USA Today - Apr 15 2005

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Clues Answers
''. . . hear ___ drop'' APIN
''A votre ___!'' SANTE
''Nothing doing!'' NODEAL
Actress Scala GIA
Ante matter? BET
Arizona tribesman HOPI
Auburn cheerleader's request? ANA
Auctioneer's question, perhaps DOIHEARTWENTY
August in Paris ETE
Bottle or fullback feature? WIDENECK
Brightest star in Scorpius ANTARES
Captain Kirk's communications officer UHURA
Circular current EDDY
Classic suit fabric TWEED
Classic TV's ''Green ___'' ACRES
Controversial 1933 govt. agency TVA
Counting intervals, e.g. TENS
Creme-creme center DELA
Declines drugs? SAYSNO
Delay development RETARD
Demagogue's outburst TIRADE
Eaglet's nest AERIE
Entertain lavishly REGALE
Every family has one TREE
Family circle HEARTHANDHOME
Figure of speech? ORATOR
First, second or third on the field BASEMAN
Fleeced SHORN
Fly over the equator? TSETSE
Fraction of a krone ORE
Gilbert Stuart specialty PORTRAIT
Hustle and bustle ADO
It comes in balls YARN
It may be hung PHOTO
It's just below the waves REEF
It's played before play begins ANTHEM
Jefferson Davis follower Johnny REB
Clues Answers
Juan's second wife EVITA
Kind of injection LETHAL
Land alternative AIR
Larger than life EPIC
Like a 386 computer OBSOLETE
Like lions and horses MANED
Like many Rod Serling stories EERIE
Like slander ORAL
Like some comic book heroes SUPER
Like some humor EARTHY
Location of some banks OFFSHORE
Make imperfect MAR
Most sophisticated STATEOFTHEART
Mountaintop fortress in Israel MASADA
Musteline mammal ERMINE
Musteline mammal MINK
Ned's son on ''The Simpsons'' ROD
Niger-to-Egypt dir. ENE
Optimists have it HOPE
Overrunning flies, e.g. ERRORS
Piece for one voice ARIA
Plea asea SOS
Prepare Mexican beans, perhaps REFRY
Pub crawlers SOTS
Ransacks the refrigerator RAIDS
Rat chaser? ATAT
Remained unused SAT
Scarlett's Butler RHETT
Shape with an axe HEW
Tantalized LURED
Thunderclap BOOMER
Time going backward? EMIT
Usher's objective SEAT
Wet impact sound SPLAT
Where the last flight ends? ATTIC
Worker with pointy shoes ELF
___ noire (bugbear) BETE