Newsday.com - Sep 17 2011

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Clues Answers
''The Opposite of Fate'' author AMYTAN
''Twilight'' series character ESME
''__ essential'' (key line in ''Schindler's List'') THEYRE
1980 Best Picture nominee TESS
Adoption advocates SPCA
Appropriately moist, in a way BASTED
Bumper-sticker verb ELECT
Cast liability, perhaps EMOTER
Center of Venice RIALTO
Church gathering SYNOD
Clown around for 40+ years RONALD
Cry of support AMEN
Demographic group LATINOS
Dispatched SENTIN
Distressing TERRIBLE
Divine PREDICT
DVD category ANIME
Elvis #1 tune of '58 DONT
Elvis, in early 1960 NCO
Employ INVOLVE
Encouraging words ITLLBEFUN
Fictional dreamer ALICE
Fun-run span ONEK
Girl in Byron's ''Don Juan'' LEILA
Guarded CAREFUL
Heracles' love, per Ovid IOLE
Hiding place for Tom Thumb SNAILSHELL
Hot stuff TAMALE
Infomercial ''after'' photo ABS
Infomercial ''before'' photo POTBELLY
Irritants PESTS
It's steep at Stanford TUITION
Its emblem has wings enfolding the globe NORAD
Jane Austen Centre site SOMERSET
Clues Answers
Jukebox prompt SELECT
Make potable, perhaps DESALT
Makeup RETEST
Marble, for instance SPHERE
Military band ARMLET
Natural indentation COVE
Official pet of President Taft HOLSTEIN
One in a stable environment HOSTLER
Opinion introducer IFEEL
Overly ingratiating language SMARM
Path starter OSTEO
Places to get tickets TOLLWAYS
Propeller position AFT
Pugnacity ATTITUDE
Replacement for some omissions ETAL
Scandinavian shoe brand ECCO
See 21 Down IRAN
Sioux Falls-to-Cedar Rapids dir ESE
Spots for figureheads CUSHYJOBS
Street sign abbr CIR
Surrealism pioneer ERNST
The ''S'' in LASIK SITU
They run on powder SKIAREAS
This or that ANY
Thorn-apple alias JIMSONWEED
Turbine's pivot STATOR
Vichyssoise ingredient LEEK
When ''Ave Maria'' is heard in ''Otello'' ACTIV
Where an order may be placed MONASTERY
Where the Rosetta Stone was found NILEDELTA
With 15 Across, where the Peacock Throne can be seen TEHRAN
Word in a five-star hotel review POSHLY
Yearbook-signing cliché STAYCOOL
__ Moe Dee (rap artist) KOOL