USA Today - Dec 6 2006

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Clues Answers
''. . . card-carrying member of the ___'' ACLU
''Did my best'' ITRIED
''Goodbye, Columbus'' author ROTH
''Star Wars'' warrior JEDI
1945 conference site YALTA
A demonstrated position? ANTI
Actress Skye IONE
Allowing a peek, in a way AJAR
Ambient music composer Brian ENO
Balaam's beast ASS
Bit of a blossom PETAL
Brief item of passing interest OBIT
Change the color of DYE
Chilling ONICE
Christmas saint NICK
City of eastern Nebraska OMAHA
Club in a Manilow song COPA
Conversation piece? PHONE
Daughter of Hägar the Horrible HONI
Den item, often SOFA
Done to death OLD
E-mail option REPLY
Early Eurasian leaders CZARS
End of an Ali quip ABEE
Explorer Sir Francis DRAKE
Exudes OOZES
First name in fragrances COCO
Football game division HALF
Forth ONWARD
Gender-specific word HIM
Good fortune near South Bend? LUCKOFTHEIRISH
Hardly glitzy DRAB
Hip hippie phrase IDIG
Humiliate DEMEAN
Important date USEBY
Impressionists, e.g. APERS
Impulse carriers AXONS
Invites answers ASKS
Jacob's first wife LEAH
Clues Answers
Leaping SALTANT
Lectern platform DAIS
Make a long story short? EDIT
Meant to be heard ALOUD
Meets, as a challenge RISESTO
Mexican moola PESO
NASCAR stat MPH
Neeson of film LIAM
Nelson, for one HOLD
Omani money RIAL
One of 29-Down NESS
Open FRANK
Party food item, perhaps FINGERSANDWICH
Pay stub fig. FICA
PC core CPU
Pen name BIC
Playground retort ISTOO
Ran out of patience, e.g. HADIT
Referenced CITED
Resort lake TAHOE
Revelations nation MAGOG
Scottish inlets LOCHS
Ship of fuels? OILER
Sonnet, e.g. VERSE
Stick nick NOTCH
Supreme finale EST
Sweet treat GODIVACHOCOLATE
Tan slacks KHAKIS
The Piltdown man, e.g. HOAX
They come in blueberry and chocolate chip EGGOS
Underhanded SLY
Understand GET
Whaleboat captain of fiction AHAB
With defects and all ASIS
Word with ''deep'' or ''stir'' FRY
Words from the committed IDOS
Wrecked ship HULK
Xerox competitor RICOH
Young newts EFTS