USA Today - Feb 1 2006

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Clues Answers
''Intimations of Immortality,'' e.g. ODE
1944-45 battle BULGE
1962 and 1998 orbiter GLENN
A quarter of eight TWO
Apt lunch for Superman HERO
Aware of, slangily HIPTO
Bert's buddy ERNIE
Bread spreads OLEOS
Bricklaying gear HODS
Build a reserve of AMASS
Commencement ONSET
Deg. holder GRAD
Deliverers of express mail? PONIES
Didn't merely grow BOOMED
Does likewise APES
Embarrassing problem to face? ACNE
Eyeball OGLE
Fight site ARENA
Fine finish ARTS
Fit to be tied IRATE
Forbiddance BAN
Gallivant GAD
Handsome lad of myth ADONIS
Has the courage to try DARES
Have to have NEED
Hits the road GOES
Icelandic literary work EDDA
Iniquitous places DENS
Initial start OUTSET
It holds a yard MAST
It may be between your teeth GAP
It's often posted BAIL
Kind of number REAL
Lavishes affection DOTES
Like a dryer's trap LINTY
Like some committees ADHOC
Like some petticoats LACY
Lobster portion CLAW
Marshal's duty KEEPINGTHEPEACE
Clues Answers
Maven EXPERT
Mister's analogue MADAM
More than -er EST
Mother follower LODE
Noggin NOODLE
Not quite a ten LESSTHANPERFECT
One is ''Come here often?'' LINE
Orthopedist's tool XRAY
Part of an old phone DIAL
Pass over SKIP
Pay to hold hands ANTE
PC character set ASCII
Pertaining to an arm bone ULNAR
Polar assistant ELF
Quarry PREY
Reached home SCORED
Reliquary, perhaps SHRINE
River in Northern California EEL
Rugged ridge ARETE
Semicircles ARCS
Service-station service LUBE
Set, as cement HARDEN
Sgt. Snorkel's dog OTTO
Sicilian mount ETNA
Skedaddled FLED
Skeptic's grain SALT
Some shirts POLOS
Spherical coifs AFROS
Sporty cars, familiarly ALFAS
Terminal figure? REDCAP
Unnamed auth. ANON
Verifiable TRUE
Warsaw, for one PACT
Wet bars? SOAPS
What a busboy clears? TABLEOFCONTENTS
What's more ALSO
With little potential for further growth MATURE
Worst kind of loser SORE
Zealous ARDENT