Newsday.com - Sep 17 2006

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Clues Answers
''Lilies of the Field'' characters NUNS
''Long Day's Journey __ Night'' INTO
''Straight'' starter ORTHO
'60s exclamation OHWOW
A person's ONES
A thing's ITS
A whole bunch LOTS
Africa's largest city CAIRO
Agatha Christie title DAME
Alex Haley best-seller ROOTS
Allowing no middle ground BLACKORWHITE
Aloft INTHEAIR
American Legion members VETS
Approximately GIVEORTAKE
Aquarium fish TETRA
Archie Bunker portrayer OCONNOR
Attendees GOERS
Australian birds EMUS
Availability extremes FEASTORFAMINE
Aviator Earhart AMELIA
Baltimore daily SUN
Barracks beds COTS
Batting ploys BUNTS
Becomes less friendly COOLS
Beer holder STEIN
Blacksmith, often SHOER
Bohemian folk song POLKA
British philosopher LOCKE
Brownie, e.g. GIRL
Buck of country music OWENS
Bumpy ride for the economy BOOMORBUST
Cancun cash PESOS
Car starter of yore CRANK
Climb SCALE
Column order IONIC
Comic Carvey DANA
Comic Kovacs ERNIE
Condition STATE
Creole seafood SHRIMP
Critical for success MAKEORBREAK
Engine part ROTOR
Enticement BAIT
Entryways DOORS
Eventually SOONERORLATER
Family nickname DAD
Featherbrain BOZO
Feel sore ACHE
Feel the presence of SENSE
Fencing weapon EPEE
Finds understandable SEES
Firms, for short COS
Five-spots FINS
Floors it RACES
Floral garland LEI
Gather in REAP
German article DAS
Golf matchups TWOSOMES
Graduate-school exams ORALS
Grand Canyon beast BURRO
Gym pads MATS
High ground RIDGE
Hindu garments SARIS
Homes for hay BARNS
Horse and buggy RIG
Hosp. area ICU
Hot spot OVEN
Incite GOAD
Inflict, as havoc WREAK
Internet diary BLOG
Invitation letters RSVP
Jam-packed DENSE
James Joyce title character FINNEGAN
Kicks out BOOTS
Clues Answers
Kin of contra- ANTI
Knock down DECK
Known by few ESOTERIC
Large quantities SEAS
Like canning candidates STORABLE
Litigant SUER
Long, long time EON
Lucie Arnaz's dad DESI
Male deer STAGS
Misplaces LOSES
Mr. Kringle KRIS
Mr. T's former group ATEAM
Needing to sit FOOTSORE
None of the above OTHER
Not around OUT
Obi-Wan Kenobi, for one JEDI
Off the ship ASHORE
Old ''you'' THOU
One in charge BOSS
Orchestration lines OBOES
Organic compound ESTER
Painter's pigment OCHER
Persia, today IRAN
Pesto ingredient BASIL
Played host TREATED
Plumb __ LOCO
Poetic Muse ERATO
Poke fun at TEASE
Printer's aides INKERS
Rainwear SLICKER
Related AKIN
River deposit SILT
Rocky pinnacle TOR
Roll-call response HERE
Scored 100 on ACED
Scoundrel SOANDSO
Seep OOZE
Send back to a lower court REMAND
Shrinks from SHUNS
Slugger's stat RBI
Small songbird WREN
Sorority members COEDS
Spaghetti-western director LEONE
Square up SETTLE
Starchy side dishes PASTAS
Superlative suffix EST
Supermodel from Africa IMAN
Tells off CHIDES
Thought (to be) DEEMED
Thread material LISLE
To the point LACONIC
Toss caller's choices HEADSORTAILS
Touch up EMEND
Tour of duty STINT
Travel agent, at times BOOKER
Truck compartment CAB
Trump, at times SPADES
USO visitors GIS
Varnish source SUMAC
Victor's shout IWON
Walked confidently STRODE
Walked on TROD
Weeps audibly SOBS
Were in accord JIBED
Whatever the weather RAINORSHINE
Where Ft. Riley is KANS
Winter warmer SCARF
Woolless, as sheep SHORN
Word form for ''sun'' HELIO
Work force STAFF
Writer Kesey KEN
__ Baba ALI
__ de plume NOM