USA Today - Aug 10 2007

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Clues Answers
Ancient mall AGORA
Applicant's offering RESUME
Asian sash OBI
Backpacker, e.g. HIKER
Bad time for Julius IDES
Be less than 100 percent AIL
Big-time celebration GALA
Birch kin ALDER
Birthplace of Chang and Eng SIAM
Bungling INEPT
Burgundy buddies AMIS
Cause a chuckle AMUSE
Champignons MUSHROOMS
Christmas time in NYC EST
Chromosome passenger GENE
Cotelettes de mouton LAMBCHOPS
Epinards SPINACH
Estimator's phrase ORSO
Expected to arrive DUE
Fictional Christie and Karenina ANNAS
French GI POILU
Greasy spoon EATERY
Great reviews RAVES
Holbrook of ''The Firm'' HAL
Huitres OYSTERS
Irritate ANNOY
Is sibilantly challenged? LISPS
It's measured in kwh ELEC
Its first is for fools APRIL
K.P.'s milieu MESS
Knight's wife LADY
Large herbivore HIPPO
Learning method ROTE
Like a library book LOANED
Like most American films RATED
Long-horned grasshopper KATYDID
Losing athlete's demand, sometimes REMATCH
Many miles away AFAR
More courageous GAMER
Clues Answers
Ms. Truehart of ''Dick Tracy'' TESS
Not total PARTIAL
Ocean phenomenon TIDE
Oklahoman SOONER
Pertaining to the second most common element in the Earth's crust SILICIC
Planting tool DIBBLE
Pleistocene epoch nickname ICEAGE
Portable music player IPOD
Prima donna DIVA
Purpose AIM
Rice dish (Var.) PILAU
Rickenbacker, e.g. ACE
Sanctions OKAYS
Scandalous gossip DIRT
Second word in many fairy tales UPON
Sheltered promenade STOA
Sheriff Andy Taylor's boy OPIE
Sister city of St. Petersburg TAMPA
Smelting refuse SLAG
Soft palate resonance SNORE
Specialty AREA
Spot in the mer ILE
Stiff drink BELT
Straw in the wind OMEN
Sudden pull YANK
Superior of a monastery ABBOT
Supreme Court Justice Fortas ABE
Surrenders, as territory CEDES
This puzzle's theme FRENCHMENUITEMS
Tilts LISTS
Type of roast RUMP
Type of tank GAS
Verve BRIO
Vesuvius debris ASH
Victim one of murder one ABEL
Virginia Woolf piece ESSAY
Was visibly awestruck GAPED
Wind up END
Word with ''hour'' and ''job'' RUSH