USA Today - Sep 22 2008

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Clues Answers
''Batman'' word ZAP
''Chill out!'' COOLIT
''I'm all ears!'' DOTELL
''My Friend Flicka'' author OHARA
''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' robot GORT
''Wiggle'' or ''weight'' follower ROOM
''___ kleine Nachtmusik'' EINE
''___ porridge hot . . .'' PEASE
1961 space chimp ENOS
Added pizzazz to, as with herbs SPICED
Andean tuber OCA
Being, in old Rome ESSE
Brown alternative, briefly PENN
Catnaps SNOOZES
Certain radio personality SHOCKJOCK
Coal stratum SEAM
Commotions ADOS
Controversial subject POLITICS
Critical LIFEANDDEATH
Efficiency symbol, in physics ETA
Elephant grp. GOP
Fairy tale figure GNOME
Farrier's tool RASP
Garden sticker THORN
God with raven messengers ODIN
Grapefruit cousin UGLI
Hardly a slacker DOER
Hay storage locale LOFT
In precisely this way JUSTSO
It may require a password ACCESS
Jail weapon SHIV
Java neighbor BALI
Kentucky Derby potable JULEP
Life of ___ (carefree existence) RILEY
Like almost immediately TAKETO
Load from a lode ORE
Mill fodder GRIST
Muslim prayer leader IMAM
Nabisco favorite OREO
Clues Answers
Nautical direction ALEE
Noah's landfall ARARAT
Officer Dibble's nemesis TOPCAT
Old MacDonald letters EIEIO
One of the Beverly Hillbillies JED
Passed with flying colors ACED
Picnic staples SODAS
Place in a Poe title PIT
Pollen producer STAMEN
Postgame activity RECAP
Prefix with ''china'' INDO
Promo overkill HYPE
Provide an upper surface for CEIL
Qualifying races HEATS
Resort near Snowbird ALTA
River from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi OHIO
Ruby or garnet GEM
She loved Narcissus ECHO
Singer at Diana's funeral ELTON
Sinner's punishment, in the Bible HELLFIRE
Small candy GUMDROP
Some are green TEAS
Some are jam-packed JARS
Soprano Gluck ALMA
SpongeBob features PORES
Stop running (with ''out'') CONK
Swelled-head source EGO
Tenderheart, Grumpy and Bedtime CAREBEARS
The ''T'' in BLT TOMATO
They can be connected DOTS
TV Chihuahua REN
Type of mail FAN
Unfit for farming, in a way ARID
Versatile vehicle JEEP
Waiting in the wings, so to speak ONTAP
Warning, perhaps WORDOFADVICE
Words shouted with a raised hand MEME
Worker in a noted workshop ELF
Zesty potful STEW