USA Today - Dec 15 2012

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Clues Answers
"Rule, Britannia!" conductor ARNE
Adolescent TEEN
Archie Bunker's wife EDITH
Arrest STEM
At a great distance AFAR
Be the banker LOAN
Bit of theater litter STUB
Brother and husband of Isis OSIRIS
Burlesques APES
Butler of note RHETT
Camelot fixture ROUNDTABLE
Categorize SORT
Closing in NEAR
Commutes RIDES
Couch potato's accessory TRAY
Dutch-born reformer Jacob August RIIS
Eliel's son EERO
End of a series you know well ZEE
Endangered Saharan beast WHITERHINO
Expressions of contempt BAHS
Figures of speech TROPES
Fire proof? ASH
Fired up again, as a lantern RELIT
First Family, 1909-1913 TAFTS
First name in gymnastics NADIA
Fishhook connector SNELL
Former NBA rival ABA
Gets an edge on HONES
Glib talk PATTER
Hall of famer Roush EDD
Holy Roman emperor OTTO
Hunger sensations PANGS
Indian frocks SARIS
Israeli money SHEKEL
It's part of "The Divine Comedy" DANTESINFERNO
It's taken if saved SEAT
Italian wine region ASTI
Jordan's alma mater NORTHCAROLINA
Kett of the comics ETTA
Clues Answers
Kind of cat? COPY
Kirk bench PEW
La Douce, in film IRMA
Lifts the spirits ELATES
Like human heads and cup trophies EARED
Lint catcher TRAP
Literary collections ANAS
Luxuriate BASK
Martin Luther King Jr.'s award NOBELPRIZE
Member of a Platte River native people OTO
More or less ABOUT
Observatories do it SCAN
Old English letter EDH
One with more than 15 min. of fame CELEB
Oriole's home, perhaps ELM
Owing INDEBT
Pack down, as dirt TAMP
Proofreader's save STET
Quaff with sushi SAKE
Raid the fridge NOSH
Relating to a cultural group ETHNIC
Rhythm BEAT
Self-defense method KARATE
Sesame Street denizen ERNIE
Shadow TAIL
Shimon of Israel PERES
Sir Guinness ALEC
Sniggler's pursuit EEL
Tennyson's "Geraint and ___" ENID
Tern's cousin GULL
The going rate? SPEED
Touchdown follower POINTAFTER
Transit map markings STOPS
Tuck's partner NIP
Unit of loudness SONE
Used car trailers? LOTS
WWII battle site STLO
Your highness SIRE
___ firma TERRA