USA Today - Apr 28 2009

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Clues Answers
''Make my day!'' or ''Bet you can't'' DARE
1492 vessel PINTA
6,272,640 square inches ACRE
Affirm as true AVOW
Blankety-blank ones SOANDSOS
Brahms' ''___Rhapsody'' ALTO
Bring up REAR
Brink VERGE
British singing group SPICEGIRLS
Charmingly attractive CUTE
Clique of criminals RING
Closest, in a guessing game WARMEST
December 24 sighting SLEIGH
Detective's question WHO
Downsize PARE
Emulate Paul Bunyan CHOP
Exert, as influence WIELD
Far-reaching view VISTA
Fourth-largest Great Lake ERIE
Gives safety information WARNS
Hardly scarce RIFE
Horse hue ROAN
Illusionary genre OPART
Incited to anger RILED
Island east of Java BALI
It goes from A to Z ALPHABET
It has 35 bathrooms WHITEHOUSE
Keep one's balance? OWE
Lagasse exclamation BAM
Language related to Thai LAO
Like Napoleon EXILED
Like Radio City Music Hall, informally DECO
Like some anesthetic LOCAL
Lobster spawn ROE
Milan landmark, La ___ SCALA
Minute matter ATOM
Missouri state animal MULE
Mortgage alternative LEASE
Nativity scene necessity MANGER
Clues Answers
Network for ''Knight Rider'' NBC
One seen streaking METEOR
Out of energy SPENT
Part of some patients' care SPONGEBATH
Parts of the machine, maybe COGS
Per se ASSUCH
Period on a geologic time scale EPOCH
Pitcher's stat, for short ERA
Plagued by pains ACHY
Pool marking DEPTH
Propeller of a sort OAR
Public relations interpretations SPINS
Punk's pistol HEATER
Puny pest MITE
Quick business trip? ERRAND
Rank and vile EVIL
Receipt listings COSTS
River through Indiana WABASH
Roman army divisions LEGIONS
Royal address SIRE
Seasonal employee ELF
Sentence-finisher, for short EXCON
She replaced Gifford RIPA
Sign on some lawns SOLD
Slav sort SERB
Some are essential OILS
Some are high and some are false HOPES
Speak at length ORATE
Studies desperately CRAMS
Sub seeker SONAR
Succulent plant ALOE
Sympathetic feeling PITY
Tight-lipped entertainer MIME
Typographer's widths ENS
What you do at home BAT
Where many a ''Seinfeld'' scene took place COFFEESHOP
Word ending many software titles PRO
Yemen port ADEN
You, a long time ago THEE