USA Today - Jan 7 2012

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Clues Answers
''Fur ___'' (Beethoven) ELISE
''Shoot!'' ASK
1968 folk album ARLO
43,560 square feet ACRE
Alliance basis, perhaps PACT
Ancient Roman council SENATE
Australian avian EMU
Body shop fig EST
Champion WORLDBEATER
Classic film character KANE
Climbing plant with fragrant flowers SWEETPEA
Colonial baby of note DARE
Colorful shrub AZALEA
Consume USE
Dark purple PUCE
Desk ref. book DICT
Diplomat's asset TACT
Eligibility factor AGE
Excellent CRACKERJACK
Feeds the hogs SLOPS
Feel affection for LIKE
Fine-tune ADJUST
Floe is a component of it PACKICE
Foot-pound subdivision ERG
Form a secret merger? ELOPE
Forty-niner's quest RICHES
French novelist Émile ZOLA
Gets one's goat IRKS
Gets supplies to troops, in a way AIRDROPS
Govt. air checker EPA
Grassy plains of Argentina PAMPAS
Great PEACHYKEEN
Greek shipper Onassis, informally ARI
Green goal CUP
Hindu queen (Var.) RANEE
Houyhnhnm's creator SWIFT
In the air ALOFT
Informal cafes BISTROS
Clues Answers
Intimidates DAUNTS
Irving and Isaiah BERLINS
Island guitar, briefly UKE
It comes in bags, often TEA
Italian wine-producing city ASTI
Item in a medical kit TAPE
Jim-dandy SUPERDUPER
Legal start? PARA
Like missile paths ARCED
Lovable in a naive way ADORABLE
Maiden name intro NEE
Military no-show AWOL
Misjudge ERR
Most flea-bitten SEEDIEST
Neighbor of Myanmar LAOS
One way to become a father ADOPT
One with a habit ADDICT
Out-and-out ARRANT
Pen name BIC
Poetic preposition ERE
Predecessor of Roger and Pierce SEAN
Priam's wife HECUBA
Pride and envy, e.g SINS
Reacts to an awful pun MOANS
Retains HAS
Rubs out ERASES
Shipper's postings RATES
Spanish pot OLLA
State bordering Colo KAN
Sugar substitute? DEAR
Tick away ELAPSE
Tickled AMUSED
Town in many Westerns LAREDO
TV's Southfork Ranch locale DALLAS
Wake from sleep AROUSE
What hairdressers do RESTYLE
Withdraw RECEDE
Word before drop or flap EAR