USA Today - May 25 2012

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Clues Answers
"A Lesson From ___" ALOES
"A neat ship is a sweet ship," e.g ADAGE
"And now, without further ___ . . ." ADO
"Carmen" highlight ARIA
"Duck, duck" follower GOOSE
"Farewell, amigo!" ADIOS
"It was the ___ I could do" LEAST
"Th-th-that's ___, folks!" ALL
"___ upon a time . . ." ONCE
A straight cut SLIT
Adds a rider to AMENDS
Airborne fish-eaters ERNS
Al "Scarface" ___ CAPONE
Alternative to frozen FRESH
Anticipate AWAIT
Apply spin SKEW
Artist de Toulouse-Lautrec HENRI
Backers for plasterwork LATHS
Band of schemers CABAL
Banquet posting MENU
Battled a bout of homesickness PINED
Be a stickler INSIST
Big bungler OAF
Bit of a lie-down NAP
Blazed the trail LED
Branch in a trophy room ANTLER
Breeding stallion STUD
Calamine lotion target ITCH
Catch in a snare ENTRAP
Cause of deflation LEAK
Chowder choice CLAM
Circle or square SHAPE
Contraction with "do" or "work" ITLL
Costco quantity CASE
Dating from time immemorial AGEOLD
Draw the curtain on END
Emulates a bunny HOPS
Expensive material for belts or shoes ALLIGATORSKIN
Eye covering SCLERA
Clues Answers
Former coin of France SOU
Get older AGE
Give the brush-off to SNUB
Good to have around USEFUL
Heartthrob's fan ADORER
Inherent BREDINTHEBONE
Item in short supply on the Titanic LIFEBOAT
John's ode to Yoko WOMAN
Kin FLESHANDBLOOD
Like some chess matches DRAWN
Literary tribute ODE
Long time follower? AGO
Lou Grant's employee Baxter TED
Makes minor adjustments to TWEAKS
Many-stringed Japanese instruments KOTOS
Marauders (var.) BANDITTI
Mark left by a whip WELT
Metric liquid measures LITERS
Pasture LEA
Pronoun at sea SHE
Rip violently REND
Ripped or zipped TORE
Roy Halladay stat ERA
Sea under Italy's "boot" IONIAN
Slithery critters EELS
Soothsayer's prediction OMEN
Steer clear of SHUN
Styled in the salon COIFED
Suffix with "convention" or "racket" EER
Swellhead's excess EGO
Talk show invitees GUESTS
They're never really civil WARS
Thing with a wheeled heel SKATE
Throat-clearing attention-getters AHEMS
Unit of cotton BALE
Word omitted in alphabetization THE
Word that's dramatically sighed ALAS
___ contendere (court plea) NOLO
___ Jones Industrial Average DOW