Universal - Aug 23 2006

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Clues Answers
''Fanny'' novelist Jong ERICA
''Laverne & Shirley'' character Babish EDNA
''West Side Story'' faction GANG
A Gershwin IRA
A ___ pittance MERE
Add color to TINT
Animal similar to the ostrich RHEA
Archaic verb ending ETH
Beginning of a magician's incantation ABRA
Black, in verse EBON
Book after Joel AMOS
Buck ending? AROO
Buddhist leader LAMA
Capital of White Russia MINSK
Chow ___ (Chinese-style dish) MEIN
Co. in a major 2000 merger AOL
Corpulent OBESE
Cover charge, for example FEE
Drug pusher's enemy NARC
Eye annoyance STYE
Giants legend Mel and family OTTS
Green-eyed monster ENVY
Hardly ever ONCEINABLUEMOON
Harley competitor YAMAHA
Help for the puzzled HINT
Human resources person, at times HIRER
In a dumb manner STUPIDLY
In may be casual in some places FRIDAY
Insolence SASS
It may be about a foot SHOE
It may be square ROOT
It may be worn to breakfast ROBE
It may lead to a strike LANE
It may zoom LENS
It's linked to mighty HIGH
Jazz great Brubeck DAVE
Lewis or Belafonte SHARI
Like a neglected garden WEEDY
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Literary twist IRONY
Luncheon follow-up? ETTE
Madame Bovary EMMA
Mardi ___ GRAS
Material for some driveways GRAVEL
Mayberry name ANDY
More than popular REDHOT
Northern Hemisphere bird WREN
Opposite of endo ECTO
Optimist's statement THESKYSTHELIMIT
Optimistic statement (with 42-Across) EVERYCLOUDHAS
Part of a Beatles refrain YEAH
Parts of an hr. MINS
Prefix meaning ''trillion'' TERA
Prime-time time EIGHT
Quixotic WILDEYED
Rainbow shape ARCH
Safari jacket feature BELT
Saucy dances SALSAS
See 25-Across ASILVERLINING
Semicircle, e.g. ARC
Shannon's home ERIN
Signs of comprehension AHS
Slanted, as type ITALIC
Social stratum CASTE
Steinway output PIANOS
Storied boy with silver skates HANS
Suffixes with ballad and chariot EERS
Tack, nautically VEER
The Bard's witch HAG
Tinctured HUED
Type of car or nurse STAFF
Type of soda DIET
Ugandan despot AMIN
Victuals EATS
Word with soft or table WARE
Words intended to intimidate ORELSE
___-fi SCI