USA Today - Oct 5 2009

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Clues Answers
"From the Earth to the Moon" author Jules VERNE
"Trooper" or "medic" start PARA
"You're it!" TAG
Advocate forcefully URGE
Affirmative response YES
Allow temporary use of LEND
Astronomical Major or Minor URSA
Cassius Clay, now ALI
Chatter foolishly PRATE
Clerical quarters MANSE
Cola wars contender PEPSI
Colony of rabbits WARREN
Did some work in the garden WEEDED
Didn't release, as bad news SATON
Divas' big moments ARIAS
Double-curve shape ESS
Egyptian deity ISIS
Electrical engineer Nikola TESLA
First family's address? EDEN
Flower holder VASE
Funnywoman Fields TOTIE
Gets ATTAINS
Give up QUIT
Gramophone successor HIFI
Green or white drinks TEAS
Hamilton of "The Terminator" LINDA
Have ambition ASPIRE
Highly excited AGOG
Impertinent SASSY
In the same place, in footnotes (Abbr.) IBID
Index and middle finger gesture VSIGN
Indoor parking lots GARAGES
Ireland, poetically ERIN
Isn't quite vertical LEANS
It has about 60 percent of the earth's population ASIA
It may be set to capture the game? SNARE
It's between the West Indies and the Azores SARGASSOSEA
Jog one's memory REMIND
Knockdown follower COUNT
Clues Answers
Lady of 26-Down EVE
Ledge beneath a window SILL
Legendary coach Amos Alonzo ___ STAGG
Like a new nonagenarian NINETY
Lions' locks MANES
Male monarch TSAR
Mgr.'s underlings ASSTS
Mica and mispickel ORES
Musical composition for two DUET
Not at all nice MEAN
Olden daggers SNEES
Pay homage to LAUD
Perceives by sight SEES
Pier QUAY
Pro ___ (in proportion) RATA
Pronoun for 54-Down SHE
River in southwestern France ISERE
San ___, Calif. JOSE
Simple EASY
Skiing hazards TREES
Slender double-reed instrument OBOE
Slender gull TERN
SoHo residence, perhaps LOFT
Some sheep EWES
Starbucks orders ESPRESSOS
Tastelessly showy GAUDY
Taunted JEERED
Theater mezzanine LOGE
Toe, in a rhyme PIGGIE
Triangle with two equal sides ISOSCELES
Well-suited to the task ADEPT
Western Alaska native ALEUT
Whopper peddlers LIARS
With "dorsalis," a desert iguana DIPSOSAURUS
Word that stops some trucks? EATS
World Wildlife Fund symbol PANDA
You've seen them before RERUNS
Young hooter OWLET
___ Domini ANNO