USA Today - Dec 20 2004

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Clues Answers
". . . and the desk clerk's dressed in black" HEARTBREAKHOTEL
"Born Free" heroine ELSA
"I never ___ man I didn't like" META
"Kiss me my darling, be mine tonight . . ." ITSNOWORNEVER
"Light" gas NEON
"Why can't you see what you're doing to me . . ." SUSPICIOUSMINDS
"Young Frankenstein" role IGOR
"Your love is worth all the gold on earth . . ." GOODLUCKCHARM
Actor Estrada ERIK
Admitting both sexes COED
Alder or aspen TREE
Bartlett's cousin BOSC
Beat soundly ROUT
Benjamin Franklin Pierce portrayer ALDA
Bradley and McMahon EDS
Burn soother ALOE
Chief official of Venice DOGE
Civil War battle site SHILOH
Coup d'___ ETAT
Cut into small pieces MINCE
Dash's counterpart DOT
Defensive stalwart LINEBACKER
End of a court game name ALAI
Entre ___ NOUS
Famous Foxx REDD
Faultfinding CAPTIOUS
Fertilization sites OVA
First word of North Carolina's motto ESSE
Fruit for flavoring gin SLOE
Golden Fleece ship ARGO
Groundbreaker HOE
Hawaiian port HILO
Id companion EGO
In an upright position ERECT
Intestinal ILEAC
Island off Alaska ATTU
It's usually served with lobster BIB
Kind of thermometer ORAL
Clues Answers
Knock or social preceder ANTI
Light bulb, to Edison and comics IDEA
Make clear SPELLOUT
Mentally sound SANE
Montana pass? SPIRAL
More imminent NEARER
More than lean BONY
Musical composition ETUDE
Needing directions LOST
Not the retiring type DOER
Paper ballot piece CHAD
PC screen, possibly CRT
Phyllis Lindstrom's TV hubby LARS
Prefix meaning "wine" OENO
Prefix with cycle or pod TRI
Prig SNOB
Public opening NOTARY
Put into words UTTER
Queen before George I ANNE
Raise children REAR
Rat Islands resident ALEUT
Roma's hill count SETTE
Scatters seed SOWS
Silvery gray ASH
So-so mark CEE
Some unconscious states COMAS
Surpass OUTDO
They may be found in prospectors' sectors ORES
Thick slice SLAB
Things cast for Jesus' clothes LOTS
Thou ___ protest too much DOEST
Three-player card game SKAT
Very wide shoes EEES
Wagner specialty OPERA
Walk heavily PLOD
Where Jesus was arrested GETHSEMANE
___ plexus SOLAR
___-Ball (arcade game) SKEE