USA Today - Jul 11 2012

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Clues Answers
"As I was saying . . ." ANYHOW
"Lucky Jim" author Kingsley AMIS
"The Sheik of ___" ARABY
"___ port in a storm" ANY
'60s hallucinogenic LSD
Avoid a trial PLEABARGAIN
Banned bug-killer DDT
Baseball ploy with two runners on DOUBLESTEAL
Belly muscles, for short ABS
Bering Sea bird AUK
Black or white Mad character SPY
Boy Scout recitation OATH
Break the rules CHEAT
Bunting and Rathbone BASILS
Capital of Canada OTTAWA
Charlotte of "Diff'rent Strokes" RAE
Closed with authority SEALED
Club that doesn't beat much DEUCE
Coalition BLOC
Come to a conclusion END
Costa del ___ SOL
Country singer Tim MCGRAW
Dastardly dude CAD
Destructive insect LOCUST
Digits for counting beyond ten? TOES
Easily broken FRAGILE
Eve's garden EDEN
Fancy water holes SPAS
Fiddling Roman NERO
First name in pharmaceutical giants ELI
Freaked out PLOTZED
Had the special ATE
Hathaway of "Bride Wars" ANNE
Hindu or Buddhist scriptures TANTRA
Hockey infraction ICING
Housebroken animal PET
Humphrey's Bacall LAUREN
It goes through the wringer MOP
It increases by degrees ANGLE
Clues Answers
Jed Clampett's discovery OIL
Locale of Grand Central EASTSIDE
Low dam WEIR
Make a successful proposal CLINCHTHEDEAL
Mrs. Rocky Balboa ADRIAN
Name of several Norwegian kings OLAV
Not the mixing kind ASOCIAL
O'Hare approx ETA
One to hang with PAL
Ottoman Empire bigwigs BEYS
Outward appearances MIENS
Part of a crossword CLUE
Passport holder CITIZEN
Pastoral expanse LEA
Prior to BEFORE
Prior's priory ABBEY
Prospector's bonanza LODE
Pull at with effort TUG
Raw fish dish SUSHI
Road goo TAR
Scope BREADTH
Seize before it passes SNATCH
Soak (up), as gravy SOP
Speed a motor REV
Starting point ONSET
Stereotypical hairstyle for a librarian BUN
Stockholdings SHARES
Supremely happy BLISSFUL
Tax ___ (IRS quarry) EVADER
Tennis do-overs LETS
Touches up EMENDS
Trivia, essentially FACTS
Try to collect BILL
Walk in the woods HIKE
Weaving apparatus LOOM
Word with "gossip" or "chatter" IDLE
Workman's wheels VAN
Wrangler alternative LEE
Zilch NIL