USA Today - Dec 5 2005

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Clues Answers
''Don Quixote'' author de Cervantes MIGUEL
''Night'' author Wiesel ELIE
''No ___ traffic'' THRU
''No ___, Bob!'' SIREE
''___ Small World'' ITSA
Actor-brother of John Wilkes Booth EDWIN
American marsupial, commonly POSSUM
Bony OSSEOUS
Bring down DEPRESS
By way of VIA
Calf's call MAA
Capture completely TAKEBYSTORM
Cash on hand? BET
Cattle owners RANCHERS
City of central Israel LOD
City on the Colorado River YUMA
Climb, as a pole SHIN
Cooking meas. TSP
CPR administrant EMT
Dear companion NEAR
Deep track RUT
DOD projectile ICBM
Drollery WIT
EPA rating MPG
Equip to new specs REFIT
Extremely sociable person PARTYANIMAL
Famous failure EDSEL
First name among the ''Desperate Housewives'' cast ALFRE
Flowery tribute ODE
Good for snuggling COMFY
Hold dear CHERISH
In the style of ALA
It may be wrinkled or knitted BROW
It might be rubbed out GENIE
It transfers PC data between components COMPUTERBUS
Jackson's first VP CALHOUN
John's in here BIBLE
Joy GLADNESS
Clues Answers
Last Beatles album before their breakup LETITBE
Laura Bush, ___ Welch NEE
Less apt to wait one's turn PUSHIER
Liable APT
Like F.D.R.'s deal NEW
Like triceratops HORNED
Lost its effect WOREOFF
Ma(n) with a bow YOYO
Madrid-to-Athens dir. ESE
More malleable SOFTER
Mosquitoes, gnats, etc. PESTS
Movie follow-up to ''Get Smart'' THENUDEBOMB
Nebraska's largest city OMAHA
Olympic skater Babilonia TAI
Org. battled by 007 SPECTRE
Parroted APED
Photographer Adams ANSEL
Poet Khayyám OMAR
Proverbial brickload TON
Rite answer? IDO
River flowing into the Seine OISE
Roundup necessity LASSO
Short socks ANKLETS
Shriner or Wheaton WIL
Sioux branch OTOE
South America's largest city SAOPAULO
Spade and Uncle SAMS
Symbol of wisdom OWL
Ticket ignorer SCOFFLAW
Toy related to a movie, e.g. TIEIN
Treasured violin AMATI
Turns in the right direction ORIENTS
Type of mitt or rack OVEN
USNA graduate, perhaps ENS
Wall Street woe PANIC
Wheels of fortune? LIMOS
Word with paper or film CLIP
X-ray relative MRI