USA Today - Jan 8 2011

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Clues Answers
"Are you serious?" WHAT
"Cato" playwright ADDISON
"Dear old" one DAD
"The Cloister and the Hearth" author READE
"The Life of Riley" character ODELL
17th Greek letter RHO
A name of God YAHWEH
Abu ___ DHABI
Aerated drink COLA
Ancient OLD
Bass-baritone Simon ESTES
Buzzing annoyance GNAT
Bygone coins LIRAS
China placement? ASIA
Conger, e.g. EEL
Davenport denizen IOWAN
Demean ABASE
Dismal state DREARINESS
Elbow-wrist connecting bone ULNA
Elmira locale, for short NYS
Engender SPAWN
Flue residue ASH
German poet Heinrich HEINE
Give the heave-ho OUST
Golf trap contents SAND
Horror film with rats BEN
Hullabaloo ADO
Ice cream units PINTS
Infamous Spandau prison inmate HESS
Island of central Hawaii LANAI
Land of the leprechauns EIRE
Latest, for short ULT
Leave unchanged, to an editor STET
Left Bank locale SEINE
Legal matter RES
Length X width AREA
Like a Stephen King story EERIE
Like Lewis Carroll's oysters EATEN
Line for a sewer? SEAM
Clues Answers
Made extensive revisions to OVERHAULED
Mass of humanity HORDE
Memorable periods in history ERAS
Mine vehicles TRAMS
Most vitreous GLASSIEST
Mother ___ (Nobel Peace Prize winner) TERESA
Movie presentations SCREENINGS
Movie with a very sad ending TEARJERKER
Opera solo ARIA
Oxlike Asian climber TAKIN
Pivot SLUE
Planning to vote "no" ANTI
Polloi lead-in HOI
Portend BODE
Pro ___ (in proportion) RATA
Prominent French chemist LAVOISIER
Property encumbrances LIENS
Read quickly SCAN
Ready for business OPEN
Rectangular grooves DADOS
Remove an outer coating PARE
See you in Hawaii? ALOHA
Sleep disorder APNEA
Speaker of baseball TRIS
Still under cover ABED
Strikebreaker SCAB
Teller's charge CASHDRAWER
Texas city ABILENE
Thesaurus name ROGET
Tied EVEN
Timber wolf LOBO
Underground chamber CAVE
Wheeler-dealer WIREPULLER
With no ice NEAT
Wool source SHEEP
Word in a social register, perhaps NEE
Word with "system" or "battery" SOLAR
You can take it or beat it RAP
___ Mahal TAJ