USA Today - Aug 14 2012

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Clues Answers
"Call of Duty: Black ___" OPS
"Check that out!" OOH
"Dick Tracy" gal TESS
1990s Toyota coupe PASEO
Abdominal protrusion HERNIA
Adjusts a piano TUNES
Affirmatives YESES
Almond cookie MACAROON
Ambulance initials EMS
Andrea Bocelli, for one TENOR
Beat a hasty retreat FLEE
Between half and all MOST
Big name in spreadsheets EXCEL
Black, in poetic circles EBON
Bon ___ (clever remark) MOT
Break in friendly relations RIFT
Burden or responsibility ONUS
Casting director's offering ROLE
Comfortable place to sit SOFA
Completely inoperative KAPUT
Computer fodder DATA
Cool one's heels WAIT
Cream-of-the-crop AONE
Dancer Falana LOLA
Deceptive ploys RUSES
Declare untrue DENY
Drain of energy ENERVATE
Drew even with TIED
Editor's change of heart STET
Facts and figures, for short INFO
Fed. property manager GSA
Folk singer Seeger PETE
Former hotelier Helmsley LEONA
Former Turkish dignitary PASHA
Gems mined mostly in Australia OPALS
Gesturing performer MIME
Get under one's skin NETTLE
Great number SLEW
In the fashion of ALA
Clues Answers
Letters on a tombstone RIP
Like some curiosity or fascinations MORBID
Like some magazine perfume ads SCRATCHANDSNIFF
MacLachlan, Chandler and Petty KYLES
Nero's earth TERRA
Off one's rocker DAFT
Oil-bearing rock SHALE
Oinker's pen STY
One who takes action DOER
One-and-a-half turns in the air AXEL
Operate properly WORK
Pacific Rim region ASIA
Partner of gloom DOOM
Patience, for one VIRTUE
Pinball error TILT
Pitching stat ERA
Port for sailors? LEFT
Prosperous period BOOM
Respond angrily BITEONESHEADOFF
Scandinavian capital OSLO
Slimy substance GOO
Some police setups STINGOPERATIONS
Spoke to base desires PANDERED
Take again, as vows RENEW
The "U" in ICU UNIT
They're meaningful to the superstitious OMENS
Took the wrong way? STOLE
Tries to find out ASKS
Twists together ENTWINES
Unexpected impediment SNAG
Unsightly eye problem STYE
Use a keyboard TYPE
Vigorous spirit ELAN
Wander (about) GAD
Wine city of Italy ASTI
Withdraw, as from a habit WEAN
Word used in logic ERGO
Write down the wrong answer, e.g ERR
___ date (makes wedding plans) SETSA