Newsday.com - Jan 31 2012

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Clues Answers
''For __ sake!'' PETES
''Guided'' vacation TOUR
''I understand'' GOTIT
''My treat!'' ONME
''That is to say . . .'' IMEAN
Acknowledge applause TAKEABOW
Annoying ones PESTS
Ballet costume TUTU
Barn-top device VANE
Basic part of speech NOUN
Beef cuts RUMPROASTS
Berets and bonnets HATS
British ''Bye-bye!'' TATA
Calendar square DAY
Chair part LEG
Checkers or chess GAME
Chicago airport OHARE
Coasters on snow SLEDS
Contract signing need PEN
Creative thoughts IDEAS
Critic's endorsement RAVEREVIEW
Dad's boys SONS
Dazzle AWE
Dry as a desert ARID
Edgar Allan __ POE
Elevator entryway DOOR
Fast-moving motorsport ROADRACING
Fixes, as a fight RIGS
Forgets to mention OMITS
Full amount TOTAL
Garden nuisance WEED
Gives a thumbs-up to OKS
Hazard RISK
Hot-dog holder BUN
How fries are fried INOIL
Ill will RANCOR
Installed, as carpet LAID
Kitchen basin SINK
Ladder crosspiece RUNG
Clues Answers
Lavish celebration FETE
Loosen, as laces UNTIE
Major happening EVENT
Male hog BOAR
Methods WAYS
Mexican chip NACHO
Military no-show: Abbr AWOL
Molecule part ATOM
Monogram part: Abbr INIT
More intelligent SMARTER
Much-admired person IDOL
Neighborhood AREA
North Pole resident SANTA
Not even one NONE
Ogle LEERAT
Old-floor sounds CREAKS
One of the Great Lakes ERIE
One of the Three Bears MAMA
Opera solo ARIA
Pizza topping ONION
Poison-ivy reaction RASH
Prefix for freeze ANTI
Prepares to start a golf round TEESUP
Princess' dad KING
Puts frosting on ICES
Remote-control button MUTE
Road Runner sound BEEPBEEP
Stick __ in the water ATOE
Suffix for major ETTE
Supplied party food for CATERED
Surprise greatly STUN
Target-practice place RIFLERANGE
The thing over there THAT
Theater offerings PLAYS
Tire filler AIR
Togetherness UNITY
Touch on the shoulder TAP
Wild guess STAB
Words of dismay OHNO