USA Today - Dec 21 2012

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Clues Answers
"Aw" follower GEE
"Blue Sky" Oscar winner Jessica LANGE
"Pease porridge in ___ . . ." APOT
"___ circumstances beyond . . ." DUETO
"___ do" (faint praise) ITLL
A connected twin ENG
Accommodating place INN
Artist de Toulouse-Lautrec HENRI
Bald eagle's kin ERNE
Baseball great Musial STAN
Be a slacker LOAF
Be a whiner PULE
Brief moment of time (Abbr.) NSEC
Carrere of "True Lies" TIA
Castor-bean protein RICIN
Cause, as an explosion SETOFF
Certain African capital TUNIS
Claim ALLEGE
Commerce pact negotiated by Pres. Clinton NAFTA
Critter with a scut DEER
Dairy cow type HOLSTEIN
Dangerous marine creature ORCA
Do a farmer's job TILL
Enter the front lines MARCHINTOBATTLE
Evade SIDESTEP
Explorer Ericson LEIF
First first name in Olympic gymnastic tens NADIA
Fleur-de-___ (Quebec symbol) LIS
Flim-___ (cons) FLAMS
Four-footed friends PETS
Fully stretched TAUT
Gathers, as a harvest REAPS
Indy 500 leaders PACESETTERS
Itinerary abbr ETA
Judge over 1995's most prominent trial ITO
Kind of wave ALPHA
Knock for ___ (astonish) ALOOP
La Scala offering OPERA
Clues Answers
Like many a thesis defense ORAL
Mentalist's claim ESP
More current NEWER
More thought-provoking DEEPER
Mount Etna's locale SICILY
No longer invisible SEEN
Not factual UNTRUE
One may be handed down RULING
One with drawing power? ARTIST
Patricia of "A Face in the Crowd" NEAL
Pencil stump NUB
Pincushion alternative ETUI
Plato's T TAU
Poke holes in, perhaps AERATE
Prefix with "classical" NEO
Proceed gingerly WALKONEGGSHELLS
Prop on the course TEE
Pursue to a conclusion FOLLOWUP
Rent payer LESSEE
River seen from Windsor Castle THAMES
Seventh-day activity REST
Skirt crease PLEAT
Slangy refusal NAW
Spinal cord cell NEURON
Stop pushing so hard LETUP
Striped bass, e.g ROCKFISH
Talk and talk and talk YAP
Thing with a wheeled heel SKATE
Tip for a blackjack dealer TOKE
Turns in a coupon REDEEMS
Unit of work ERG
Victorian and Romantic ERAS
Whig opponents TORIES
Wine county NAPA
Yellow Muppet BERT
Young bear CUB
___ mode ALA
___-di-dah LAH