USA Today - Mar 9 2009

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Clues Answers
''Baseball Tonight'' network ESPN
''I ran out of gas,'' e.g. ALIBI
''Iliad'' warrior ARES
''We're off ___ the Wizard'' TOSEE
A carol's first word ADESTE
A little bull LIE
Abattoir waste OFFAL
According to PER
Afternoon activities NAPS
Awards org. based in Nashville CMA
Badlands Natl. Park locale SDAK
Be a good Samaritan to AID
Blockheads OAFS
Boxing great, or her father ALI
Brawl FISTICUFFS
Cattails and the like REEDS
Cause to crack CHAP
Change one's act? AMEND
Choirmaster's announcement KEY
Chow line? ARF
CIA relative NSA
Conceal HIDE
Devote, as time SPEND
Doggie bag scrap ORT
Dumas motto word ALL
Early morning time FOURAM
Eau surrounding Martinique MER
Ed.'s inbox filler MSS
English exam, often ESSAY
Fill-in TEMP
Flexible mineral MICA
Forgo a prepared speech ADLIB
Gift given upon some deplanings LEI
Give in to pressure KNUCKLEUNDER
Grp. with eligibility requirements NCAA
Isn't misused? AINT
Italian seaport NAPLES
Jabba, for one HUTT
L.A. suburb ENCINO
Clues Answers
Late-night pioneer PAAR
Like some goodbyes TEARY
Lookouts, e.g. ABETTORS
Mint COIN
Much may go on behind them SCENES
Nobelist Bohr NIELS
Org. with many guards NBA
Pizza paddle PEEL
Popular fishing spots PIERS
Proscriptions DONTS
Puts on the calendar SCHEDULES
Rhine tributary (Var.) AAR
Roman god of revelry COMUS
Scan THUMBTHROUGH
Scouts take them OATHS
Sea bird or Irish river ERNE
Sealy competitor SERTA
Shipping cushion, perhaps FOAM
Some like it hot CEREAL
Song and dance, e.g. ARTS
South Australia's capital ADELAIDE
Swahili and related tongues BANTU
Test, as ore ASSAY
There are 216 on a baseball STITCHES
They go down to the wire NAILBITERS
They have combs APIARIES
They're on the map, briefly RTES
Thumb one's nose at FLOUT
Triangular formation DELTA
Type of test ENDURANCE
Venerable OLD
War of 1812 lake ERIE
Well-mannered bloke GENT
Wherry equipment OARS
Wile E. Coyote buy TNT
WWII battle site STLO
___ Beta Kappa PHI
___ of one's existence BANE
___-win situation ANO