USA Today - Apr 18 2006

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Clues Answers
''Blame It on ___'' (Caine film) RIO
''The Girl From Gay ___'' (1927) PAREE
''Tom Thumb'' composer ARNE
''___ Boot'' (1981 film) DAS
Alpine transport, e.g. TRAM
Ammonia compound AMIDE
Animal at home on the range ANTELOPE
Avoid ignorance LEARN
Awesome! SUPERDUPER
Awesome! OOH
Awesome! TREMENDOUS
Awesome! INCREDIBLE
Awesome! OUTOFSIGHT
Baseball bat wood ASH
Battery terminal ANODE
Brainsick MAD
Chain of hills RIDGE
Cogito ITHINK
Collector of foreign stamps PASSPORT
Conclusion for Ann or Jean ETTE
Cowrie cover SHELL
Dance or sauce SALSA
Desertlike SERE
Dissolute one ROUE
Emit coherent light LASE
Formal ceremony RITE
Fortitude METTLE
Freedom from financial need EASE
Good luck charm AMULET
Govt. IOU TBILL
Grew fond of TOOKTO
Hebdomad WEEK
Historic assassination date IDES
Horseshoe site HOOF
It lays eggs out back? EMU
It may be hard to believe TALLTALE
It's never neutral ION
Kelly of TV RIPA
Kemo ___ (''trusty scout'') SABE
Clues Answers
Kennel comment ARF
Kwanzaa day NIA
Lampoon SATIRE
Lincoln Center landmark, informally THEMET
McGwire broke his record MARIS
Memsahib's nurse, perhaps AMAH
Midler of stage and screen BETTE
Moment of forgetfulness LAPSE
More than a twinge STAB
Multiply GROW
Not in shape? BENT
Old-style affirmation HEARHEAR
One ''A'' in Paris UNE
One way to stand ALONE
Palindromic English river EXE
Poppycock HOOEY
Posts on a ship's deck BITTS
Proscribed by society as improper TABOO
Pub pint ALE
Reclusive Garbo GRETA
Sitcom diner MELS
Something to rule ROOST
Sound equipment giant BOSE
Splinter groups, sometimes SECTS
Squire GENT
Stonecutters MASONS
Tack on ANNEX
Target practice game SKEET
The ones right here THESE
Thesaurus compiler ROGET
They get belted regularly WAISTS
They may be on the game EYES
They're found in a yard FEET
Turbine part ROTOR
Vowed SWORE
Woodwind with a conical bore OBOE
Word with drops or canal EAR
Ye ___ Curiosity Shoppe OLDE
___-pitch softball SLO