USA Today - Apr 6 2005

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Clues Answers
''Dido and Aeneas,'' for one OPERA
''Howdy!'' HIYA
''What's ___ pleasure?'' YOUR
''___ the grass in the fields ...'' (Whitman) AMID
About midmonth IDES
Accustom INURE
Ambassadorial fashion accessory SASH
Aphrodite's son EROS
Arab chieftain (Var.) EMEER
Argo pilot JASON
Armored division member TANK
Arsenal stash AMMO
Author Morrison TONI
Baltic republic ESTONIA
Battery terminal ANODE
Bow out of the card game CASHINONESCHIPS
Braces FIRMSUP
Breath mint buys TINS
Canton in Switzerland URI
Casey was here ATBAT
Cast mightily HEAVE
Certain piano piece RAG
Change shape, in sci-fi MORPH
Citrus hybrid UGLI
City in Yemen ADEN
Clock parts HANDS
Coffeehouses CAFES
Cola mixers RUMS
Cold forecast TEENS
Cold war force NATO
Colonel's insignia EAGLE
Come to the rescue ASSIST
Condescending type SNOOT
Court divider NET
Dad's little man SON
Do a slow burn SEETHE
Drum cover? EARMUFF
Elbow counterpart KNEE
Endorphins producer PAIN
Exit on a high note LEAVEEMLAUGHING
Express openly AIR
Fell to pieces CAMEAPART
Field drops DEW
Fly in the ointment SNAFU
Follow a pattern? SEW
Foot-shaped form LAST
Fry quickly SAUTE
Fuss ADO
Gambling game LOTTO
Generous donation ORGAN
Give up the fight THROWINTHETOWEL
Gore's girl MYRA
Greek letter ETA
Green Gables girl ANNE
Grippe FLU
Guiding light BEACON
Hearty pub order ALE
Helping hand for Morticia THING
High spirits GLEE
Highest points ACMES
Highlands musicians PIPERS
Hoodwink SCAM
House with layers? COOP
Hubbub FLAP
Imitate MIMIC
Invite letters RSVP
It bends in a plea or plie KNEE
It works on a board IRON
It's tender to the Japanese YEN
Junk E-mail SPAM
Kennedy's was 109 PTBOAT
Lapidary's wares STONES
Last word in Bibles AMEN
Lazy Susan, e.g. TRAY
Learning method ROTE
Life-changing declaration IDO
Loafers, for example SHOES
Manage to deal (with) COPE
Clues Answers
Minor quarrel SPAT
Mocked, in a way APED
Mommy deer? DOE
Mother of mercy TERESA
Mythical strongman ATLAS
Needing parts INDISREPAIR
Nightingale or Barton, e.g. NURSE
Not available for use OUTOFCOMMISSION
Not just any THE
Not running INOPERATIVE
Nothing more than MERE
Of superior grade PRIME
One of the seven SEA
One way to formalize an agreement SHAKE
Penetrate PIERCE
Pest for a rose APHID
Phone call cost, in Bogart films DIME
Place for a finger? DIKE
Poker ploy BLUFF
Pound prospect STRAY
Presided at tea POURED
Proctor's announcement TIME
Protection for King Arthur ARMOR
Quit working BROKEDOWN
Realm AREA
Refrigerator drawer CRISPER
Relative you don't have at birth INLAW
Resound ECHO
Rustic dance JIG
Scarf's resting place NAPE
Show up COME
Sinatra's Gardner AVA
Some legal actions APPEALS
Some potholders MITTS
Soup dippers LADLES
Sprayed, as a sidewalk HOSED
Stand for MEAN
Steal or lie, e.g. SIN
Steer clear of AVOID
Stood up AROSE
Subject of many a grainy picture UFO
Subsurface hazard REEF
Survey POLL
Swiss capital (Var.) BERNE
Swivel PIVOT
Tags LABELS
Take wing SOAR
Tale of the Trojan War ILIAD
Tattooist's supply DYES
The Isle of Man's Port ___ ERIN
The vain put them on AIRS
They'll question you TESTS
Tibetan monk LAMA
Tilling tool HOE
Trance-ending sound SNAP
Trumped-up FALSE
Turning chisel accompanier LATHE
Under the weather SICK
Ungentlemanly sorts CADS
Use a divining rod DOWSE
Uses an acetylene torch WELDS
Velvety growth MOSS
Verdi heroine AIDA
Vocalized ORAL
Voguish CHIC
Warning devices SIRENS
Well-bred Londoners GENTS
What a gambler may be in HOCK
Woofer output BASS
Word preceding or following ''lay'' OVER
Work with reverence ODE
Worsens, as relations SOURS
Wynonna's mom NAOMI
Yo-yo string feature LOOP
Young seals PUPS
___ firma TERRA
___ up (come clean) FESS
___-craftsy ARTSY