USA Today - Jun 7 2006

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Clues Answers
''. . . the violet-embroidered ___'' (Milton) VALE
''I lack iniquity'' speaker IAGO
''Long, Long ___'' AGO
''___ there, matey!'' AHOY
Altar word, sometimes OBEY
Authority to decide SAYSO
Big or little digit TOE
Bubkes NADA
Certain East Asian THAI
Chalice partner PATEN
Clothes closers SNAPS
Comes to a decision OPTS
Contemptible person TOAD
Cookbook abbreviation TSP
Do ruinous damage RAVAGE
Experiencing jitters EDGY
Fear PHOBIA
Flattered most sincerely APED
Further shorten, as a board RESAW
Had a snack NOSHED
Having a diamond-shaped pattern ARGYLE
HMO listing GPS
Improve, as skills HONE
Insult badly ABASE
It may be covered with polish NAIL
It may be studied in school ANCIENTHISTORY
It's taken at the diner ORDER
Kind of ID PHOTO
Like some goals LOFTY
Like some premonitions EERIE
Literary snippets, e.g. ANAS
Loam, e.g. SOIL
Look or must adjunct SEE
Lovers of the stage HAMS
Make more substantial FATTEN
Maltese comment MEOW
Masked men at home UMPS
Mayberry denizen PYLE
Clues Answers
Mountain of Greek legend OSSA
Muslim chief IMAM
Ninth month of the Hindu calendar AGHAN
Nonflowering plant FERN
Not docked ATSEA
Note notation SHARP
Old info YESTERDAYSNEWS
One of nine Siamese kings RAMA
Peter and Alexander, notably TSARS
Pitched in for a hand ANTED
Point of view STANCE
Pollster Elmo ROPER
Priggish SMUG
Pull with perspiration? LUG
Reduce drastically, as prices SLASH
Relic, e.g. ATHINGOFTHEPAST
Rhodamine and eosin, for two DYES
Sackcloth material HEMP
Seventh Greek letter ETA
Show instability TEETER
Some male demons INCUBI
Stair step part RISER
Start of a master plan, perhaps PHASEI
Studier of the Upanishads HINDU
Superenergetic one DYNAMO
Swerves, at sea YAWS
Take in REAP
Time scale section ERA
Trooper start PARA
Type of witness STAR
U.S. Treasury agent TMAN
Ungovernable INDOCILE
Untold centuries EONS
What many do in church PRAY
What women do at the mall, stereotypically SHOESHOP
Where many are relieved in London? LOOS
Word after a faux pas, perhaps OOPS
Word in a Little Richard song title TUTTI