USA Today - Feb 24 2011

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Clues Answers
"At Seventeen" singer Janis IAN
"When We Were Kings" boxer ALI
"___ the land of the free . . ." OER
After-wedding offerings TOASTS
Arabian leaders EMIRS
Be abundant TEEM
Car additive GAS
Claim otherwise DENY
Clarinet's cousin OBOE
Coping mechanism? SAW
Drier than dry SERE
Drilling sites OILFIELDS
Dumbfounded UNABLETORESPOND
Elemental bit ATOM
Employ USE
Ending that takes things to the extreme EST
Every other hurricane SHE
Food for Oliver Twist GRUEL
Force out of place DISLODGE
Get ___ a good thing INON
Get ___ of (throw away) RID
Golden Gloves contests BOUTS
In every respect ENTIRELY
It consists of a series of lines ROLE
Little mischief-maker RASCAL
Maiden-named NEE
Male operatic voice TENOR
Marine bivalve MUSSEL
Metabolism descriptor BASAL
Minuscule amount TAD
Moderately warm TEPID
More in line with reality TRUER
Mother-of-pearl NACRE
Murphy Brown was one NEWSWOMAN
Not as much LESS
On rare occasions SELDOM
Ordinal suffix ETH
Pooch sans papers CUR
Prominent NOTED
Clues Answers
Rabbit food, so to speak SALAD
Reddish-brown pigment SIENNA
Reiner, the younger ROB
Repetitive learning method ROTE
Request from an impressed audience ENCORE
Scandinavian area rugs RYAS
Scoundrels ROGUES
SFPD rank DET
Sign in a library QUIETPLEASE
Silence between notes REST
Snakelike swimmers EELS
Some winter woolens SCARFS
Speechless ATALOSSFORWORDS
Spiritualist's session SEANCE
Standard setting at 0 degrees long. GST
Start to snow? ESS
They'll do for openers KNOBS
Thigh muscle, informally QUAD
Thin, flat circular object DISK
Throw your hat in the ring RUN
Tiny circle DOT
Twelfth Jewish month ELUL
Vanity cases ETUIS
Walk-___ (clients sans appointments) INS
Wanderer ROAMER
Way up a snowy slope TBAR
Well above the neck? SANE
Wet spongy ground MARSH
What "amen" means SOBEIT
What a new parent craves SLEEP
Where some vets served NAM
Where you might rest easy SOFA
Wide angle designation OBTUSE
With the bow, to a violinist ARCO
Word on a husband's towel HIS
Yawning gulf (Var.) ABYSM
Young oyster SPAT
___ Dome, old home of the Indianapolis Colts RCA
___ out (overeat) PIG