USA Today - Dec 28 2011

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Clues Answers
"Beauty is only skin deep," e.g ADAGE
"Beetle Bailey" cartoonist Walker MORT
"Cruces" or "Palmas" heading LAS
A gutter is often under it EAVE
A home away from home MOTEL
Abba of Israel EBAN
Answering-machine button ERASE
Atmospheric streaker METEOR
Author Alice or H.H MUNRO
Back 40 unit ACRE
Big wheel on board HELM
Bird-feeder bits SEEDS
Cash, to a farmer? BALEOFHAY
Cash, to a golfer? LONGGREEN
Cassette recorder button abbrs RECS
Celestial body with a tail COMET
Cheated at drawing TRACED
Chum PAL
Comment REMARK
Copy EMULATE
Craggy peak TOR
Curbside money-machines METERS
Dedicated poems ODES
Djibouti's gulf ADEN
Dressed to the ___ NINES
End in ___ (be deadlocked) ATIE
Enthusiastic review RAVE
Fine cotton variety PIMA
Flatters (with "over") FAWNS
Gemstone surface FACET
Go from rock to dust ERODE
Gullibility NAIVETE
Half of a 44-Across FIVER
Hardly a close-cut hairdo AFRO
Hit the runway LANDED
Huron neighbor ERIE
In an upright position ERECT
Items in a smokehouse HAMS
Lab medium AGAR
Clues Answers
Lamb's nom-de-plume ELIA
Laments audibly MOANS
Like rosaries and some evening gowns BEADED
Longtime Susan Lucci role ERICA
Marina feature PIER
Medieval war clubs MACES
Money for a rabbit? LETTUCE
Monstrous loch NESS
Need to reimburse OWE
New York city UTICA
Nonchalance COOLNESS
On the small side WEE
Opposite of "Hooray!" ALAS
Peace sign VEE
Pest from a nest HORNET
Place to roll the dice RENO
Poet's "before" ERE
Pyle, of the marines GOMER
Recount piece in 2000 CHAD
Relative, but not by blood INLAW
Repeat without thinking PARROT
Retracted a belief RECANTED
Revealed, as one's soul BARED
Rocks, to a bartender ICE
Scarlett of Tara OHARA
Seventh letter of the Greek alphabet ETA
Sheltered bay COVE
Short court officials? REFS
Singing Baker ANITA
Some breakfast dishes OMELETS
Some cash for a carpenter? SAWBUCK
Soothing plant extract ALOE
Stove parts BURNERS
Track star Jesse OWENS
Turkey Day herb SAGE
Turns blue? DYES
Where to make oodles of boodle MINT
World's longest river NILE
____ Mongolia (Asian region) INNER