USA Today - Aug 5 2009

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Clues Answers
"Be ___" ("Help me sweetie") ADOLL
"Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker MOORE
"Monkey see, monkey do" practitioner APER
"Stat" alternative ASAP
"Up and ___!" ("Rise and shine!") ATEM
"Vietnam" suffix ESE
2000 runner-up GORE
3,300,000 square-mile desert SAHARA
Affirm solemnly AVER
Apology prompter ERROR
Banned fruit spray ALAR
Barnyard mama MARE
Bogart's "Maltese Falcon" role SPADE
Book before Romans ACTS
Brief brouhaha SPAT
Bring ashore LAND
Cause injury to HARM
Circle of light HALO
Circle section ARC
Conservative faction OLDGUARD
Court reporter, briefly STENO
Dark black EBON
Difference between a baker's dozen and a dozen ONE
District WARD
Dodge, as a question EVADE
Dried and withered SERE
Drive out by force EXPEL
Dumpy bar DIVE
Fancy, as clothes DRESSY
Frogman's acronym SCUBA
Gradual decline EBB
Greek dawn deity EOS
Honda model CIVIC
House features EAVES
Important name in U.S. history ADAMS
It carries blood from the left ventricle AORTA
Lacking required skills INEPT
Light patterned cotton MADRAS
Like a yellow banana RIPE
Clues Answers
List ender ETC
Long-tailed rodent RAT
Mail for Arthur? ARMOR
Making change? AMENDING
Mine find ORE
On the ocean ASEA
One who gets the biggest part? MOVIESTAR
Operation PROCEDURE
Outcast PERSONANONGRATA
Possess OWN
Primordial matter of the universe YLEM
Public path ROAD
Put in plain text DECODED
Saltpeter (Var.) NITRE
Seek someone's favor WOO
Seinfeld's old network NBC
Sticky stuff on a trunk SAP
Take up again, as an acquaintance RENEW
Test episode for a TV series PILOT
The way a criminal works MODUSOPERANDI
Thing, in legalese RES
Thurston Howell III type SNOB
Tops off the cake ICES
Type of kick SCISSOR
Understood TACIT
Unexpected aid DEUSEXMACHINA
Unexpected pleasure TREAT
Vampy wear BOA
Vehicle weights sans cargo TARES
VIP on the Hill SEN
What Marcie calls Peppermint Patty SIR
With ___ in sight NOEND
Word between two dogs EAT
Yellow fever mosquito AEDES
You may have seen them before RERUNS
You might give him the business SON
___-Magnon CRO
___-mo (replay feature) SLO
___-Wan Kenobi OBI