USA Today - Mar 2 2005

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Clues Answers
''Amistad'' extra SLAVE
''C'___ la vie!'' EST
''I ___ Rock'' (Simon and Garfunkel hit) AMA
''Jake's Thing'' writer Kingsley AMIS
''No'' to Rob Roy NAE
''Star Trek'' character MCCOY
''The Explorer'' of kid TV DORA
''Tutte le feste al tiempo,'' e.g. ARIA
1970 Best Picture PATTON
1984 Chuck Norris film MISSINGINACTION
Accepted as true BELIEVED
Accustom to hardship (Var.) ENURE
Affectionate name within the family SIS
Annotation abbr. IBID
Approximately ORSO
At pique's peak IRATE
Babel, for one TOWER
Baseball scores RUNS
Bermuda, for one ONION
Bond creator Fleming IAN
Brew in a teapot, e.g. STEEP
Cake partner ALE
Canal or Lake ERIE
Capital on the Aar BERNE
Card of virtue or vice TAROT
Caviar, literally ROE
Celestial body, e.g. ORB
City with a high divorce rate? RENO
Class with dissections, briefly ANAT
Clever sayings MOTS
Clint Eastwood series RAWHIDE
Commendation CITATION
Contraction with ''a prayer'' or ''a clue'' HASNT
Cookbook amt., often TSP
Cover with hoarfrost RIME
Criticize harshly RAILAT
Crossword puzzle component GRID
Decamped GONE
Dental deficiency GAP
Eastern nanny AMAH
Electrical pioneer Nikola TESLA
Electronics whiz TECHIE
Emulate a film editor SPLICE
Famous literary bear MAMA
Fellies RIMS
Fervent AVID
Field of study AREA
Finger attachment PRINT
First lady of the United States (1861-1865) MARYTODDLINCOLN
First lady of the United States (1953-1961) MAMIEEISENHOWER
First lady of the United States (1963-1969) LADYBIRDJOHNSON
First name in fashion COCO
Florida's cigar city TAMPA
For, how or what ending EVER
Former White House Chief of Staff Panetta LEON
Forty-___ (gold rush participant) NINER
Fuel carrier OILER
Give off EMIT
Goofs ERRS
Grease monkey's objective REPAIR
Gremlins and Pacers AMCS
Guitarist Clapton ERIC
Half-man, half-goat SATYR
Happy bivalve? CLAM
Heart condition marked by chest pain ANGINA
High fever at the Forum? CIII
Highly spiced stew OLLA
Hightailed it RAN
Hole-in-one ACE
In and of itself PERSE
In regard to ANENT
Indeterminate amount ANY
It can fall flat NOTE
It could be made from apples SAUCE
It may be read at a fair PALM
It's super when exploding NOVA
King's place (Abbr.) CNN
Clues Answers
Laughs loudly ROARS
Lenten symbol ASH
Light doze CATNAP
Like days of yore OLDEN
Lily plants SEGOS
Make public AIR
Make the first bid OPEN
Mandlikova of the courts HANA
March king SOUSA
Martin and Hart MARYS
Mecca trek (Var.) HADJ
Milk container, perhaps GALLONJUG
Mod garments MINIS
Mortgage, e.g. LIEN
Most restless ITCHIEST
Mystery writer Buchanan EDNA
Nearsighted one MYOPE
Nike competitor AVIA
Not carrying a heater CLEAN
Not carrying a piece CLEAN
Odorize by burning CENSE
Offensive expression LEER
Office assistant, once STENO
Old-time newsman CRIER
Org. involved with the Scopes trial ACLU
Part of a rodeo LASSOCONTEST
Passes over ELIDES
Penultimate mo. NOV
Phrase following dollar amounts, sometimes APOP
Pillow material SATIN
Pinnacles ACMES
Place for a half nelson MAT
Pocket bread PITA
Point-of-purchase equip. giant NCR
Pooch savers (Abbr.) SPCA
Prefix with gram or graph IDEO
Prom attendee TEEN
Proverbial preventive APPLE
Province of China (Var.) HONAN
Questionable orchard spray ALAR
Raisin rum cake BABA
Redolence SCENT
Refrigerator attachment, maybe MEMO
Relish ENJOY
Rep.'s counterpart SEN
Rich pastry ECLAIR
Rob of ''Northern Exposure'' MORROW
Sculpture material, sometimes ICE
Secluded corner NOOK
Sheet of stamps PANE
Sibilant summons PSST
Sister of 63-Across ERATO
Sketched DREW
Some are civil WARS
Some loaves RYES
Soothing beverage HERBALTEA
Stack PILE
Stereo components TUNERS
Storage container BIN
Strolls leisurely AMBLES
Suffix with 4 or 6, but not 5 TEEN
Taj ___ MAHAL
The muse of history CLIO
The third man ABEL
Theater award OBIE
They may run on gas OVENS
Three sheets to the wind LIT
Toast-topper, perhaps OLEO
Tug abruptly YANK
Unplugged? ACOUSTIC
Utter mayhem SHEERMADNESS
Verdugo of ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'' ELENA
Water flask CANTEEN
Wharton's Frome ETHAN
Wimps' opposites HEMEN
Word with ''kill'' or ''hog'' ROAD
WWII transports LSTS