USA Today - Dec 22 2003

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Clues Answers
"Peanuts" thumb sucker LINUS
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" creatures ASPS
"Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace" boy ANI
"War and Peace" author TOLSTOY
Bach's "___, Joy of Man's Desiring" JESU
Bart's sister on "The Simpsons" LISA
Baseball's Felipe ALOU
Break indicator XRAY
Breakfast treat, informally DONUT
Burn soother ALOE
Cajole PROD
Calmed SEDATED
Catches, as a thief NABS
Certain jar type MASON
Circuit board connector SOLDER
Classic cartoon props POWDERKEGS
Coffee shop words AULAIT
College booster, usually ALUM
Connect with TIETO
Converse TALK
Cook known for "Bam!" EMERIL
Cunning ASTUTE
Develops NURTURES
Dinsmore of fiction ELSIE
Diving position PIKE
Empire State Building, e.g. SKYSCRAPER
Everyone, in the South YALL
First job, for many BABYSITTER
Flew SPED
For him and her UNISEX
Frat party wear TOGA
Galileo's final resting spot JUPITER
German leader Helmut KOHL
Grade barely above average CPLUS
Grassland LEY
Half of a cassette SIDEB
Having a healthy color ROSY
Clues Answers
High-pitched bark YIP
Inflame IRK
Irish republic EIRE
It may elicit groans PUN
Kilt pattern TARTAN
Kind of personality ONSCREEN
Language suffix ESE
Leave out SKIP
Legendary Fitzgerald ELLA
Match play? ARSON
Medley OLIO
Mil. training program (Abbr.) ROTC
National boys' gp. BSA
Not available INUSE
Part makers COMBS
Parts of a Three Stooges routine SLAPS
Path to some doors STOOP
Playground retort ARESO
Pointed a finger at ACCUSED
Poker player's dream ROYALFLUSH
Refine, as ore SMELT
Singer Braxton TONI
Slammers PRISONS
Slippery creatures EELS
Southwestern flat tops MESAS
Speeding car on a sharp turn, e.g. CAREENER
Spots for studs EARLOBES
Stadium chant, sometimes USA
Sugar or Rose, e.g. BOWL
Summer and winter SEASONS
Top off FILL
Vineyard valley NAPA
Wakes ROUSES
Woeful DISMAL
Word in a Disney cartoon title TRAMP
WWII Allied invasion site STLO
Young'un TYKE