USA Today - Mar 24 2006

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Clues Answers
''Stop worrying!'' RELAX
''The Time Machine'' people ELOI
''___ My Party'' ITS
0-0, 50-50, etc. TIES
A meter reader CABDRIVER
Adlerian study EGO
Agricultural tool HOE
Alpha opposite OMEGA
Approach NEAR
Aristophanes' H ETA
Art Deco celebrity ERTE
Bird that's never on the wing EMU
Boss Tweed caricaturist NAST
Caruso, notably TENOR
Centuries-old Sicilian threat ETNA
Checking over visually (Var.) EYING
Cheer opener SIS
Cheese coat, at times RIND
Circular opening? SEMI
Collar piercer, perhaps STUD
Cool off, as a fad DIEOUT
Dame Sitwell EDITH
Deprive of courage UNMAN
Edna Ferber novel SOBIG
Enlistee's choice NAVY
F.H. Burnett's children's classic (''The'') SECRETGARDEN
Feisty fictional orphan ANNIE
Fifth day of Kwanzaa NIA
First name in tennis ANDRE
Furtive mission COVERTOPERATION
Game of pursuit TAG
Ham holder, perhaps RYE
Ham it up EMOTE
High-school subj. SCI
Iconoclastic creative movement DADA
Insensible condition COMA
It offers a step up RUNG
Jai ___ ALAI
Jamaican pop music SKA
Clues Answers
Longed (for) HANKERED
Lumbago, e.g. BACKACHE
Military band? SASH
Mole UNDERCOVERAGENT
Mouths, anatomically ORA
Nobel-winning U.N. agency, 1969 ILO
Offer a critique RATE
One doing checks and balances? CPA
One of us? YOU
Parliamentary response AYE
Participate in a secret joint venture? ELOPE
Perform in whiteface, perhaps MIME
Polish partner SPIT
Puppy love CRUSH
Religious offshoot SECT
River to Solway Firth DEE
Self-evident truths AXIOMS
Small mount PONY
Sneaky plan HIDDENAGENDA
Solidify GEL
Something that's cut and dried HAY
Spain's ill-fated force ARMADA
Spotted equine PINTO
Stock ticker innovator EDISON
Sugar substitute? DEAR
Tough situation BIND
Trek segment LEG
Two ONEANDONE
Type of card TAROT
Type of student or school, briefly GRAD
Untrustworthy sort RAT
West of Hollywood MAE
What some things are taken in? STRIDE
Wickerworker's willow OSIER
Wife in ''Finnegans Wake'' ANNA
William Wallace, for one SCOT
Wing-shaped ALAR
Winning or losing follower STREAK
With plenty of space ROOMY