USA Today - Aug 23 2011

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Clues Answers
"Ball" or "buff" ending OON
"Hairy man" of Genesis ESAU
"How did ___ thing like that happen?" ILETA
"Immediately!" in 20-Across STAT
"It Came Upon a Midnight ___" CLEAR
"My Fair Lady" horse race ASCOT
"Strike up the band!" HITIT
"Think nothing ___!" OFIT
"___ guy walks into a bar . . ." SOA
157.5 degrees from S NNE
Actress Keaton DIANE
Alternative to burritos TACOS
Amtrak stops (Abbr.) STNS
Amts. for 11-Down ESTS
An easy problem for the Scarecrow? NOBRAINER
Appear impressively large LOOM
Arithmetic function ADD
Arrested, slangily RANIN
Aspirin targets ACHES
Avis features ALAE
Awful review PAN
B-baller's decoration TAT
Barge ___ (interrupt) INON
Barroom brawl, e.g. SETTO
Begins a Broadway run OPENS
Begins to flutter the eyelids STIRS
Bering or Formosa (Abbr.) STR
Birth-related NATAL
Body of good conduct ETHIC
Bread for tamales? DINERO
Brooklyn's ___ Island CONEY
Buddy PAL
Cleaving tool FROE
Co. in the merger that formed Verizon GTE
Contaminates TAINTS
Disorderly crowds MOBS
Doctors swear to it HIPPOCRATICOATH
Easily split rock SHALE
Clues Answers
Explosive stuff TNT
For whom the bell tolls THEE
General practitioner's field FAMILYMEDICINE
Get top billing for STARIN
Greyhound site DEPOT
Grip tightly CLENCH
Hawaii's "Pineapple Island" LANAI
Hops hotspot? OAST
Indigenous people of Japan AINU
Is decked out in HASON
It's in the genes DNA
Judges judge GIDEON
Kelly of morning TV RIPA
Kind of surgery OPENHEART
Kwik-E-Mart owner on "The Simpsons" APU
Lamar of the NBA ODOM
MacDonald's refrain EIEIO
Maestro Toscanini ARTURO
Many Christmas trees FIRS
Mythical archer EROS
Narrow river inlet RIA
One-named New Age musician YANNI
Operation centers? EMERGENCYROOMS
Part of FDR DELANO
Peacekeeper, e.g. ICBM
Person concerned with numbers ACCOUNTANT
Placement for Kathy Griffin DLIST
Production from a well OIL
Sha ___ (doo-wop group) NANA
Shipping counterweights TARES
Spike's old network name TNN
Tres - dos UNO
Type of store DEPARTMENT
Wellington or mukluk BOOT
Whale like Willy ORCA
What convalescents need, for short TLC
Where it all started ORIGIN
Wine press residue MARC