USA Today - Aug 23 2005

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Clues Answers
''Amen'' deacon FRYE
''Believe ___ Not!'' ITOR
''Cyrano de Bergerac'' actor FERRER
''Friends'' role ROSS
''Georgy Girl'' singers (with ''The'') SEEKERS
''Pong'' creator ATARI
''___ for Murder'' DIALM
''___ Can!'' (Sammy Davis Jr. book) YESI
768 tsps. GAL
A pick may be placed in it AFRO
Allots METES
Approach NEAR
Being, to Caesar ESSE
Bridge declaration, perhaps IPASS
Bug bomb target PEST
Chinese masculine force YANG
Costa del ___ SOL
Country Music Hall of Fame member PATSYCLINE
Crimson Tide, briefly BAMA
Denominational offshoot SECT
Diary starter DEAR
Die spot PIP
Display disdain SNEER
Eighty-six TOSS
First name in talk shows ELLEN
Garden tool SPADE
Garrulous CHATTY
Get a lode of this ORE
Grable's trademarks GAMS
Group character ETHOS
Harper sitcom RHODA
Having moderate heat TEPID
Heirloom RELIC
Icelandic poetry collection EDDA
Identify, in a way PEG
Indian Head pennies, etc. RARECOINS
It once preceded Germany EAST
It's often controlling REIN
Laila's father ALI
Clues Answers
Language written in Devanagari HINDI
Like a rainbow ARCED
Liz Smith squib ITEM
Maiden-named NEE
Mercy and love, for two SEATS
Numbers for crunching, e.g. DATA
Oatmeal color ECRU
Oft-relocated employee FLOATER
Photo finish? STAT
Picnic at the shore, perhaps FISHFRY
Pillow cover SHAM
Pipe types ELLS
Pluperfect, e.g. TENSE
Presidencies, to historians ERAS
Pro-___ (tourneys) AMS
Pt. of LPGA PRO
Punta del ___ ESTE
Quarter deck? SUIT
Ran full tilt TORE
Rifle support BIPOD
Rubbish TRIPE
Sear a steak CHAR
Settings for idylls LEAS
Shoulder muscles, to a bodybuilder DELTS
Small amount of money CHUMPCHANGE
Some are compact DISCS
Some USN personnel CPOS
Stamp-of-approval letters USDA
They cover a lot of space? ETS
They roll on baseball fields TARPS
Tropical legumes PIGEONPEAS
Type of letter UPPERCASE
Unexpected blow SUCKERPUNCH
Vaulted settings APSES
Way to decrease? IRON
West Point posture ERECT
Word with soap or horse OPERA
Words with ''the minute'' and ''date'' UPTO
___ Stanley Gardner ERLE