USA Today - Aug 16 2005

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Clues Answers
''3'' letters DEF
''Have a piece!'' TRYONE
''Son of ___!'' AGUN
''The First ___'' NOEL
''The Texan'' star Calhoun RORY
''The Time Machine'' people ELOI
''When in Rome, ___ the Romans . . .'' DOAS
2,240 pounds (with ''long'') TON
Abacus piece BEAD
Actor Robert De ___ NIRO
Actresses Long and Peeples NIAS
Ad or ab ender SORB
Adept in GOODAT
Agendum ITEM
Alabama port MOBILE
Allowing a draft, e.g. AJAR
Amateur video subject, maybe UFO
An unmentionable BRA
Around the bend NUTS
Auction action NOD
Auction ending? EER
Authenticated VALID
Beauty preceder AGE
Blow off steam VENT
Bothered no end ATEAT
Boxes ENCASES
Bridge bid, briefly ONENO
British family member MUM
Buddhist teaching SUTRA
Cash substitutes IOUS
Ceiling supports, perhaps TWOBYFOURJOISTS
Check the figures? OGLE
Chess player's ''Way to go!'' GOODMOVE
Chip in GIVE
Commercially popular HOT
Contrariwise ELSE
Cruces opener LAS
Cuckoo bird ANI
Depend (on) RELY
Devices to catch the unsuspecting TRAPS
Dundee denial NAE
Earth tone OCHER
End of darkness? ESSES
Enlightened about ONTO
Eva or her sister GABOR
Expensive car trips? TOWS
Fascinated by INTO
Faster than largo ADAGIO
FEET POETICMEASURES
Five- or nine-digit number ZIP
Garage band's tape DEMO
Gathers REAPS
Geologic epoch EOCENE
Gift ___ OFGAB
Good way to drive SOBERLY
Hennery COOP
Ill-gotten gains LOOT
Imperial autocrat TSAR
In a jam, in a way TREED
Inadvisable action NONO
INCHES MOVESVERYSLOWLY
It may be perfect TENSE
It may hold speech notes THREEBYFIVECARD
It's nonreturnable ACE
Italian noble surname ESTE
Jam ingredient? CAR
Jeanne d'Arc or Bernadette, briefly STE
Jersey hangout LEA
Jet effect LAG
July 1944 battle site STLO
Junction points NODES
Keebler worker ELF
Kind of button RESET
Kind of committee ADHOC
Kind of little package NEAT
Kind of maniac EGO
Kind of market or media MASS
Kind of seal EARED
Clues Answers
Last six lines of a sonnet SESTET
Laurel and Hardy, e.g. DUO
Least likely to bite TAMEST
Legendary actor Davis OSSIE
Let the cat out of the bag TOLD
Lie or murder, e.g. SIN
Like some floors TILED
M or L, e.g. SIZE
Ma with a bow YOYO
Martini's partner ROSSI
MILES JAZZLEGENDDAVIS
Modern hotel features ATRIA
Move like molasses OOZE
Narc chaser? OTIC
No good ROTTEN
None of the above OTHER
One of Franklin's two certainties DEATH
Opposite of celebrate MOURN
Order to a chauffeur HOME
Out of sight PERDU
Pack animal? RAT
Paid attendees GATE
Painter of ballerinas DEGAS
Palindromic emperor OTTO
Paranormal EERIE
Part of a Car and Driver review RIDE
Part of Batman's costume COWL
Pass from one to another RELAY
Pirate's trademark EYEPATCH
Plumlike fruit SLOE
Pond covering SCUM
Popeye's tattoo ANCHOR
Pound of verse EZRA
Red army member? ANT
Red-eyed songbird VIREO
Reward for three little kittens PIE
River to the Rio Grande PECOS
Rolodex nos. TELS
Romantic rendezvous TRYST
Round of seasons YEAR
Rude gibe JEER
Rugged ridges ARETES
Schooldays memento EIGHTBYTENPHOTO
Sets straight ALIGNS
Shoving match? SUMO
Sidekick PAL
Slur over ELIDE
Smooth-talking GLIB
Sock section TOE
Some pols DEMS
Son of Seth ENOS
Southwestern native UTE
Start to a carol ADESTE
Substitute for the unnamed ETAL
Tea quantity SPOT
Tell tale missile ARROW
Tentmaker of yore OMAR
The Kinks classic LOLA
Tie over, in music SLUR
Tijuana time-out SIESTA
Top of the line BEST
Turkish honorific AGHA
Type of bean SOYA
Uncle Miltie BERLE
Undercover worker, perhaps NARC
Use a spoon, in a way STIR
Victuals EATS
Water source WELL
Wedding notice word, perhaps NEE
What one isn't EVEN
Whiskey chaser? AGOGO
Wine choice ROSE
Witchcraft goddess, in Greek myth HECATE
With a lot to lose? OBESE
Word with ''pipe'' or ''mouth'' ORGAN
Yards SUBURBANSIGHTS
Zilch SQUAT
___ au vin COQ