USA Today - Oct 9 2009

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Clues Answers
Agreeable sort YESMAN
Airline pilot's record LOG
Any will do in a storm PORT
Attack with vigor ASSAIL
Biographical opener? AUTO
Blender button PUREE
Brewery device OAST
Briquettes, after the barbecue ASHES
Buggy driver's control REIN
Bulgarian capital SOFIA
Business giant MOGUL
Calendar abbr. SEPT
Catchall category (Abbr.) MISC
Ceremonial practice RITE
Drags through the mud SMEARS
End of a threat ELSE
Ex-athlete's ailment, perhaps TRICKKNEE
Famous diet doctor ATKINS
Fine Peruvian wool source LLAMA
Florists' cuttings STEMS
Football foul indicator FLAG
Full moon, to some OMEN
Halloween mo. OCT
Impressions DENTS
In a competent manner APTLY
It conceals a light bulb LAMPSHADE
It may be measured in bushels YIELD
It's a kick PUNT
It's picked up in an alley SPARE
It's sometimes required for service SHIRT
Like some prose PURPLE
Look after, as a fire TEND
Lyrical verse ODE
Making the cut SAWING
Mathematical comparison RATIO
Mean moods SNITS
Meet the need AVAIL
Military deterrent SHOWOFFORCE
Mob heavies GOONS
Clues Answers
Moran of "Happy Days" ERIN
Move sideways SIDLE
Not at peace UNEASY
Number of hills of Rome, to Caesar VII
Obvious observation TRUISM
One residing on the frontier MOUNTAINMAN
One way to go to a party STAG
Part of the church APSE
Paycheck fig., often HRS
Period beginning on Ash Wednesday LENT
Pressing result CREASES
Rack up higher cell phone charges ROAM
Remote-controlled plane DRONE
Rose oil ATTAR
Rouses AWAKES
Russian physiologist Pavlov IVAN
Sax sort ALTO
Some add it to the fire FUEL
Some prayer leaders IMAMS
Some work on it SPEC
Sound system of yesteryear HIFI
South African corral KRAAL
Spread out FANNED
Stare with a lax jaw GAPE
Streamlet RILL
Tell it to the judge PLEAD
They get slapped around PUCKS
Transmission ending OVER
Truncation abbr. ETC
Turgenev museum site OREL
Type of reform or state WELFARE
Unfriendly expression SNEER
Unit of heredity GENE
Western postwar alliance NATO
Word for the calorie-conscious LITE
Word used when adding? ALSO
Zero-wheeled vehicle SLED
___ by (allow to pass) LET
___ Day & the Knights OTIS