNE
Solar system spheroid PLANET
Some retrievers, familiarly LABS
Something to chew on ORT
Start for everything? OMNI
Stomach TOUGHITOUT
Stop, in France ARRET
Stroke gently PET
Suburban chauffeurs MOMS
Suit well BEFIT
Sure-footed animal ASS
Take the bait BITE
Terrier breed SKYE
The Sunshine St. FLA
They can sleep in midair YOYOS
They make wide turns BUSES
They wrap their food BOAS
They're good for a quick buck ATMS
Thirties gin mixers? BATHTUBS
Tibetan title LAMA
Time of note ERA
Tolerates ACCEPTS
Tolkien tree being ENT
Twosomes DUETS
Type of attitude CANDO
Type of check RAIN
Type of macaroni ELBOW
Unrinsed, maybe SOAPY
Unruly child BRAT
Up's partner ABOUT
Vanity case for milady ETUI
Vault opening ARCHWAY
Video's counterpart AUDIO
Walks lamely LIMPS
Wane ABATE
Waterworks TEARS
What's put before the carte? ALA
White Rabbit chaser ALICE
White-hat wearers SAILORS
William and Harry, e.g. PRINCES
Wire thickness GAUGE
Woolen fabric TWEED
Wrench's target NUT
You can see through it IRIS
Zesty potful STEW
___ Paese cheese BEL
___ Wences (ventriloquist) SENOR
___-dieu (kneeling bench) PRIE