USA Today - Aug 6 2009

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Clues Answers
"Hmm" provoker ENIGMA
"L" homonym ELLE
"Maude" creator Norman LEAR
"We Don't Need Another ___" (Tina Turner) HERO
Act as a henchman ABET
Act speechlessly MIME
Active European volcano ETNA
Belief CREDO
Benjamin Disraeli, to Beaconsfield EARL
Body check? OGLE
Boyfriends of yore SWAINS
Certain works by Horace ODES
Clay, after a conversion ALI
College student's secondary focus MINOR
Coming-out partiers DEBS
Conference room fixture TABLE
Confuse ADDLE
Counterpart to 28-Across PROS
Coyote state, briefly SDAK
Crusty cheese BRIE
Culprit, to a cop PERP
Don't go fast? EAT
Dry, white Italian glassful SOAVE
Eagle in the night sky AQUILA
Elvis recorded for them RCA
Employed USED
Falco of "Nurse Jackie" EDIE
Famous Mohegan chief UNCAS
Ford model featured in "Starsky & Hutch" TORINO
Frivolous lovers FLIRTS
Glowing piece of coal EMBER
Gullets MAWS
Hawaii state bird NENE
Hurricane of 1992 ANDREW
Inspiration for "Mamma Mia!" ABBA
Iron ___ (rust) OXIDE
Judy Garland, ___ Frances Gumm NEE
Legislative add-ons RIDERS
Like a twice-used cigar RELIT
Clues Answers
Man in blue, often UMP
MOSAIC EARLYWEBBROWSER
MOSAIC LIKEBIBLICALLAW
MOSAIC DECORATIVETILES
Moses was spotted on it NILE
Nobelist Wiesel ELIE
Nothing more than MERE
Novelist Cather WILLA
Owl's question? WHO
Part of an old heating system BOILER
Pre-election event DEBATE
Prepared cotton for shipment BALED
Prickly-plant mass BRIER
Ratio involving a hypotenuse SINE
Reasons not to, for short CONS
Recoil in distaste CRINGE
Refinery matter SLAG
Ruffles alternative FRITOS
Runners carry them SLEDS
Sailors TARS
Sao Paulo has one TILDE
Set JELL
Sheltered side LEE
Sound from a toaster? CLINK
Sprite PIXIE
Surf 'n' turf component STEAK
Tenpenny, for one NAIL
The three in an inning? ENS
Title for Elizabeth or Beatrix QUEEN
Tree hugger? BARK
Turkish bath feature STEAM
Vaulted alcoves APSES
When repeated, a Kennedy nickname JOHN
Whitaker role in a 2006 film AMIN
Withdrawn orchard spray ALAR
Woodland deities SATYRS
Word before someone snaps HIKE
Writer Dominick DUNNE
Yellow-furred comics dog ODIE