USA Today - Mar 23 2009

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Clues Answers
''Stick'' or ''dash'' leader SLAP
''The Simpsons'' character MARGE
Audition READ
Bailiwick AREA
Blood measurement UNIT
Campfire treat SMORE
Carrying a grudge SORE
Chimney buildup SOOT
Danish shoe brand ECCO
Dinghy or wherry ROWBOAT
Dirt that gets spread RUMOR
Do for a few months? PERM
Dowdy dresser FRUMP
Envelope abbr. ATTN
Family man DADDY
Fellow student CLASSMATE
Fine steed ARAB
First of September? ESS
Formal agreement PACT
Former Israeli prime minister PERES
Gain deservedly EARN
Gallup specialty POLL
Gawked at OGLED
Gessler's nemesis TELL
Hard on the ears LOUD
Hash house DINER
Head-butts RAMS
Intense anger IRE
Lawn game CROQUET
Left at sea PORT
Makeovers REDOS
Man of the hour HERO
Margin of error PLUSORMINUS
Nicholas II, for one CZAR
No longer a minor OFAGE
Oklahoma oil hub TULSA
Olympian Lewis CARL
One and only SOLE
Org. with pull ADA
Clues Answers
Outer limit EDGE
Pained exclamation OHMAN
Part of a suit CARD
Pasta that looks like rice ORZO
Popular mall hang-out FOODCOURT
Prefix with ''political'' GEO
Quite sizeable LARGEASLIFE
Radio switch AMFM
Rank RATE
Render unconscious KAYO
Ride for a bride LIMO
Salad bar utensil TONGS
Salty assents AYES
Sandbar SHOAL
Seismic event QUAKE
Sevilla's land ESPANA
Shots caller BOSS
Show partiality LEAN
Sierra ___ MADRE
So far ASYET
Some are bright, some are dumb IDEAS
Some kind of nerve OPTIC
Steakhouse request MEDIUMRARE
Tabloid topic UFO
Take different paths PART
That which is not done NONO
The old you THEE
There are eight in a gal. PTS
They're hardly hogs MOPEDS
Type of Bible in a hotel GIDEON
Type of ray GAMMA
Unmemorized remark ADLIB
Urban social site STOOP
Villain's forte EVIL
What Earth is, after all SMALLWORLD
Where dirty work is done? GARDEN
Without SANS
Word on a penny UNUM
___ Scotia NOVA