Newsday.com - Mar 18 2012

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''Gladiator'' Oscar winner CROWE
''I reckon so'' YEP
''My turn!'' IMUP
''So that's it!'' AHA
''The Highwayman'' poet NOYES
''Up and __!'' ATEM
12-year-old TWEEN
A-team FIRSTSTRING
Abbr. before a home phone RES
About 30% of all land ASIA
Accelerate, with ''up'' STEP
Aeroplane wheel TYRE
AL East team BOS
Alternative introducer ELSE
Ancient OLD
Aroma ODOR
Author McEwan IAN
Barber's obstacles EARS
Beehive's localeÀ° APIARY
Black-and-white snacks OREOS
Blacksmiths' shops FORGES
Bowl over STUN
Box-office buys TIX
Brewpub serving ALE
Bridge site NOSE
Cake toppers ICINGS
Camera type, familiarly SLR
Campfire recitation GHOSTSTORY
Cast off SHED
Choice OPTION
Cider source APPLE
Complaints, so to speak BEEFS
Computer storage units BYTES
Cotton pod BOLL
Cub Scout leader AKELA
Desert phenomenon DUSTSTORM
Dickensian clerk HEEP
Dictatorial BOSSY
Dijon dads PERES
Dilemma choices HORNS
Distrustful LEERY
Electronic delivery MAIL
Evinces SHOWS
Exemplar of virtue SAINT
Feathery predators OWLS
Fingerprint pattern WHORL
Footnote abbr OPCIT
Forwarded SENTON
Foundations BASES
French river to the English Channel SOMME
Glacier by-product BERG
H. __ Perot ROSS
Half of a sawbuck FIN
Hearty dinner STEW
Hill dwellers ANTS
Horatian creations ODES
Housekeeper's challenge MESS
How some stand by IDLY
In the lead AHEAD
Inventor Whitney ELI
Invigorating drink TONIC
Israeli native SABRA
Ivy Leaguer YALIE
Lacking tact CRUDE
Largest of the dolphins ORCA
Lean eater of rhyme SPRAT
Legendary screen dancer ASTAIRE
Lenient SOFT
List line ITEM
Lofty TALL
Long-odds effort LASTSTAND
Lowly laborer PEON
Manufacturing expenses COSTSTRUCTURE
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Mardi Gras day: Abbr TUE
Maryland state bird ORIOLE
Massachusetts senator Brown SCOTT
MD in 1955 headlines SALK
Menachem's co-Nobelist ANWAR
Mercury, e.g PLANET
Most twisted WRIEST
Muffin variety BRAN
Navigational gizmo GPS
NFL scores TDS
Not saying much TERSE
Nursery purchase PLANT
One sitting for a 114 Across TESTEE
Operatic solo ARIA
Pac-12 team UCLA
Palette choices HUES
Party munchies CANDY
Performs DOES
Place for some rings PINKY
Pool-table material SLATE
Potpourri quality SCENT
Pre-moving events TAGSALES
Prime-time credit GUESTSTAR
Put a spin on SLANT
Radar-gun reading SPEED
Raggedy doll ANDY
Reacts to yeast RISES
Refuses to yield INSISTS
River through Iraq TIGRIS
Rock used to make marbles AGATE
Rushed headlong TORE
Saw in GREETED
Scrutinized, with ''over'' PORED
Select few ELITE
Smartphone accessory WRISTSTRAP
Sneaky one WEASEL
Software test version BETA
Some slacks SLIMS
Sounds from 93 Down HOOTS
Staircase adjunct BANISTER
Starting point, slangily GITGO
State that was once a nation TEXAS
Stk.-exchange listings COS
Stove-top vessel SKILLET
Stretch of time SPAN
Stretch of time STINT
Strike out DELE
Subtle glows AURAS
Swamp stalk REED
Sweet starter SEMI
Take a load off REST
Talk-show component SEGMENT
Thing on a docket CASE
Toledo's lake ERIE
Tool material CASTSTEEL
Treasury Dept. agency IRS
True-to-life REAL
Tummy relief ANTACID
Two-team wrestling meets DUALS
Undergrad degs BAS
Unit of force DYNE
Usual semester ender EXAM
Virtual appointment EDATE
Way out there AFAR
Western resort lake TAHOE
What's in LATESTSTYLE
Windsor's prov ONT
Wingtips, for instance SHOES
Word on many kitchen-cleaner labels OXY
Works in retail SELLS
Zilch NONE
__ Baba ALI
__ del Fuego TIERRA