USA Today - Feb 18 2010

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Clues Answers
". . . ___, whatever will be, will be" SERA
"A ___ Is Born" STAR
"Alas and ___" ALACK
"Fire at ___!" WILL
"Friends" friend CHANDLER
"My Name is Asher ___" LEV
A shade of blue TEAL
Actress/director Lupino IDA
Adjust one's laces RETIE
Air traffic control gp. FAA
Ancient Roman magistrate (Var.) PRETOR
Angelic circle HALO
Arrange beforehand PREPLAN
Astute SHREWD
At the highest point of ATOP
AWOL wildcat? MISSINGLYNX
Basic language unit MORPHEME
Behind, as a watch SLOW
Bellyacher GRUMP
Black-and-white cookie OREO
Blade in the water OAR
Blood-type letters ABO
Break under strain SNAP
British blueblood EARL
Buy into a poker game ANTE
Castor bean poison RICIN
Caviar, literally ROE
Cell messenger RNA
Certain Arctic Circle native LAPP
Creole cooking staple OKRA
Demonstratively sad TEARY
Earthy color ECRU
Emit an intense beam, as in some surgeries LASE
Famous canton in Switzerland URI
Fashion plate's concern STYLE
Fill to excess SATE
Front end of China? INDO
Gather, as the rewards of labor REAP
Glacier composition ICE
Clues Answers
It precedes an extra point? ALSO
It's between Connecticut Avenue and St. Charles Place JAIL
Lagomorph's grooming tool? HAREBRUSH
Less assertive SHYER
Like best friends CLOSE
Like mice and geese? PLURAL
Lower opposite UPPER
Make an appearance SHOW
Mournful cry WAIL
Mythological trickster LOKI
Narrow cut SLIT
New Orleans or New York, to ships SEAPORT
Oblivious UNAWARE
Odds opposite EVENS
One language spoken in India (Var.) PANJABI
Pack in a hold STOW
Pesky buzzer with a sore throat? HOARSEFLY
Physicist Niels BOHR
Plant pest APHID
Prepared to be photographed POSED
Provide accommodations for PUTUP
Quick puffs TOKES
Quince's cousin PEAR
Seriously wound MAIM
Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot SLEUTH
Shore, compared to the ocean DRYLAND
Sons of sisters NEPHEWS
Stairways to rivers, in India GHATS
Stretched tight TAUT
Suffix with "racket" or "rocket" EER
Unknown author's byline ANON
Use a dirk on STAB
Use a soapbox ORATE
Venue for Moffo or a buffo OPERA
Wasn't honest LIED
Where feet are pies SPAIN
Wildebeest corral? GNUSROUNDUP
Yankee Stadium's borough BRONX
___ de Janeiro, Brazil RIO