USA Today - Dec 6 2005

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Clues Answers
"Everybody Loves Raymond" role MARIE
"I've got a mule, her name is ___ . . ." SAL
"In ___ of flowers . . ." LIEU
"Is that ___?" ("You don't say!") AFACT
"Lord of the Rings" baddie ORC
"Melrose ___" PLACE
"To ___ is human" ERR
"Tune ___ 11" INAT
"What am I getting myself ___?" INTO
"With all ___ respect . . ." DUE
"Yes!" ABSOLUTELY
"Yes!" BYALLMEANS
"Yes!" UNDOUBTEDLY
"Yes!" BUTOFCOURSE
"___ Geste" BEAU
61-Down, essentially TIE
Abstainer NONUSER
Academy offering AWARD
Acclimate ADAPT
Actor Diesel VIN
Actress ___ Jessica Parker SARAH
Additional performance ENCORE
Adjusts to conform ADAPTS
Advise strongly URGE
African badgerlike animal RATEL
Agreeable answer THATSFINEBYME
Al Bundy's wife PEG
All dried out SERE
Aptitude determiners TESTS
Arabian gulf OMAN
Arizona landscape features MESAS
Art ___ DECO
Baseball legend Mel, ''The Little Giant'' OTT
Bean-curd product TOFU
Bear's hunting method TREEING
Becomes semisolid GELS
Birthplace of Elie Wiesel ROMANIA
Blood pressure raiser IRE
Breadbasket MAW
Building support IBEAM
Carter or Grant AMY
Cat's cry MEW
Catamount PUMA
Certain lyric poem EPODE
Chess result, sometimes DRAW
City in Ukraine, to Russians LVOV
Coffee choice IRISH
Color-changing lizard AGAMA
Counselors' org. ABA
Coward of note NOEL
Cuts (off) LOPS
Destructive emotion HATE
Diamond Head's site OAHU
Diary of sorts LOG
Dole (out) METE
Drum out OUST
Early pulpit AMBO
Eggheady sort, stereotypically NERD
Egyptian deity OSIRIS
Els who has tees ERNIE
Enclosures for swine STIES
Enthusiastic response NOWYOURETALKING
Exasperated OK ALLRIGHTALREADY
Exclamation of disgust UGH
Expressed delight verbally OOHED
Family of offspring BROOD
Famous horse SILVER
Fleur-de-___ (Quebec symbol) LIS
Francis of ''What's My Line?'' ARLENE
French door component SASH
Frosted ICED
Furnace embers COALS
Gambrel or mansard ROOF
Georgia neighbor ARMENIA
Get off the fence ACT
Greek sandwich GYRO
Greystoke raiser APE
Hair controller GEL
Clues Answers
Hangs, like an earring DANGLES
Heroic tales EPICS
Hockey legend Bobby ORR
Ignite (with "to") SETFIRE
It was circulated in San Marino LIRE
Khayyam opus RUBAIYAT
Kind of heat SOLAR
Knockout's opposite CRONE
Laywers' org. ABA
Legendary treasure city ELDORADO
Like Arctic winters SEVERE
Likewise TOO
Lisa or David of TV HARTMAN
Luau food POI
Major network NBC
Margarita garnish LIME
Metric unit of 1,000 kilograms TONNE
MIT word TECH
Mo. for a good scare OCT
Money in Moscow RUBLE
More recent NEWER
More than large OBESE
Motive for action REASON
Musial of Cooperstown STAN
Musical sensitivity EAR
New couple in the news ITEM
Number on an almanac YEAR
OK fellow? SOONER
On one's own SOLO
On the other hand WHEREAS
Past one's prime, perhaps AGED
Pest for a rose APHID
Pirouette pivot point TOE
Place for a wedding, often ALTAR
Pleistocene glacial period ICEAGE
Positive aspect UPSIDE
Primitive weapon SPEAR
Proficient ADEPT
Related AKIN
Roman tyrant NERO
Serenity spoiler NOISE
Shade of beige ECRU
Sheep's plaint BAA
Skewered food KABOB
Skye miss LASS
Slightly colored TINGED
Something to see at the Met OPERA
Sorceress of Greek myth CIRCE
Spectacular shows PAGEANTS
Spectacular star NOVA
Stumped GOT
Superior neighbor ERIE
Synthetic fabric RAYON
Talent broker AGENT
Tiny bit SPECK
Try to win over WOO
Type of eye surgery LASER
Type of ticket SEASON
Udder parts TEATS
Use a skewer STAB
Very small amount TAD
Vocal solo, sometimes ARIA
Wasn't kidding about MEANT
Wed on the fly ELOPE
Wee hour ONE
Whichever is chosen ANY
White-centered snack OREO
Who's left? LIBERALS
Wise Athenian statesman SOLON
Word in ''America, the Beautiful'' SEA
Word in a James Jones title HERE
Word with coach or home MOTOR
Worst market share NONE
You may take it lying down REST
___ Aviv, Israel TEL
___ de Janeiro RIO
___ del Sol, Spain COSTA
___ fixe IDEE