USA Today - Jan 3 2007

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Clues Answers
''Damn Yankees'' vixen LOLA
''Shepherd Moons'' Grammy winner ENYA
''Who goes there?'' asker SENTRY
''___ Mommy Kissing Santa Claus'' ISAW
A Chaplin SYD
African desert SAHARA
Ahab's word of agreement AYE
Always EVER
Annie Hall trademark phrase LADIDA
Attracted DREW
Au courant UPON
Bad place to be led ASTRAY
Bamboo unit SHOOT
Barnum's partner BAILEY
Basin craft, perhaps YACHT
Bat eyelashes, e.g. FLIRT
Be preoccupied with OBSESS
Beastly bellow ROAR
Being reluctant to act FOOTDRAGGING
Bluish-white element ZINC
Box lightly SPAR
Brando's hometown OMAHA
Chewed the scenery EMOTED
Chipper PERT
Clear roads, in a way PLOW
Cold War participant USSR
College jocks' org. NCAA
Come out on top WIN
Completed OVER
Completely hopeless one BASKETCASE
Congregational response AMEN
Coquette TEASE
Court PITCHALITTLEWOO
Cozy cover BLANKET
Cried like a raven CAWED
Cul-de-___ SAC
Curtis LeMay's command, briefly SAC
Darkness or gloom MURK
Dashing style ELAN
Declare AVER
Devious CRAFTY
Divulge BLAB
Do penance ATONE
Dominican baseball-playing family ALOU
Down partner OUT
Downhiller's destination, perhaps ASPEN
Drops from the sky RAIN
Dungeness or Hermit CRAB
Encircled TWINED
Enumeration abbreviation ETC
Evangelist McPherson AIMEE
Every number is divisible by it ONE
Exhibit stuff? ART
Familia member TIA
Famous street SESAME
Film spool REEL
Finish END
Finish the bathroom remodel, in a way TILE
Fishmonger Molly MALONE
For, how or what ending EVER
Foreign ALIEN
French wine-growing region ALSACE
Hardy star? ROONEY
Hawaiian farewell ALOHA
Hindu goddess DEVI
Images of the Eastern Church (Var.) IKONS
In fashion CHIC
Iraq port BASRA
It has its place in the Bible ACTS
It has three toes EMU
It may put you in the arms of Morpheus ANESTHETIC
It's hot stuff in Texas CHILI
Italia capital ROMA
Jai ___ ALAI
Jewish mourning period (Var.) SHIVA
Jon Arbuckle's pet ODIE
Keen competition between teams RIVALRY
Kind of card INDEX
Clues Answers
Kookie Byrnes EDD
Large Coral Sea inlet PAPUA
Leaping before looking RASH
Least popular kind of speech LONG
Light gas NEON
Lip-___ SYNC
Lucy's landlady ETHEL
Lucy's landlord FRED
Magazine publisher Conde NAST
Makes haste ZIPS
Many have a spare one in the middle TIRE
Mardi or foie follower GRAS
Maximum number, e.g. QUOTA
Memorable bridge-guarder TROLL
Moors HEATHS
Mull neighbor IONA
Mythical bird ROC
Neckline shape VEE
Negative votes NAYS
Nitpicks CARPS
Noted mild-mannered reporter KENT
One always hoping to score BASERUNNER
One living in a dump RAT
Pigeon shelter COTE
Pippin SEED
Place in Kentucky BOWLINGGREEN
Play, as a mandolin STRUM
Plus AND
Purfle ADORN
Right of final decision SAYSO
Ring to wear HALO
River leading to the Rhine AAR
Russian news agency TASS
Seat for the Duke SADDLE
Shake ___ (hurry) ALEG
Shopping aids TOTES
Short fishhook line SNELL
Silica SILEX
Snooze CATCHFORTYWINKS
Softly, in music PIANO
Some are lined with books DENS
Some tenements SLUMS
Start the music STRIKEUPTHEBAND
Start to collapse SAG
Stick together COHERE
Storyline PLOT
Stuff in the basement? STORE
Sugar cube or dog biscuit, perhaps REWARD
Suicidal emperor NERO
Swear AVOW
Tastelessly showy GAUDY
Tears asunder RENDS
Teasdale of poetry SARA
Tel ___ AVIV
The Caine's captain QUEEG
The embryo of an invention IDEA
The end of a Mississippi steamboat, e.g. STERNWHEEL
Told, as a tale SPUN
Took wrongly STOLE
Turk's-cap, for one LILY
TV monitor FCC
Type of party RAVE
Up to this point BYNOW
Utter indistinctly SLUR
Version in process BETA
Well fluid INK
What no man is ISLAND
What salmon do SPAWN
When doubled, it means ''quickly'' CHOP
Where Adam's apple came from EVE
White-plumed wading bird EGRET
Wide destruction HAVOC
Without SANS
Without urgency IDLY
Word in a Debussy title MER
___ Alto, Calif. PALO
___ Beta Kappa PHI
___-Wan Kenobi OBI