USA Today - Jul 30 2009

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Clues Answers
"To have and to hold" affirmation IDO
"Who am ___ argue?" ITO
Airhead's lack CLUE
Albanian monetary unit LEK
Ancient gathering place AGORA
Any of the Dionne quintuplets GIRL
Atty.'s honorific ESQ
Author's explanation FOOTNOTE
Away from the storm ALEE
Bailey's circus partner BARNUM
Ballet costume TUTU
Bellow ROAR
Bit the pullet? ATE
Blue flower that's a symbol of remembrance FORGETMENOT
Boy Scout's reward: ___ badge MERIT
Brief and to the point TERSE
Burst of laughter PEAL
Canceled, as stamps USED
Cause of white knuckles TERROR
Certain scale sequence SOLFA
Co. with two fox terriers RCA
Consideration in dealing with others TACT
Container for small toiletries ETUI
Curved moldings OGEES
Demonic EVIL
Desert succulent CACTUS
Destination-bound ENROUTE
Dicker HAGGLE
Directly SOON
Displays fallibility ERRS
Dragnet action MANHUNT
Draw out EDUCE
Drummer's platform RISER
Dukes of Hazzard deputy ENOS
Dweller HABITANT
Egyptian life symbols ANKHS
Exclamation of sorrow ALAS
Fictional plantation TARA
Flinch, for instance REACT
Foul-smelling NOISOME
Four-baggers HOMERS
Game with numbered balls KENO
Glanders sufferer EQUINE
Glenn Gould, e.g. PIANIST
Groups related by blood CLANS
Hairdresser's handful TRESS
Has a bite EATS
Herman of kids' television PEEWEE
Hosiery shade NUDE
Hunter on high ORION
Ice-fishing tool AUGER
Impede lawfully ESTOP
In a melodic style ARIOSE
In time gone by AGO
In ___ of (instead) LIEU
Isn't a natural blonde DYES
It's the bottom line SUM
Jaunty rhythm LILT
Lab instruction? HEEL
Large crucifix ROOD
Largest city in South America SAOPAULO
Least favorable WORST
Like some wages HOURLY
Like unwashed gym clothes RIPE
Line before "a little man in a tree" RIDDLEMEREE
Mammal coats PELTS
Man with a top hat and cane GENT
Materials for soft hats and pool tables FELTS
ME GRADUATEDEGREE
ME NORTHEASTSTATE
ME PERSONALPRONOUN
Meeting of Congress SESSION
Millionaire creator? LOTTERY
Moment of forgetfulness LAPSE
More neat TIDIER
Motif THEME
Clues Answers
Mountain range of Arkansas OZARK
Mudder's day event? RACE
Mythical Tibetan creature YETI
Network of intersecting blood vessels RETE
Oath-taker's declaration SOHELPMEGOD
Ominous alternative ELSE
One who prevaricates LIAR
Pained expression MOUE
Palindromic antenna turner ROTATOR
Palindromic Preminger OTTO
Part of NFL LEAGUE
Pastoral ARCADIAN
Pearl-shaped pasta ORZO
Performed a cappella SANG
PGA player, e.g. PRO
Pinkie swear, e.g. PROMISE
Play-___ (kid's clay) DOH
Played boisterously ROMPED
Precipitates icily SLEETS
Prepared for refinishing SANDED
Prior to, in poetry ERE
Priority mail grp. USPS
Problem drinker SOT
Public act of violence RIOT
Pusher catcher (Abbr.) DEA
Ranch rumblings LOWS
Relating to the kidneys RENAL
Resort hotel SPA
Saw logs SNORE
Screw feature THREAD
See in a crowd ESPY
Separate abruptly TEAR
Set up a golf ball TEED
She liked Lance a lot ELAINE
Sheet of matted cotton BATT
Shopper's prize BARGAIN
Showed signs of aging GRAYED
Sits in a wine cellar AGES
Small amounts TADS
Stagecoach line? REIN
Stamp-selling org. USPS
Starbucks cup size GRANDE
Stares open-mouthed GAPES
Stemmed drinking glass GOBLET
Street where a grouch lives SESAME
Stress-free living EASE
Stroking gently PATTING
Strong suits FORTES
Take for a sucker USE
Take's partner GIVE
Talk type PEP
Tenor's performance, often ARIA
The Golden Age of Television, for one ERA
Type of boot or dancer GOGO
Unit of a flight of stairs STEP
University of Maryland student TERP
Uplifting undergarment BRA
Vacuum tube with three elements TRIODE
Verbal impudence SASS
Victorian or Napoleonic ERA
Volleyball partition NET
Wait's partner SEE
What causes Fred to be fired? ANI
When a plane should get in (Abbr.) ETA
White-tailed sea eagles ERNS
Wing-shaped ALAR
Wish to remedy RUE
With it, old-style HEP
Woolly mama EWE
Word on a penny or a dime ONE
Work outfit UNIFORM
WWE outcome PIN
You of yore THEE
Yule song NOEL
___ mater ALMA
___ out (display) TROT