USA Today - Aug 2 2005

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Clues Answers
''60 Minutes'' personality ROONEY
''Don't you wish!'' ASIF
''Present!'' HERE
'60s skirt MINI
Acclamation ECLAT
Anesthetize, in a way GAS
Arm stiffeners RADII
Attention-getting shout HEY
Baby Moses was hidden among them REEDS
Baffin Bay hazard FLOE
Barbershop item COMB
Batman and Robin, e.g. DUO
Beaver State OREGON
Best Picture winner, 1977 ROCKY
Billion years AEON
Blame bearer GOAT
Blubber FLAB
Blue ox of literature BABE
Burkina ____, W. African nation FASO
Bygone player HIFI
Cause of a scene, perhaps SHOUTINGMATCH
Certain member of an Islamic people KURD
Channel choker SILT
Cheeky BRASH
Child's toy PLAYTHING
Chisel mark GOUGE
Choral music parts CANTOS
Cinematic mainframe HAL
City on seven hills ROME
Classic Parker Brothers game SORRY
Cleopatra's undoing ASP
Composition for eight voices OCTET
Computer fodder INFO
Crater mouths RIMS
DEA agent NARCO
Double agent, e.g. SPY
Dressing choice HOUSE
Drives the getaway car ABETS
Ebullient AGOG
Elixir TONIC
Encouragement from the stands ROAROFTHECROWD
Ersatz butter OLEO
Estrangements RIFTS
Evening event SOIREE
Fabric measures, briefly YDS
Faux pas SLIP
Flatfish SOLE
Freeze over ICEUP
Give one's best shot TRY
Gobi's location ASIA
Goofed up ERRED
Graceful dance step PAS
Graphic symbols ICONS
Hand lender AIDE
Happy face feature SMILE
Have remorse RUE
Heart outlet AORTA
Hint of uncertainty WHISPEROFDOUBT
Hold fast ADHERE
Hostile to ANTI
Houston and Snead SAMS
Hunger YEARN
Immature egg OOCYTE
Improvise, musically SCAT
In the offing AFOOT
Indian royalty RANI
Is irate SEESRED
It may pave the way TAR
It's ducky TEAL
Jacob's brother ESAU
Jerk SCHMO
Joint concern? ACHE
Killer whale ORCA
Kin of ''Phooey!'' BAH
Kind of chair ARM
Ladies of the field EWES
Lancelot du ___ LAC
Clues Answers
Lawn maintenance tool EDGER
Leaders take it HELM
Like lettuce LEAFY
Liquid used as a refrigerant CRYOGEN
Lob's trajectory ARC
Lurch and sway CAREEN
Magnetic recording medium TAPE
Makers of batik DYERS
Master of ceremonies EMCEE
Memorial meal SEDER
Mongrel CUR
Mouth off RANT
Movie pooch ASTA
Multicolored PIED
Nevertheless EVENSO
Nice and cozy SNUG
Old-fashioned introduction CALLINGCARD
On the bright side KEEN
One who may put you in your place USHER
Out of the norm ODD
Parent's challenge, sometimes TEEN
Pasta topper PESTO
Patsy DUPE
Peels backward? SLEEP
Peke's bark YAP
Person that's pointed at LAUGHINGSTOCK
Pest for a rose APHID
Pestiferous IRKSOME
Place for la familia CASA
Porker's pad STY
Post-firing task RELOAD
Practiced conservation REUSED
Prepare to swallow CHEW
Pressing URGENT
Pretty hopeless GRIM
Proofreader's notation, perhaps DELE
Puts on DONS
Putting on, as a theatrical production STAGING
Real pity CRYINGSHAME
Reunion member ALUM
Roman poet OVID
Round third GOHOME
Rubbernecks GAWKS
Run ___ of the law AFOUL
Salty retort OATH
Samson's pride HAIR
Scuttlebutt WORDONTHESTREET
Secret stash CACHE
Singapore sling ingredient GIN
Siren's sound WAIL
Sister's kid NIECE
Small-minded PETTY
Smooth and lustrous SILKY
Some gaits CANTERS
Stallone, to friends SLY
Start of a Keats title ODEON
Stocking shade NUDE
Surgical beam LASER
Takes minutes NOTATES
Tankard contents, often ALE
Thing in a court document RES
Things to shoot for BULLSEYES
TV-regulating Agency FCC
Type of cost UNIT
Type of opera HORSE
U.S. president and also chief justice TAFT
U.S. veep, once AGNEW
Up to the job ABLE
Use a pew for support KNEEL
Versed in UPON
Volcano in Italy ETNA
Where to get your Nobel Prize OSLO
Woman's apparel DRESS
Woodhouse of literature EMMA
Word with timer or roll EGG
Writer McEwan IAN
___ Island Red (chicken) RHODE