USA Today - Aug 28 2012

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Clues Answers
". . . chicken ___ egg?" ORTHE
". . . ___ wed" ITHEE
"El," pluralized LOS
"Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker MOORE
"I hate to break up ___" ASET
"Tattered Tom" novelist Horatio ALGER
"___ Stop the Rain?" (1970 hit) WHOLL
A ALPHABETSTARTER
AA NARROWSHOEWIDTH
AAA EXCELLENTGRADES
Acid-alcohol compound ESTER
Actor Fernando or Lorenzo LAMAS
Ancient Greek marketplaces AGORAS
Aquatic frolicker OTTER
Assuming it will happen at all IFEVER
Backers for plasterwork LATHS
Barbary swingers APES
Bonnie girl LASS
Bridal veil material, perhaps TULLE
Charlie's luster? SHEEN
Come to contractual terms AGREE
Concealed PERDU
Conclusion END
Coy animal ending? OTE
Dramatic solo at the Met ARIA
Ending for "salt" or "Paul" INE
Entryway of a sort GATE
Equine pace TROT
Estimated worth VALUE
Extravagant affair GALA
Fifth or Madison AVENUE
First word of many epitaphs HERE
Get-one-free deal TWOFER
Gin flavoring SLOE
Gull-like bird of cold regions SKUA
High-definition tube, for short LCDTV
Holiday that's been cut short XMAS
Hoses down WETS
Increasingly rare PC part CRT
Clues Answers
Kilmer of "Top Gun" VAL
Los ___ (nuclear site) ALAMOS
Make a run for it DASH
Merganser's kin SMEW
Moorehead who was Endora on "Bewitched" AGNES
Needing a doctor's attention ILL
No honor ___ thieves AMONG
Non-negotiable item MUST
Number whose square equals its square root ONE
Old anesthetic ETHER
Parrot's morsel SEED
Part of a griffin LION
Passed along by storytellers ORAL
Pew location NAVE
Pouty expressions MOUES
Prefix with "while" ERST
Prince's name was once one SYMBOL
Prospector's prize GOLD
Relative of "My word!" EGAD
Roof edge EAVE
Slightly inclined ATILT
Something in one's eye? GLEAM
Speak the truth for the truce? LISP
Splittable by two EVEN
Stable youngster COLT
Stars represent its constituents USA
Stirrup's site EAR
Take into the body INGEST
Take it to a higher court APPEAL
Tea-leaves reader SEER
Text-message command SEND
They sometimes raid the kitchen ANTS
Time gone by YORE
Tranquilizer gun projectile DART
Truth's counterpart DARE
Viticultural valley of California NAPA
Walkway for pirates' prey PLANK
Word with "family" or "shoe" TREE
Words before "double" or "mend" ONTHE