USA Today - Dec 14 2005

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Clues Answers
''Scram!'' BEATIT
About ASTO
Air-breathing arthropod INSECT
Altar area APSE
Always, poetically EER
Amaze FLOOR
Anagram of lies ISLE
Answered a charge PLED
Appease SOOTHE
Appliance attachment CORD
Arhus native DANE
Birler's perch LOG
Blackjack card with two values ACE
British Revolutionary War commander GAGE
Business that doesn't want to keep books PUBLISHINGHOUSE
Business VIP or dove call COO
Capital of the United Arab Emirates ABUDHABI
Center of activity HUB
Choose OPT
Cow accessory BELL
Doubting Thomas SKEPTIC
Drink with rum and lime MAITAI
Edict DECREE
Fifth Ave. crime fighters NYPD
Flockhart role MCBEAL
Freestanding cupboard ARMOIRE
Fuss ADO
Gift for a diva ROSE
Gymnast's dream TEN
Home in Havana CASA
Houston university RICE
Indication of a fish on a line TUG
Intellectual showoff PEDANT
Investment choice REALESTATE
It may be compact DISC
It should set off alarms HEIST
Japanese ceremonial drink TEA
Jerusalem artichoke, for one TUBER
Jibe AGREE
Clues Answers
Judge Judy's org. ABA
Jungfrau, e.g. ALP
Kennedy Library architect PEI
Kind of alert SMOG
Letter opener, sometimes DEARSIR
Main point GIST
Maker of checkout devices NCR
Medicine cabinet staple ASPIRIN
Mobile site CRIB
Modern marketplace EBAY
Muumuu accessory LEI
Mystery Writers of America award EDGAR
Nobelist Wiesel ELIE
One offering good wishes TOASTER
Opinion opposed to usual belief HERESY
Parks in Atlantic City BERT
Place for hands SHIP
Promoter of intl. cooperation UNESCO
Pupil's place EYE
Related to the handling of details LOGISTIC
Roadsign, perhaps GAS
Root for URGEON
Short profiles BIOS
Show with a prince and fairies NUTCRACKERSUITE
Space to maneuver WIGGLEROOM
Spacious type of bag TOTE
Standoffish ALOOF
Sturgeon yield ROE
Subjoins ADDS
Surrounded by AMID
Tear violently REND
Tell's home canton URI
Trade org. since 1960 OPEC
Trashy trait? ODOR
TV crime show NCIS
University of Utah team UTES
Unmatched ODD
Vancouver-to-Calgary dir. ENE
Weep and wail BAWL