USA Today - May 4 2011

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Clues Answers
"Back to the Batcave" autobiographer West ADAM
"Can you ___ little faster?" GOA
"___ a yellow ribbon . . ." TIE
Advanced over, in a way LEAPFROGGED
Airport features HANGARS
As previously mentioned, in footnotes IDEM
Aussie avian EMU
Baseball Hall-of-Famer ___ Wee Reese PEE
Be bedridden AIL
Boring BLAH
Brick-carrying trough HOD
Car battery boost JUMPSTART
Certain piece of jewelry ARMLET
Chalcedony variety SARD
Chore list heading TODO
Climbed aboard a 747 ENPLANED
Coconut fiber COIR
Collection of poetry EPOS
Commit a faux pas ERR
Compete in the Nordic combined SKI
Copy editor's note DELE
Deficit SHORTAGE
Desire for warm weather SPRINGFEVER
Doesn't buy it RENTS
Drought-damaged SERE
Factions SIDES
Fiddle-playing emperor NERO
Freshwater mollusk MUSSEL
Guy's date GAL
Herbal drink TEA
Idaho's capital BOISE
IHOP offerings SYRUPS
Japanese metropolis OSAKA
Knife handles HAFTS
Legions HOSTS
Like meat past its prime GAMY
Little bighorn LAMB
Martial arts schools DOJOS
Meat jelly ASPIC
Clues Answers
More precious RARER
Newspaper piece ITEM
Noted zoo town SANDIEGO
Ocean's rise and fall TIDE
Positive thinker's word CAN
Puffs TOKES
Put a stop to ENDED
Reedy woodwind OBOE
Relaxed EASED
Rock blaster TNT
Set of cultural values ETHOS
Shield of classical mythology AEGIS
Ship that was double-booked? ARK
Shogun sash OBI
Sidewalk game HOPSCOTCH
Stage-show backgrounds SETS
Sunset time, in verse EEN
The "R" in NRA RIFLE
Thin land masses ISTHMI
Thingamabobs DOODADS
Tokyo, pre-Tokyo EDO
Tool-sharpening device OILSTONE
Trade org. with Saudi Arabia and Iran OPEC
Tusk material IVORY
Type of aerobics STEP
Type of pickle DILL
Unbuttered, as toast DRY
Unnecessarily severe HARSH
V-formation fliers GEESE
Veterans Day mo. NOV
Vibrating musical effects TREMOLOS
Victim of temptation EVE
Wetlands wader EGRET
Wheeler-dealer in D.C., e.g. POL
Where a stud may be situated EARLOBE
Yankee rival MET
Yelled SCREAMED
Yemen neighbor OMAN
___-Magnon man CRO