USA Today - Mar 31 2005

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Clues Answers
''. . . best ___ plans . . .'' LAID
''Butterfield 8'' author OHARA
''Lovely ___'' (1967 song) RITA
1969 World Series stadium SHEA
A little bundle of energy ATOM
Agendum ITEM
Aggregates SUMS
Alliance since 1949 NATO
Among AMID
Basketball crowd-pleaser SLAM
Be good enough MAKETHEGRADE
Be good enough FITTHEBILL
Be good enough STANDTHETEST
Be good enough PASSMUSTER
Bill addition TIP
Capital of the Nabataeans PETRA
Cookie favorite OREO
Cries of surprise OHS
Crowning point APEX
Do more than see RAISE
Enceladus' burial place, in myth ETNA
Enthusiasm ELAN
Entomologist's subject INSECT
Famous Castle IRENE
Film sleeper of 1978? COMA
First name among former ''SNL'' cast members DANA
First name among sitarists RAVI
He does Windows GATES
Historic theater APOLLO
Hot STOLEN
Insignificant MERE
Institution founded in 1701 YALE
Iron attachment? CLAD
It moves tape through a machine CAPSTAN
It's lower than dirt SEED
Kind of table or zone END
King's proclamation EDICT
Knight's wife DAME
Like fine wines AGED
Clues Answers
Like the universe VAST
Literary bear MAMA
Love's inspiration EROS
Manhattan or London district SOHO
Menu phrase, perhaps ALA
Mustard family member KALE
Name with a Diamond in front LIL
Omar's product TENT
Passe phone part DIAL
Pave the way for ENABLE
Picker-upper, of a sort TAXI
Plumbing joints ELLS
Procrastinator's tomorrow TODAY
Pub offering ALE
Realize, as profits REAP
Some hummingbirds EMERALDS
Some out-of-the-way places CAFES
Some party nights EVES
Sonnies LADS
State of confusion MIXUP
Stereotypical wear for pirates PATCHES
Subject for Aristotle LOGIC
Ten on the volume control, typically LOUDEST
Tenderfoot ROOKIE
The life of Riley EASE
They come for your birthday CARDS
They have pressing needs CREASES
They may go to blazes AXES
They're big on Clark Gable EARS
Thought a great deal of ADORED
Underground Pueblo chamber KIVA
Unsettling EERIE
Used a links peg TEED
What an angry football center does? SNAPS
What you stand to lose? LAP
Woodward or Bernstein, e.g. REPORTER
Word with catch or hang ONTO
Xenophobe's fear ALIEN
Zero NIL