USA Today - Mar 6 2009

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Clues Answers
''I'll take that as ___'' ANO
''Make it snappy!'' ASAP
''___ to the Cuckoo'' ODE
1960s Jaguar model XKE
6-Down, at times VAULTER
A national Parks ROSA
Abbr. for co-conspirators? ETAL
Absent without permission TRUANT
Accepted member INSIDER
Alternate passage, in a score OSSIA
Anne Frank, for one DIARIST
Aus. neighbor GER
Award-winning EMINENT
Beat walker COP
Big-time candy maker BRACHS
Bound gaily SKIP
Boundaries EDGES
Brand attachment with ''Sun'' and ''Star'' KIST
Caulk, for example SEALANT
Certain nitrogen compounds AMINES
Chef's gadget DICER
Cigarette package (Abbr.) CTN
Clarice Starling, e.g. HEROINE
Comes up with plans IDEATES
Contaminate TAINT
Cows and giraffes RUMINANTS
Develop gradually GESTATE
Dirty dog SCOUNDREL
Disinters EXHUMES
Earthbound layer CHICKEN
Figures at a gangland summit DONS
Fill the lungs INHALE
Fish eggs ROE
Fuss ADO
Grind ROUTINE
Headdress CHAPEAU
Heave a sigh SUSPIRE
Hindu honorifics SRIS
Humorist Bombeck ERMA
Clues Answers
In the manner of ALA
Irving character RIP
It's intended to help one play better ETUDE
John Deere competitor TORO
Keep back DETAIN
Largest human bone FEMUR
Obtain a return REAP
One place for a nap COT
One who divines the future PROPHET
Pasta sauce first sold in 1937 RAGU
Penalties for offenses FINES
Perfidious person TRAITOR
Perpetually EVER
Piece of PC software APP
Prefix meaning ''outer'' EXO
Pro ___ (for now) TEM
Pure Prairie League hit AMIE
Quietly composed SERENE
Quiver from revulsion SHUDDER
Range EXTENT
Regret RUE
Repeated words or syllables MANTRAS
Retton's best scores TENS
Secure, as a flag FURL
Semiaquatic salamanders EFTS
Set of steps by a fence STILE
Some bears BRUINS
Some NFLers RTS
Southeastern European plains STEPPES
Spidey's creator STAN
State of misfortune NEED
Surreptitious attention-getter PSST
Teach privately TUTOR
The end of Japan? ESE
Tightly knit group CADRE
Vertical line on a musical note STEM
Way of Laotzu TAO
Wind down or wind up END
___ wing and a prayer ONA