USA Today - Sep 7 2012

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Clues Answers
"Welcome to my humble ___" ABODE
Admire, and then some ESTEEM
Arbiter with a whistle REF
Avoid elimination in musical chairs SIT
Baked Hawaiian dish POI
Beetlike vegetables CHARDS
Begin to form, as a storm BREW
Big shot FATCAT
Biggest human bone FEMUR
Boise's state IDAHO
Bollywood wardrobe item SARI
Bottle-throwing occasion RIOT
Carmaker based in Munich BMW
Certain military pilot's rank AIRMAN
Companion of "flow" EBB
Condescend DEIGN
Corresponds, grammatically AGREES
Damsons and greengages PLUMS
Diamond, pearl or sapphire GEM
Diffusing by absorption OSMOSING
Doll's leg? GAM
Dots in the sea ISLETS
Drapery ornament TASSEL
Entertainer at a kid's birthday party CLOWN
Epoch in which mammals arose EOCENE
Extra plentiful RIFE
Gabor of "Green Acres" EVA
Golf bag peg TEE
Group's tenets ETHOS
Held in servitude UNFREE
High tenor FALSETTO
Hit to the shortstop without bouncing, e.g LINEOUT
Iowa State locale AMES
Key on a keyboard's bottom row ALT
Kitty's cry MEW
Lennon's bride ONO
Lobster pincer CLAW
Look lustfully LEER
Lummox OAF
Clues Answers
Make a decision OPT
Male heir SON
Mattress covering SHEET
Mature female germ cells OVA
Mauna ___ (Hawaiian volcano) KEA
Merry month MAY
Minstrel's instrument, perhaps LUTE
Mortgage holder, e.g LIENEE
One of Pittsburgh's three rivers OHIO
One of three in a big delivery? TRIPLET
One of two sibling quarterbacks ELI
One way to move a small boat ROW
Overturn, as a government TOPPLE
Parents' hirees SITTERS
Pilot's datum (Abbr.) ETA
Place to make waves OCEAN
Prepare to toss paper in a wastebasket CRUMPLE
React with fright CRINGE
Remember to forget OMIT
Replacer of the franc EURO
Rude or vulgar fool BUFFOON
Runoff collector SEWER
Say further ADD
Sib's nickname SIS
Skirt border HEM
Smooth and connected, in music LEGATO
Soapmaker's caustic need LYE
Some salamanders NEWTS
Stars and Stripes land, briefly USA
Time-honored sayings ADAGES
Uncles' mates AUNTS
Viking quaff MEAD
What WOW means to a sage? WORDSOFWISDOM
What WOW means to a shoplifter? WALKOFFWITH
What WOW means to an honest person? WASOPENWITH
Winter Palace resident, once TSAR
Word seen in wedding announcements NEE
Zach's "The Hangover" role ALAN
___ Aviv, Israel TEL