Universal September 23 2003 crossword clues & answers

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Universal Sep 23 2003

Clue	Answer
"American Idol" winner	RUBEN
"God's Little ___"	ACRE
"I do," e.g.	OATH
"Murder, ___ Wrote"	SHE
"When I Was ___" ("H.M.S. Pinafore" song)	ALAD
"Who am ___ argue?"	ITO
"Who ___ kidding?"	AMI
''Critique of Pure Reason'' philosopher	KANT
''___ the crack of ...''	UPAT
... the beginning of a gridiron scheme?	INFORMATION
... the beginning of a spy?	INOPERATIVE
... the beginning of college costs?	INTUITION
... the beginning of fairness?	INJUSTICE
2000 also-ran	GORE
A ''natural'' dice toss	SEVEN
Actor activator	CUE
Added to the staff	HIRED
Alternative to "smoking"	NON
American chameleon	ANOLE
Ancient seaport of Phoenicia	TYRE
Angel's trademark	HALO
Annex	ADD
Apportion	ALLOT
Attorney's helper	PARALEGAL
Away from the wind	ALEE
Bad thing to bear	GRUDGE
Badger	TEASE
Be an omen of	AUGUR
Bear greeting?	HUG
Beatles meter maid of song	RITA
Bela contemporary	LON
Beldames	HAGS
Belle of the ball	DEBUTANTE
Bestows upon	CONFERS
Better half	HELPMATE
Blue-green	TEAL
Borrowed without permission	TOOK
Brass member	TUBA
Brazilian hot spot	RIO
Break bread	EAT
Bridge positions	EASTS
Brightest star in Virgo	SPICA
Brilliant feats	COUPS
Build a new room	ADDON
Business name abbr.	CORP
Chance occurrences	HAPS
Chill	ICE
Chinese philosopher	LAOTSE
Clueless	LOST
Coal stratum	SEAM
Comes to the rescue	AIDS
Concerts held in arenas?	INDOORJAMBS
Conclude with	ENDON
Consume or enjoy immensely	EATUP
Convertible cover	SOFTTOP
Cookies with a white filling	OREOS
Cornfield call	CAW
CPA functions	AUDITS
Crescent-shaped area on a fingernail	LUNULE
Crucifix	ROOD
Currently in progress	AFOOT
Customary practice	USAGE
De Mille specialties	EPICS
Deer's scut	TAIL
Diamondback turtle	TERRAPIN
Did some picking	OPTED
Discontinue, as a project	SCRAP
Distribute	METE
Diva Gluck	ALMA
DNA structure	HELIX
Doha is its capital	QATAR
Down Under bird	EMU
Edible green seed	PEA
Edible tuber	TARO
Edict	FIAT
Electrician, at times	WIRER
Empty shipping container weights	TARES
English stage actor James	QUIN
Every relative?	EACH
Extended (out)	JUTTED
Fastened, in a way	GLUED
Fermented beverages	ALES
Fertile soil	LOAM
Fettuccine and lasagna	PASTAS
Flightless fowl	EMU
Folk singer Guthrie	ARLO
Football infraction	CLIP
Former European coin	DUCAT
Geologic time division (Var.)	NEOCENE
Give a darn	CARE
Glossiness	SHEEN
Glows like coals	SMOLDERS
Go partner	TOUCH
Gossipy tidbit	ITEM
Gremlin's creator	AMC
Had under surveillance	SPIEDON
He told the story of Rudolph	IVES
Hemmed but didn't haw	SEWED
Hibernation locales	LAIRS
Highest point	APEX
Hispaniola country	HAITI
Hit the lanes	BOWL
Hold protectively	CRADLE
Ideology	CREDO
Idiotically wrong	ALLWET
II	TWO
Indian dignitary	RAJA
Indicator of a maiden name	NEE
Ingredient in mead	HONEY
It can be for the course	PAR
It may be essential	OIL
It may be silly	GRIN
It may have a silver lining	ORE
It's for good measure	RULER
