USA Today - Dec 31 2011

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Clues Answers
''A Christmas Story'' wish BBGUN
''Blast the luck!'' DRAT
''Fine with me'' YES
''Honor ___ Father'' (Talese novel) THY
''Skoal'' and ''cheers'' TOASTS
''Steppenwolf'' author Hermann HESSE
''The Prince and the Pauper'' author TWAIN
''Top Gun'' targets BOGEYS
''Wings'' character FAY
Actor Sharif OMAR
Actress Verdugo ELENA
Adulterated IMPURE
Appearance VISAGE
Arthroscopic surgery site KNEE
Asti follower SPUMANTI
Biblical verb suffix ETH
Big Dipper bear URSA
Billions of years, geologically EONS
Boy Scout Jamboree enclosures TENTS
Bullets, in card slang ACES
By way of PER
Character with a corncob pipe POPEYE
Child hood? IMP
Chipmunk snatcher OWL
Close, as a windbreaker ZIPUP
Comber's woe KNOT
Comic tribute ROAST
Complaints, in slang BEEFS
Dan Aykroyd comedy DOCTORDETROIT
Delicacy that may be pickled EEL
Detroit-to-Baltimore direction ESE
Don Ho's hello ALOHA
Ear-relevant AURAL
Flattened fish RAY
George Hamilton's pride SUNTAN
Gives the slip ELUDES
Guck relative GOO
Holden/Bendix oater STREETSOFLAREDO
In a sneaky manner SLYLY
Clues Answers
Islands east of Fiji TONGA
It can't be right LEFT
It's often touched up GRAY
It's past due? TRE
Jim Varney character ERNEST
Jimmy Stewart film (with ''The'') SPIRITOFSTLOUIS
Kind of survivor SOLE
Large wine holders VATS
Large-eyed tree climber LEMUR
Let out of the sty UNPEN
Like a fugitive ONTHERUN
Luau dances HULAS
Lunch order, briefly BLT
Madcap ZANY
Negative stat for a QB INT
Oboe ancestor SHAWM
One thing to do with a bucket BAIL
Overly theatrical STAGY
Peace of mind REPOSE
Perfect pass SPIRAL
Ply with wine BESOT
Poitier role SIR
Pulver title in ''Mister Roberts'' (Abbr.) ENS
Range of knowledge KEN
Rough-mannered GRUFF
Sadat's predecessor NASSER
Senate opening SEAT
Small, in dialect LIL
State in India ASSAM
Sufficient, to Shakespeare ENOW
Sweet treat GUMDROP
Temptation got the better of her EVE
Tissue removal BIOPSY
Try to get an answer ASK
TV band UHF
Type of whale SEI
WWII ships LSTS
York or Pepper (Abbr.) SGT
___ major (force of nature) VIS