Newsday.com - Oct 16 2006

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Clues Answers
''This story's getting interesting!'' THEPLOTTHICKENS
''Tonight Show'' host LENO
'70s sound system STEREO
1990s vice president GORE
Airport support staff GROUNDCREW
Allow for, with ''in'' FACTOR
Apple center CORE
Aruba or Jamaica ISLE
Back of the neck NAPE
Banana covering PEEL
Barnyard cackler HEN
Baseball position RIGHTFIELD
Beagles and bunnies PETS
Build, as a skyscraper ERECT
California wine center NAPA
Cicely of ''Roots'' TYSON
Coagulates CLOTS
Composer Stravinsky IGOR
Concerned with INTO
Data-disk letters CDROM
Don't include OMIT
Droop SAG
DVD recorder ancestor VCR
Emulates Etna ERUPTS
Experiments TESTS
Get-up-and-go PEP
Good __ (no matter what) ORBAD
Gravy annoyance LUMP
Healing plant ALOE
Infant's rages TANTRUMS
Itinerary ROUTE
Jai __ ALAI
Jump LEAP
Keogh alternatives IRAS
Knitter's material YARN
Like dogs being walked ONALEASH
Make a sketch of DRAW
Massages RUBS
Mezzo-soprano's gig OPERA
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Moderate running pace TROT
More clearheaded SANER
More crafty SLIER
Musical postscript CODA
Not very specific VAGUE
Obliterate ERASE
Of monumental proportions EPIC
Old-time anesthetic ETHER
Overly eager AGOG
Painter Salvador DALI
Pay attention LISTEN
Perch for a 43 Across ROOST
Private __ (detectives) EYES
Pub missile DART
Purchase price COST
Radiate out EMIT
Rain hard POUR
Rambunctious ROWDY
Retired fast planes: Abbr. SSTS
Revolution rider Revere PAUL
Russian's refusal NYET
Scatterbrained DITSY
Sched. stats ETAS
Settle, as a bill PAY
Shade of purple INDIGO
Something prohibited NONO
Sports palace ARENA
Stares at OGLES
Steps between two floors STAIRS
Supreme Court justice __ Bader Ginsburg RUTH
Sushi-bar selections EELS
Taking a breather ATREST
Texas city ELPASO
Tie the knot WED
Untidiness MESS
Very important KEY
Very much ALOT
Wood-turning machine LATHE
__ room (place to play) REC