USA Today - May 4 2009

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Clues Answers
''. . . the __ of my existence'' BANE
50th anniversary, for example MILESTONE
A, in geometry AREA
Astro, Scooby-Doo or Dino, e.g. PET
Attach applique SEW
Banned chemical for fruit ALAR
Big Three meeting place YALTA
Blemished MARRED
Blood-sucking African fly TSETSE
Boy Scout of the lowest rank TENDERFOOT
Brilliantly plumed parrot MACAW
By the year ANNUALLY
Capital on the Missouri PIERRE
Cascade peak SHASTA
Center line on a stick figure TORSO
Central American critter IGUANA
Chip's companion DALE
Cousins of canters TROTS
Cowpoke's charge STEER
Enjoy, as pigs in mud WALLOW
Fairy tale setting, sometimes PALACE
Fairy ___ (bluecap) WREN
Fictional password user ALIBABA
Fife and Rubble BARNEYS
First-class AONE
Flutters, as eyelids BATS
Gets off the fence OPTS
Give a little push PROD
Hemingway handle PAPA
Hunks of marble SLABS
It doesn't end with a bang DUD
It may be underfoot TILE
It'll unharden your garden HOE
Keeps out of harm's way PROTECTS
Kind of dive SWAN
Like animals in a zoo CAGED
Like terra cotta tiles CERAMIC
Clues Answers
Mel of baseball and crossword fame OTT
Misleading trick RUSE
Mixes up, as batter STIRS
More, in a saying LESS
Motion detector, e.g. SENSOR
Muscle quality TONE
Netherlands city (with ''The'') HAGUE
Offshoot group SECT
One always taking shots? SOT
One of Michael Jackson's brothers TITO
Person to bum around with PAL
Potable of poor quality SWILL
Puts one within another NESTS
Quartet after a defection TRIO
Quite a lot OFTEN
Resides DWELLS
Some college endowers ALUMS
Spears IMPALES
Speech prompter, perhaps AWARD
Stack of fireplace logs WOODPILE
Sticking stopper PAM
Structure with a skybox ARENA
Surgeon's seam SUTURE
Swedish statesman Hammarskjold DAG
Teddy's Mount Rushmore neighbor ABE
There's no truth to it LIE
They crawl in the dirt INCHWORMS
They're sometimes shaken MARTINIS
Thrusts out a lip or two POUTS
To be, to Cato ESSE
Took a load off SAT
Tool that may be instrumental? SAW
Tumblers' pads MATS
Two-by-four spot LUMBERYARD
Uncalled for NEEDLESS
Unmannerly IMPOLITE
Was in the vanguard LED