Italian coin no longer minted	LIRA
Juice drink suffix	ADE
Jungle sound	ROAR
Keen on	INTO
Kind of school	PREP
King and Hale Sr.	ALANS
LAPD advisory	APB
Lathered (up)	SOAPED
Lightning unit	BOLT
Like a barrel of monkeys	FUN
Like a span of oxen	TEAMED
Like arson evidence	ASHY
Like diehard fans	AVID
Like some grapes	SOUR
Lincoln's concern	UNION
Louisiana cuisine	CAJUN
Low-heeled shoe	BROGUE
Make a photoengraving	ETCH
Many of that	THOSE
Map abbreviation	RTE
Maracana Stadium locale	RIO
Merit	EARN
Mode preceder	ALA
Monica of tennis	SELES
Most indisputable	SUREST
Moth-repelling wood	CEDAR
Neutral middle vowel	SCHWA
Newbie	GREENHORN
Nile city	CAIRO
Not quite summa	MAGNA
Novice Boy Scout	TENDERFOOT
Obviously in awe	AGAPE
Occurred to (with ''on'')	DAWNED
Off in the distance	AFAR
Olfactory perception	ODOR
On the double, poetically	APACE
On ___ with (equal to)	APAR
One on a staff	NOTE
One thickness	PLY
Order in the court	WRIT
Oroville and Coulee	DAMS
Ostracized person	LEPER
Panoramic sight	VIEW
Part of FWIW	ITS
Peake novel "Titus ___"	ALONE
Place of safety	HAVEN
Place to get stuck	RUT
Pleasantly pleasing	NICE
Poem originally intended to be sung	ODE
Practice with a palooka	SPAR
Prentiss or Abdul	PAULA
Preserved, in a way	CANNED
Process a bite	CHEW
Promotion basis	MERIT
Put in stitches	SEWED
Rated G, so to speak	CLEAN
React to an uppercut, perhaps	REEL
Ready to play again	RESTED
Region	AREA
Rejected	SCORNED
Relative of "Zounds!"	EGAD
Remove stubble	SHAVE
Repaired a paper tear, perhaps	TAPED
Roof overhang	EAVE
Royal topper	TIARA
Saguaro, e.g.	CACTUS
Savory jelly	ASPIC
Scoff or boo	JEER
Scruffs	NAPES
Sheds feathers	MOLTS
Shot target	FLU
Show anger toward, in a way	SHOUTAT
Smidgen	IOTA
Smooth-talking	GLIB
Social Security?	INCOMEOFAGE
Some combatants	WRESTLERS
Sorority sisters	COEDS
Sought help from	TURNEDTO
Spring forward time	APRIL
Starling's agency	FBI
Starr-struck instrument?	DRUM
Sting a customer	SOAK
Street's boss	MASON
Strike zone's lower boundary	KNEES
Stumble while running the bases?	INFIELDTRIP
Sugar bowl team?	ANTS
Sun blockers	CLOUDS
Superior rating	AONE
Surfer's gadget	MODEM
Swing and Christian	ERAS
Tag pursuers	ITS
That's a wrap	SARAN
The "U" of BTU	UNIT
They're unassisted	SOLOS
Third degree, usually	PHD
Throbbed	ACHED
Title role for Jodie Foster	NELL
Trainee	APPRENTICE
Tuck's title	FRIAR
Tuning fork's output	TONE
Type of rubber	FOAM
Understands, as a joke	GETS
Unwitting accomplice	PAWN
Upper part of glaciers	NEVES
Vardalos of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"	NIA
Variable star	NOVA
Victor at Fredericksburg	LEE
Von Bismarck	OTTO
Wading birds	STORKS
Wear away, as earth	ERODE
What's done is this	PAST
When Hamlet pretends to go mad	ACTII
Where drives begin	TEE
Where to learn how to tolerate your spouse's parents?	INLAWSCHOOL
Whitman the poet	WALT
Whoop-de-do	FANFARE
Without a connection	APART
Without moisture	SERE
Word with 5, 10, 25 and 50	CENTS
Your largest joint	KNEE

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