USA Today - Oct 27 2009

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Clues Answers
"___ crazy or what?" AMI
"___ Was a Rollin' Stone" PAPA
Actress Raines ELLA
Ali's boxing manager Dundee ANGELO
All bets are off after this RAID
Almond-shaped OVAL
AM/FM set RADIO
Angler's decoy LURE
Author Paretsky SARA
Biting fly GNAT
Brainstorm IDEA
British rule in India RAJ
California/Nevada lake TAHOE
Capsize UPEND
Certain green tea HYSON
Cockeyed ASKEW
Coincide partially OVERLAP
Complicated situations SNARLS
Cotton bundles BALES
Cravings YENS
Creative ARTISTIC
Deep-sea fishing aid SONAR
Destroy the self-confidence of ABASH
Did laps, perhaps SWUM
Dillon or Damon MATT
Dim sum dip sauce SOY
Dismounted ALIT
Dispose of SCRAP
Do in SLAY
Doctor's motto word HARM
Draws forth ELICITS
Dry gully WADI
Exorbitant interest rate USURY
Face covering VEIL
Fairy tale monsters OGRES
Fajita topping GUACAMOLE
First name in quarterbacks BRETT
Fit to be tried? USABLE
Floundering ASEA
Foal's father SIRE
Former hotelier Helmsley LEONA
Fr. holy women STES
Fracas SETTO
Geologic division ERA
Glowing personalities? AURAS
Great smoky mountain? ETNA
Gulf east of Djibouti ADEN
Has the third of three squares SUPS
Haul from a heist LOOT
Hawaiian feast LUAU
Helium or hydrogen ELEMENT
Hurricane-season bestowal NAME
Imperfectly closed, as a door AJAR
Implied but unspoken TACIT
In love with oneself VAIN
In need of stitching TORN
Indian noble, once (Var.) RAJA
Industrious insect BEE
Infamous name of spydom MATA
Instrument with seven pedals HARP
It's full of hot air DRYER
Jack Russell sounds YIPS
Jenny, e.g. ASS
John of little distinction DOE
Kind of noodle RAMEN
Kind of pickle DILL
Kind of shark MANEATING
Lairs DENS
Largest Greek island CRETE
Like a met poker bet SEEN
Linda Ellerbee, signing off ANDSOITGOES
Lobby successfully SWAY
Lone Ranger, signing off HIYOSILVERAWAY
Magazine piece, sometimes ESSAY
Maritime distress signal SOS
Minx VAMP
Miss Gulch's nemesis TOTO
Clues Answers
Moved slowly CREPT
Nephew of Abel ENOS
Nobleman's address MILORD
Not all there DAFT
NYC's Ed KOCH
One of the three musical B's BACH
One way to close a letter YOURSTRULY
One way to close a letter BESTWISHES
One way to close a letter SINCERELY
One way to close a letter ALLMYLOVE
One who opposes ANTI
Opposite of 63-Across STET
Overcharges FLEECES
Pained expression MOUE
Pigeon-pea plant, e.g. DHAL
Plantation of fiction TARA
Poet Teasdale SARA
Policy postscript RIDER
Products inside boxes? AREAS
Proofreader's marking DELE
Proofreading symbol CARET
Pungent garnish AIOLI
Qing dynasty, by another name MANCHU
Qts. and pts. AMTS
Racetrack boundary RAIL
Refugee's request ASYLUM
Relaxing retreats SPAS
Removes from power OUSTS
Research facility (Abbr.) INST
Revival structure TENT
Right-angled pipe joints ELLS
River's end ESTUARY
Romanian monetary unit LEU
Roy Rogers, signing off HAPPYTRAILS
Rules REIGNS
Sari wearer RANI
Secret society in Chinatown TONG
Selling liquor WET
Shifty person SLYBOOTS
Shows fallibility ERRS
Skillet material IRON
Small wooded hollow DINGLE
Smooth FLUID
Snagglepuss, signing off EXITSTAGERIGHT
Something donned GARB
Sony's rival RCA
Sophocles drama AJAX
Soul singer Moore MELBA
Sported WORE
Squirrel away a lot AMASS
St. Patrick's Day slogan start ERIN
Stand for a painting EASEL
Start of some Spanish place names LAS
Steamy place SAUNA
Stir to anger RILE
Stirrup setting EAR
Straighten out, in a way UNSNARL
Suddenly bright stars NOVAE
Tally on a gun handle NOTCH
Third monastic hour TERCE
Three-way joint TEE
Turgenev heroine ELENA
Turkey's neighbor SYRIA
Types of foils EPEES
Vegas numbers ODDS
Verdi's "D'amor sull'ali rosee," e.g. ARIA
What avengers get EVEN
Willing GAME
Winter wear MITTENS
Wizards' competitors NETS
Woodstock-era do SHAG
Word before and after "a" VIS
Work over Time EDIT
World currency org. IMF
___ go bragh ERIN
___ Island Red RHODE
___ Miguel (largest of the Azores) SAO