USA Today - Aug 31 2009

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Clues Answers
"... ___ our fathers brought forth on . . ." AGO
"All done!" THERE
"Billy Two ___" (1973 Gregory Peck film) HATS
"Don't count ___ !" ONIT
"Family ___" TIES
"I ___ bad moon rising . . ." SEEA
"MNF" viewing room, perhaps DEN
"Stanley & ___" (1990 Fonda / De Niro film) IRIS
"___ in apple" AAS
907.18 kilos TON
About INRE
Adder alarm SSS
Adventure tale GEST
Aesop creature HARE
Apt name for a herding dog SHEP
Astronomical flare-up NOVA
Avoid a certain church service ELOPE
Beat down TAMP
Beating in competence ABLER
Before noon, poetically MORN
Big fat lyre? HARP
Blacksmith's block ANVIL
Boxers Max and Buddy BAERS
Brief downtime CATNAP
Club card carriers (Abbr.) MBRS
Coloratura's piece ARIA
Comes by honestly EARNS
Commend, as for bravery CITE
Comprises HAS
Convergence points FOCI
Crime with accelerants ARSON
Elliptical shape OVAL
Emulated a rook CAWED
Ex-Spice Girl Halliwell GERI
Fall apart GOTOPIECES
Famous chipmunk ALVIN
Finish a 10-K GOTHEDISTANCE
First Oscar winner for animated films SHREK
First word of "Send in the Clowns" ISNT
Clues Answers
Get an ___ effort EFOR
Guy who was bound to escape HOUDINI
Humiliate ABASE
It rhymes with its preceding and following letter ETA
J. Smithson founded one (Abbr.) INST
Jasmine, for one TEA
Kids and their nannies GOATS
Koosh competitor NERF
Latest and greatest NEWEST
Least circumspect RASHEST
Liability offsetter ASSET
Like flying ants ALATE
Like some mouthwashes MINTY
Lots of new drivers TEENAGERS
Minor row SPAT
Nearly treeless plain TAIGA
One who hardly gives a hoot? OWLET
Parisian pupil ELEVE
Part of the eye that holds the iris UVEA
Persona ___ grata NON
Pet peeve for PETA FUR
Place of least resistance PATH
Poor boy's cousin? HERO
Random selection ANY
Rapier's big brother SABER
Risk it all GOFORBROKE
Saperstein and Simpson ABES
Shoe damage SCUFF
Summer Olympics event WATERPOLO
Take it as it comes GOWITHTHEFLOW
Thin narrow groove STRIA
Toast spreads OLEOS
Volunteer State NFLer TITAN
What you may now hear? THIS
Wind-___ (carried by the wind) BORNE
Writer Walker ALICE
Yards rushed, e.g. STAT
Yokum family adjective LIL
___ Beta Kappa PHI