USA Today - Oct 13 2009

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Clues Answers
"Billy Budd" captain VERE
"Dies ___" (mass hymn) IRAE
"Let's do it!" IMIN
"Messiah" end AMEN
"The A-Team" muscleman MRT
"What ___, chopped liver?" AMI
"___ Cane" (1963 movie) MONDO
"___ pasa?" QUE
Abbreviated Latin phrase ETAL
Acadia and Yukon GMCS
Advanced gradually EDGED
Await judgment PEND
Baker of song ANITA
Basilica's center NAVE
Big name in fabrics JOANN
Big red planet MARS
Cabinet member under Dubya CONDI
Calm's opposite ANGST
Common-purpose group BLOC
Composition describing rural life (Var.) IDYL
Cookie Monster cohort ERNIE
Cub Scout groups DENS
Dance and drama ARTS
Doozy LULU
Drink with an extended pinkie SIP
Early seventh-century year DCII
Easily broken FRAIL
Elementary school practice book READER
Empty, as a lot VACANT
Far from fresh RANCID
Florentine ruling family MEDICI
Give the slip to EVADE
Graph line AXIS
Happy INSEVENTHHEAVEN
Happy MERRYASACRICKET
Happy ONCLOUDNINE
Happy FREEANDEASY
Has a flat RENTS
Highest degree NTH
Clues Answers
In the past AGO
It helps you get a leg up RUNG
It may be used for a write-off REDINK
It's between E and F? GAS
It's often filtered EMAIL
Just got by (with "out") EKED
Leggy shorebird AVOCET
Lifting part of a crane HOIST
Like days of yore OLDEN
Must-haves NEEDS
Neighbor of 1-Across IRAN
Online shopping icon CART
Pelvic bones ILIA
Pendulum paths ARCS
Piece of news ITEM
Proprietors OWNERS
Purported RUMORED
Queued (up) LINED
Rational belief in God DEISM
River in northern France ORNE
River that joins the Fulda EDER
Second of all? EVE
Several czars IVANS
Sharp-smelling ACRID
Some '60s hits? LSD
Some daisies OXEYES
Squirter in the garage OILCAN
Strip mall unit STORE
Sudden shock JOLT
The "V" in VHF VERY
Unaccounted-for GIs MIAS
Unfurnished BARE
Where dinner costs dinars IRAQ
Wiggle room LEEWAY
Word used when adding ALSO
Zamboni milieu ICERINK
Zeus's wife and sister HERA
___ lettuce (romaine) COS
___-town (the Windy City) CHI