USA Today - Aug 22 2012

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Clues Answers
". . . for a ___ pittance" MERE
"American ___" (hit TV show) IDOL
"And has thou ___ the Jabberwock?" SLAIN
"While" beginning ERST
"Yuck!" UGH
"___ of Honey" (Herb Alpert hit) ATASTE
43,560-square-foot unit ACRE
Actor's minimum wage SCALE
Ancient Brit PICT
Ancient letters RUNES
Beigelike hue ECRU
Biblical mariner NOAH
Black shades, to poets EBONS
Black-and-white cookie OREO
Breezing through, as a test ACING
Brilliant thought IDEA
Bubbly drink SODA
Bygone Russian autocrat TSAR
Castle or Dunne IRENE
Central meaning GIST
Coach's helper (Abbr.) ASST
Colorless gas RADON
Common Market abbr EEC
Cousins of Wranglers LEES
Cuts on an angle BEVELS
Day care candidates TOTS
Did a dragon in SLEW
Disney mermaid ARIEL
Executioner's rope NOOSE
Fairy-tale slipper material GLASS
Fed's publisher GPO
Fields of study AREAS
First digit in an Alaskan zip code NINE
Flamboyant style ELAN
For each one APIECE
Furious IRATE
Get rid of, as a ruler OUST
Group with only members of the violin family STRINGORCHESTRA
Clues Answers
Household hookup CABLETELEVISION
Ignited LIT
Illusory painting genre OPART
Keep ___ head above water ONES
Low-pressure pitch SOFTSELL
Manning or Wallach ELI
Mao ___-tung TSE
Mideast ruler EMIR
Mrs. Turnblad in "Hairspray" EDNA
Mulligan, e.g STEW
Multiple misters (Abbr.) MESSRS
One way to avoid a wedding rehearsal dinner ELOPE
Partner of Crosby and Stills NASH
Piglet's pal POOH
Places PUTS
Plaster support board LATH
Portion placed on a plate in a pew TITHE
Priest from the East LAMA
Raucous brawl MELEE
Reckon wrongly ERR
Related on the mother's side ENATE
Ride behind a speedboat WATERSKI
Salmonlike fish SMELT
Scandinavian language NORSE
Secure tightly, asea LASH
Small ornamental case ETUI
Some pets CATS
Something odd about the wash? SOCK
Sound by the bay? NEIGH
Street-corner shout TAXI
Suits BEFITS
Theater sign EXIT
Type of bear or cap POLAR
Ulnae's neighbors RADII
What a coffee shop may be WIRELESSHOTSPOT
What a forklift may lift PALLET
White and basmati, e.g RICES
___-Saxon ANGLO