USA Today - Apr 12 2013

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Clues Answers
"Beat it!" SCRAM
"I'll be ___ of a gun!" ASON
"One-hoss" vehicle SHAY
"Phantom" actor Chaney LON
"You don't ___ Superman's cape" (Croce lyric) TUGON
"___ the night before Christmas . . ." TWAS
A scythe may cut one SWATH
Actress Portman NATALIE
Akeelah's contest BEE
All over again ANEW
Another conifer LARCH
Aries image RAM
Autograph hound's offering PEN
Be haunted by, perhaps RELIVE
Beagle biter FLEA
Book after Acts ROMANS
Breakfast bread TOAST
Cauterize SEAR
Charles II's mistress Nell GWYN
Chinese fruit (Var.) LICHI
Chuck Connors' Winchester RIFLE
Clothe TOG
Coarse, as a comic RAW
Colonial insect ANT
Common emetic IPECAC
Concerning punishment PENAL
Conifer FIR
Dillinger chaser GMAN
Distinctive time ERA
Drunkard SOT
DVD precursor VHS
Egyptian that killed Cleo ASP
Ending for "glob" or "mod" ULE
Eyelid sores STYES
Feature of increasingly frigid temperatures MERCURYDROPPING
From the beginning ABINITIO
Gaping mouth MAW
Grassland unit ACRE
Clues Answers
Grow broad WIDEN
Highlands hillside BRAE
Hillary was one, once SENATOR
Hurting INPAIN
In spite of, in short THO
Instruction books MANUALS
Internet journal BLOG
It goes "bang!" in a courtroom GAVEL
It's often left hanging ART
Letter writer's afterthoughts PSS
Lightbulb units WATTS
Lose freshness GOSTALE
Melbourne meat EMU
Misfortunes ILLS
Mock TEASE
Momentous EARTHSHATTERING
More resolute FIRMER
Mormon church letters LDS
Old hags CRONES
On the protected side ALEE
One of a dozen at the grocery store EGG
Pirate support, stereotypically PEGLEG
Poppy drug OPIUM
Pressing a tort SUING
Rebel RISEUP
River horses HIPPOS
Scottish "No!" NAE
Start of a director's cry LIGHTS
Statue of limitations? VENUSDEMILO
Summit ACME
Sun-shunning creatures of myth VAMPIRES
This evening, casually TONITE
Time's co-founder LUCE
Topic of discourse (var.) THEMA
Try for a better deal HAGGLE
Web-footed birds GEESE
With cunning SLYLY
___ Cong VIET