USA Today - Apr 18 2007

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Clues Answers
"All ___ being equal . . ." ELSE
"Bye-bye, love" TATA
"I Love Lucy" name ETHEL
"Our father" PATERNOSTER
"Physics" preceder META
''Our Father'' PATERNOSTER
A primary source for Scandinavian mythology EDDA
Abbr. in a book of quotations ANON
Acts on a preference OPTS
Adjacent to ABUT
After-shower sprinkle TALC
Ages badly RUSTS
Algerian metropolis ORAN
Amorphous amount GLOB
Anchor line's hole HAWSE
Arteries with shoulders ROADS
Attachment to "van" or "tort" ILLA
Baker's offering TORTE
Bank security devices CAMS
Bas-relief medium GESSO
Beginnings of some pranks DARES
Boat woods TEAKS
Boaters and such HATS
Breakfast item, sometimes CORNCAKE
Bridge supports PIERS
British weight STONE
Bucket of bolts CRATE
By no means long-winded TERSE
Cantina cooker OLLA
Capital south of the Caspian Sea TEHRAN
Caribbean, e.g. SEA
Cashier enclosures, sometimes CAGES
Catchall categories OTHERS
Chisel feature EDGE
Choler IRE
Chowed down ATE
Cinnamon-yielding tree CASSIA
Coin of India or Pakistan RUPEE
Come back RESPOND
Company quorum TWO
Concert souvenirs TEES
Cross-referencing word SEE
Current crazes RAGES
Demolition ball alternative TNT
Diminutive TEENY
Disparaging remark SLUR
Do a rhabdomancer's job DOWSE
Dodger Hall-of-Famer REESE
Each state, symbolically STAR
Eastern potentate EMIR
Electric measures OHMS
Emotional flower? TEAR
English church land GLEBE
Exist as a group ARE
Expert MAVEN
Extended family member MOTHERINLAW
Extended family member MOTHERINLAW
Extol the virtues of TOUT
Faithful's response AMEN
Fancy clothes GLADRAGS
Fern creators SPORES
Firewood measures STERES
First name in talk OPRAH
Fraternal one, perhaps TWINSISTER
Grimm meanie OGRE
Guiding principle CREDO
Hand-lotion ingredient ALOE
His match? HERS
Horse sound CLOP
Infuser, by another name TEAMAKER
Insomnia cause, in a fairy tale PEA
It gets under your collar TIE
It has a soffit EAVE
It precedes more and lasting EVER
Kind of duck? LAME
Lacewing's lunch APHID
Lawnmower handle TORO
Lentil dish (Var.) DHAL
Clues Answers
Leonine feature MANE
Like a French twist UPSWEPT
Many a delivery SON
Mark Twain and Saki, for two PENNAMES
Memorable Yugoslav leader TITO
Mentioned REMARKED
Mexican Mrs. SRA
Moisturizer ingredient ALOE
Moonshiner's mixture MASH
Mudder's father SIRE
Muscat's land OMAN
Natural weapons CLAWS
Negotiation results DEALS
Nip in the bud END
Nose nipper Jack FROST
Not born yesterday WISE
Not invited (Var.) UNBID
Not mad SANE
Not the gregarious type LONER
Nursery purchase PLANT
Of higher rank than OVER
Oil from flower petals ATTAR
One of two evils LESSER
One with a vision? SEER
One with crossed fingers, perhaps LIAR
Papers are tossed along it ROUTE
Party-poopers DRIPS
Poetic tributes ODES
Poison source ASP
Prevent from acting DETER
Propositional phrase? LINE
Provide bearings ORIENT
Pulitzer winner Ferber EDNA
Recommended reply to a sentry FRIEND
Sally Field title role SYBIL
Saturates WETS
Scholarship criterion NEED
Sesame Street resident ERNIE
Shaft entrance ADIT
She may be fraternal TWINSISTER
Shirley MacLaine role IRMA
Silence the tube MUTE
Sixth-day-of-Christmas gift GEESE
Smallest merganser SMEW
Some Indochinese LAOS
Something to bring up? REAR
Sportscaster Berman LEN
Stew or miscellany OLIO
Striplings TADS
Superman's emblem ESS
Symbol of industriousness ANT
Tai ___ CHI
Takes down the "Closed" sign REOPENS
Tallies ADDS
The Munster boy EDDIE
Third TERTIARY
Third-generation Genesis figure ENOS
Thumbs-up, and then some RAVE
Tiresome routines RUTS
Toward dawn EAST
Toward the protected side ALEE
Tree with needles PINE
TV adjustment CONTRAST
Two-dimensional measurement AREA
Use a calculator ADD
Volvo factory worker, perhaps SWEDE
Warning, in Spanish AVISO
Watch for the cops, maybe ABET
Watched the birdie POSED
Wild West shootout time NOON
Women of distinction HEROINES
Word with both "more" and "merrier" THE
Word with bug or googly EYED
Word with wine or shop STEWARD
Words with "time limit" or "record" SETA
Words with a familiar ring? IDO
Younger sibling KIDBROTHER
Younger sibling, perhaps KIDBROTHER