USA Today - Sep 26 2012

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Clues Answers
"Buona ___" (Italian greeting) SERA
"Do as I say" OBEY
"Jake's Thing" author Kingsley AMIS
"The Untouchables" lawman NESS
Amorous whispers COOS
Backup to a prez VEEP
Boat made of gopher wood ARK
Builder of 42-Down NOAH
Cogito ___ sum (Descartes' conclusion) ERGO
Coil of yarn HANK
Dick Tracy's true love TESS
Don't pass or hand off KEEP
Down-and-out person's problem ROTTENLUCK
Drink like a fish TOPE
Drives too fast SPEEDS
Egg on GOAD
Expensive violin, briefly STRAD
Fairy tale's last word AFTER
Fiddling Isaac STERN
Flows in a circular current SWIRLS
Gibson garnish ONION
Go's opposite COME
Grandpa's jokes, perhaps STALEHUMOR
Husky docs VETS
In ___ straits DIRE
It can say no to drugs FDA
Kind of proprietor or survivor SOLE
Knuckle under ACCEDE
Large elks WAPITIS
Like many a Poe tale EERIE
Lingering sign of injury SCAR
Long, hard look STARE
Long, narrow crest RIDGE
Makes inquiries ASKS
Mexican fast food TACOS
More than sometimes, in poetry OFT
Motel relative INN
Nabisco cookie OREO
Nestling hawk EYAS
Clues Answers
Nixon's running mate AGNEW
No longer working (Abbr.) RET
Not even-tempered MOODY
Old flames EXES
Onion relative LEEK
Openly confess AVOW
Outer garment COAT
Piccolo cousin FLUTE
Pledge of Allegiance ender ALL
Poet's feet IAMBI
Pulls the plug on ENDS
Put audio tracks together MIX
Putting in order (with "up") TIDYING
Replies of comprehension OHS
River's smaller relative CREEK
Skiing memento for beginners? CAST
Soft Cell's only smash hit record TAINTEDLOVE
Soothe, as worries ALLAY
Succeed financially PROSPER
Suppressor RETARDANT
Sword handles HAFTS
Take the plunge WED
Tell a fib LIE
Third X or O TOE
Tips from butchers? SIRLOIN
Top for some containers LID
Treatment for Parkinson's LDOPA
Trig term COSEC
URL ending for many nonprofits ORG
Very small amount IOTA
Walk purposefully STRIDE
Wanda of comedy SYKES
Well-suited APT
Where a bell summons the workers FIREHOUSE
Window box location SILL
Woodwind instrument OBOE
Yesterday's buzz, today OLDNEWS
Young pain in the neck SPOILEDBRAT
___ Tzu, Chinese philosopher LAO