USA Today - Jun 27 2008

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Clues Answers
''___ boy!'' (''Nice going!'') ATTA
''___ man with seven . . .'' IMETA
A 5-Across without a tail MANX
ABC show (with ''The'') MOLE
After-shoveling feeling ACHE
All, to start with OMNI
All-inclusive expression ATOZ
An emoticon's eyes COLON
Arboreal abode NEST
Assure the accuracy of RECHECK
Beethoven symphony EROICA
Ben-Hur, for a time SLAVE
Black cuckoos ANIS
Bolshevism founder LENIN
Command from the king EDICT
Commencement ONSET
Compete VIE
Darned SEWN
Days of eld YORE
Deserts at work? SOMETHINGEARNED
Desktop picture ICON
Dog healer, briefly VET
Editor's station DESK
Elvis' middle name ARON
Engineers' sch. MIT
Exit one's cocoon EMERGE
Fabrication STORY
Fast-moving film genre ACTION
Fork over REMIT
Giraffe's feature NECK
Goal at some cattle calls APART
Golden Calf, e.g. IDOL
Gumshoe, slangily TEC
Hearts, but not spades ORGANS
Iditarod's finish NOME
Idle of ''Spamalot'' ERIC
Israel's Abba EBAN
It's played by a blowhard TUBA
Clues Answers
Kind of nerve OPTIC
Language family including Ute and Shoshone NUMIC
Like some of these clues WITTY
Lions, panthers and jaguars, e.g. CATS
Made a tea cozy KNITTED
Measurement across WIDTH
Mi madre's brother TIO
Mulligan's meal? STEW
Native New Mexican ZUNI
Not seriously burn SINGE
Number of teeth? SHOTOFNOVOCAINE
Orch. section STR
Ornamental spiral HELIX
Pageant wear SASH
Persuade COAX
Place for grandma's trunk ATTIC
Political ammunition? MUD
Prefix with ''sweet'' SEMI
Rays batter? RADIATIONSHIELD
Resign, after consulting with a lawyer? EXTENDACONTRACT
Revered expert GURU
Ron Howard, before he was Richie OPIE
Serve drinks, perhaps TEND
Sign on some doors NOEXIT
Soprano Te Kanawa KIRI
Subject to bad spells HEXED
Tatum's dad RYAN
Teen follower AGER
The Huxtable boy THEO
Tigger's friend ROO
Too ALSO
Toward the mouth ORAD
Undergo decomposition ROT
Use of a company jet, e.g. PERK
Wear down, as confidence ERODE
You might put some money in it, briefly IRA
Zilch NONE
___ thousands (many extras) CASTOF