USA Today - Dec 19 2008

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Clues Answers
''Dancing with the Stars'' athlete SAPP
''W.'' director STONE
1962 Mitchum/MacLaine film TWOFORTHESEESAW
Am-early connector ITOO
Animated pooch ASTRO
Apple for the teacher or the student IMAC
Beetles, for example VWS
Beginning to trust? ANTI
Berlin bride FRAU
Big showcase EXPO
Birdbrain LOON
Blow a gasket RANT
Bridge capacity unit TON
Carpet fiber ISTLE
Chesapeake crustacean CRAB
Chorus girl ALTO
Christine of ''Swing Shift'' LAHTI
Circular band HOOP
Cutting place EDGE
Dandelion, usually WEED
Dick, to Ike VEEP
Dirty money source? ORE
Draft choices? OXEN
Drops the curtain on ENDS
Effort's reward, in school ANA
Elaborate tapestry ARRAS
Emulated a lumberjack HEWED
Establish a link with TIEINTO
Fashionable initials YSL
Fashionable tag LABEL
Fine fiddle AMATI
First schizophrenic problem? THREEFACESOFEVE
Garlic bulb segment CLOVE
Gas brand that sounds like two letters ESSO
Greek theater ODEON
Guardian in ''It's a Wonderful Life'' ANGEL
It can be calculated after a survey AREA
Kid's parent GOAT
Landon and a TV alien ALFS
Clues Answers
Last name in cruelty SADE
Last of three X's TOE
Leather puncher AWL
Look in awe GAPE
Luxurious activity BATH
Major sch. events SATS
Mechanical learning ROTE
Miner's find SEAM
Myrna Loy role in ''The Thin Man'' NORA
Neither hot nor cold TEPID
Not on horseback AFOOT
Page for columnists OPED
Party leftover EMPTY
Political columnist Joseph ALSOP
Prefix with ''arthritis'' OSTEO
Senior member DEAN
Sharpen 1-Across HONE
Shinbone TIBIA
Shore time for a sailor LEAVE
Sign language for walkers? PED
Socially smooth SUAVE
Some pitches at baseball stadiums ADS
Some precipitation RAINFALL
Something to stick with GLUE
Spring occurrence THAW
Stage light covering GEL
Stiff hairs or bristles SETAE
Tarboosh topper TASSEL
The gods' favorite Ava Gardner film? ONETOUCHOFVENUS
Thermoslike flask DEWAR
They give you fits TAILORS
Tough wood ASH
Toward the rear AFT
Ulan ___ BATOR
United expenses AIRFARES
Wasp's nest site, perhaps EAVE
Without equal TOPS
___ Lodge ECONO
___ rasa TABULA