Newsday.com - Sep 16 2012

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Clues Answers
''Come __, the water's fine!'' ONIN
''Golden Boy'' playwright ODETS
''M*A*S*H'' star ALDA
''Star Wars'' series beasts EWOKS
1862 battle SHILOH
Accumulated RANUP
Arguing ATIT
Attack and pillage MARAUD
Austria's capital, to natives WIEN
Avoid answering EVADE
Backpacker HIKER
Banish EXILE
Barbershop singer BASS
Be in charge RULE
Beat a retreat SPLIT
Beats a retreat BOLTS
Befuddled ATSEA
Big Band contingent HORNS
Big name in little blocks LEGO
Big occasion EVENT
Bogged down MIRED
Bone-dry ARID
Books reviewer CPA
Buddhist priests LAMAS
Bullfight ''bravo'' OLE
Cancel, as a launch ABORT
Carriage driver's accessory BUGGYWHIP
Chihuahua ''Cheers!'' SALUD
Comic actor __ Baron Cohen SACHA
Commandments verb SHALT
Compares LIKENS
Confusing ADDLING
Contemptible person WORM
Cow catcher LASSO
Cut out OMIT
Defeats, so to speak LICKS
Designer __ Saint Laurent YVES
Diner mishap SPILL
Dishonest gambler's toss CROOKEDDICE
Dojo blow KARATECHOP
Done too well BURNT
Drizzling RAINY
Drizzling WET
Dropped in rank BUSTED
Duffer's woe WICKEDSLICE
Evening, in ads NITE
Eye-bending works OPART
Farmer's topper STRAWHAT
Freezing precipitation WINTRYMIX
Frigidaire competitor AMANA
Fritter away WASTE
Garlicky sauce AIOLI
German ''Johnny'' HANS
Gets a lift RIDES
Gettysburg general MEADE
GI offense AWOL
Goalie gear PADS
Gold discovery site of 1848 SUTTERSMILL
Gossip column subjects STARS
GPS reading ESE
Grant entry to LETIN
Gymnast Mary Lou RETTON
Habeas corpus, e.g WRIT
Has to MUST
Have __ (be connected) ANIN
Hipster's ''Understood!'' IDIG
Hot rock LAVA
It means ''recent'' NEO
Jazz artist's cue HITIT
John McCain, for one EXPOW
Kilimanjaro covering SNOW
Lacking color PALE
Lacking color ASHEN
Clues Answers
Landscaper supply SEED
Layered entrÀée LASAGNA
Lendl of tennis IVAN
Leprechaun's land ERIN
Letter carrier's area ROUTE
Lhasa __ (dog breed) APSO
Liberal arts subj HIST
Like Gorgonzola VEINY
Longest lasting OLDEST
Luggage inspection org TSA
Makes notes on MARKSUP
Met secretly TRYSTED
Metal in pewter TIN
Metric trillion TERA
Midwest hub OHARE
Mimic's work APERY
Modern-day Persia IRAN
Mongol ruler KHAN
Most guileful SLIEST
NASDAQ alternative AMEX
Newsstand KIOSK
No-good ending NIK
Novelty tune heard around Halloween MONSTERMASH
On the up-and-up LICIT
One way to fuse metal ARCWELD
Oodles ALOT
Oodles GOBS
Pennsylvania port ERIE
Photo finish MATTE
Play about Capote TRU
Prefix for physics META
Prefix for space AERO
Present unfairly SKEW
Proofreader's mark DELE
Propeller sounds WHIRS
Property crime LARCENY
Protein building block, for short AMINO
Raised platforms ALTARS
Responds to reveille AWAKENS
Ring-tailed primate LEMUR
San Francisco NFLer NINER
Set the pace LED
Shakespearean prince HAL
Shows team spirit ROOTS
Small snack BITE
Somewhat 37 Down MOIST
Somewhat improper RACY
Stanford-__ IQ test BINET
Take second vows REWED
Takes care of SEESTO
Tapered off WANED
The same old, same old DAILYGRIND
Three-line verse HAIKU
Ticks off RILES
To __ (perfectly) ATEE
Trade punches SPAR
Trap enticement BAIT
Turned into yarn SPUN
Type of well ARTESIAN
Underground resource ORE
Unwrap in a hurry RIPOPEN
Urban vent STEAMGRATE
Used to be WAS
Util. bill ELEC
Victorian era prime minister ROBERTPEEL
Was fed up HADIT
Way to get directions ASK
Without delay ATONCE
Withstand BEAR
Young miss GIRL
__ Alamos, NM LOS
__-friendly software USER
__-pitch softball SLO