USA Today - Jul 13 2009

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Clues Answers
"Canterbury Tales" character REEVE
"I do" and "I shall," e.g. VOWS
"Pull it," in proofreading DELE
"Shoot!" OPENFIRE
"The Empire Strikes Back," chronologically PARTV
"___ The Titanic" (1980) RAISE
112.5 degrees away from S ENE
1998 erupter ETNA
A Kwanzaa principle UNITY
A low-carb diet ATKINS
Acid used in some trips LSD
Admission requirements, perhaps IDS
African expanse VELDT
American dogwood OSIER
Appease SATE
Appoint as an assistant DEPUTIZE
At a minimum NOLESS
Babe in the stable FOAL
Baker's device SIEVE
Break off a glacier CALVE
Calls the shots? REFS
Cary of "Twister" ELWES
Chinese gooseberry KIWI
Clown-faced primate LORIS
Distinctive and stylish elegance ELAN
Distinctive vocabulary ARGOT
Diver's apparatus SCUBA
Drought-scourged ARID
Emotional tension STRESS
Enameled metalware TOLE
Euripides tragedy MEDEA
Festive party BASH
Has the wherewithal CAN
Having melodic harmony TONAL
Makes an item more sellable REDUCESTHEPRICE
Marine biology milieu OCEAN
Marking in violin music GCLEF
Nation in Dec. 1991 news USSR
Clues Answers
New to you USED
Nights before? EVES
Not work very hard COAST
Offends the Godfather? DECLINESANOFFER
Perfumes with a joss stick CENSES
Phoebe's poetic sister ALICE
Pitches the first inning STARTS
Proficient one WHIZ
Punches in the shop AWLS
Rice wine SAKE
Robust brews ALES
Royal in a sari RANI
Scrumptious TASTY
Seed coverings ARILS
Shielded from the storm ALEE
Small talk topic RAIN
Snake that's really sumthing? ADDER
Snootiness AIRS
Something that's hatched PLAN
Speed skater Heiden ERIC
Stops shouting LOWERSONESVOICE
Straight muscles RECTI
Takes the plates away CLEARS
Teeniest Greek letter? IOTA
They makes lots ACRES
They outrank specialists (Abbr.) NCOS
Thunder god THOR
Travel agency to the stars? NASA
Type of tissue SCAR
Verbal assault SLAM
Wallace of Reader's Digest LILA
Where some people request to be buried ATSEA
Wilderness retreats DENS
Word in a Neil Armstrong quote STEP
___ Lanka SRI
___ out a living (barely scraped by) EKED
___-mo (film technique) SLO
___-tzu (Taoism's founder) LAO