USA Today - Mar 2 2012

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Clues Answers
"77 Sunset Strip" character KOOKIE
"While" lead-in ERST
"___! The Herald Angels Sing" HARK
1777 battle site near Philadelphia PAOLI
Advertising supplement INSERT
Affecting the brain and spinal cord NEURAL
Autumn apple WINESAP
Avoid being a no-show ATTEND
Barely perceptible amount TRACE
Baseball historian Burns KEN
Battery unit VOLT
Big-time happening EVENT
Bill Gates found one unnecessary MBA
Black, in stanzas EBON
Blockheads OAFS
Blows the mind of STUNS
British "Inc." LTD
Cash dispenser, initially ATM
Charged atom ION
Child's drink option CHOCOLATEMILK
Color of 22-Across RED
Competitor in a contest ENTRANT
Completely ridiculous INANE
Computer operating system UNIX
Core of opponents? ONE
Development map PLAT
Diner's card MENU
Do dyeing work COLOR
Exalting poem ODE
Fit to till ARABLE
Foxy SLY
Fridge ancestor ICEBOX
Gilt's abode STY
Golfers' wear VISORS
Gong TAMTAM
Grouch CRAB
Join a cause ENLIST
Knocks out cold KAYOS
Large java dispenser URN
Clues Answers
Leave nothing to chance PLAN
Majority MOST
Manner STYLE
Miner's quest ORE
Mom, dad and three kids, e.g CARFUL
Multiple-___ (like some exams) CHOICE
Muscle connectors SINEWS
Objective INTENT
Official on the field (Abbr.) REF
Org. with rats and moles CIA
Part of RCMP ROYAL
Pertaining to the beach LITTORAL
Place (with "down") SET
Potter or Klink (Abbr.) COL
Present-day Persia IRAN
Raised-eyebrow exclamations OHS
Runner that gets waxed SKI
Seed covering ARIL
Shipping unit TON
Some small freshwater fishes DACES
St. or blvd. relative AVE
Swedish pile rug RYA
Their business is brewing STARBUCKSCOFFEE
Three-player card game SKAT
Tropical vines LIANAS
Unappealing NOTONESCUPOFTEA
Unit of volume STERE
Unshaven HAIRY
Use, as a dish EATON
Way back when ONCE
Winged god of love EROS
Word of assent YES
Word used when adding? ALSO
___ & Span (household cleanser) SPIC
___ a soul (no one) NARY
___ fly (certain baseball hit, for short) SAC
___ Lanka SRI
___ Mountains (Everest's range) HIMALAYA
___ out (made, but barely) EKED