USA Today - Jun 18 2012

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Clues Answers
"Atlas Shrugged" hero GALT
"Foundation" author Asimov ISAAC
"Maria ___" (Jimmy Dorsey hit) ELENA
"Portlandia" funnyman Armisen FRED
"The Wizard of Oz" coward LION
18-wheelers RIGS
1961, for Barack Obama (Abbr.) YOB
A knob found on a battery ANODE
All-around athlete Thorpe JIM
An awful smell ODOR
Bartlett entry QUOTE
Beat painfully THROB
Before this time, in poetry ERENOW
Bizarre in the extreme ODDEST
Blackest part of a shadow UMBRA
Blarney Stone land EIRE
Blood classification system ABO
Bluish-green shade AQUA
Bombastic speaker ORATOR
Casual wear DENIMS
Checkout counter count ITEMS
Clad like a judge ROBED
Clam-digging locale SHORE
Creature in a wool coat EWE
Crime in the game Clue MURDER
Derrière TUSH
Dreadlocked Jamaican, for short RASTA
Ear of Indian corn MEALIE
Feds' document producer GPO
Forensic science tool DNA
Formal accessory TIE
Former name of Tokyo EDO
Get ___ of (throw out) RID
Gymnast's surface MAT
Happen as expected PANOUT
Held for a time HAD
In fine fettle HALE
It may help one get away with 50-Down ALIBI
Keebler treat VANILLAWAFER
Clues Answers
Learning by flash cards, e.g ROTE
Lose a lap RISE
Lower electrical capability DERATE
Milky Way, for one CHOCOLATEBAR
Nasal partitions SEPTA
No more than a smidgen IOTA
Old crowned head TSAR
One being exploited USEE
Oscar, e.g AWARD
Paris tube METRO
Pastoral poem IDYLL
Plumb crazy LOCO
Pond scum ALGA
Popeye or Sinbad SAILOR
Prefix with "China" INDO
Prevent, as danger AVERT
Prey for a cat RAT
Prison, in slang SLAMMER
Prospector's bonanza LODE
Psychology 101 topic EGO
Put into operation USE
Puzzling question RIDDLE
Recharge one's batteries REST
Reinforced work boot feature TOECAP
Small bit of work ERG
Social class CASTE
Source for some jam makers STRAWBERRYPATCH
Sticker spots BUMPERS
Stu of old TV ERWIN
Surname in a Janis Joplin title MCGEE
The final word in storybooks END
Two make a diameter RADII
Type of shrimp JUMBO
Uncool collegian NERD
Urban area needing renewal GHETTO
Von Bismarck or Klemperer OTTO
Word with "parking" or "odd" LOT
Yawning chasm (var.) ABYSM
___ League (Middle Eastern group) ARAB