USA Today - Dec 29 2009

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Clues Answers
"From ___ to Mozart" (1981 film) MAO
"I ___ you one" OWE
"In ___ of flowers . . ." LIEU
"Messenger" molecule RNA
"Of Thee I Sing" lyricist Gershwin IRA
"Tell Mama" singer James ETTA
A long way off AFAR
A maternal relation ENATE
According to PER
Actor Ferrigno LOU
Adverb with "optimistic" OVERLY
Am for more than one? ARE
Amino, boric or citric ACID
Barbecue hole PIT
Before, to Shelley ERE
Blood-loving worm LEECH
Boglike MIRY
Bray beginner HEE
Brewery opening? MICRO
Buckwheat dish KASHA
Burglar ROBBER
Caught by a lasso ROPED
Certain functionary TOWNCLERK
Checker's dance TWIST
Clay crock OLLA
Countryside cylinder SILO
County north of Limerick CLARE
Cut back PARED
Did naught IDLED
Dolly the clone, for one EWE
Double-___ (surprised reaction) TAKE
Dracula's bedtime DAWN
Erstwhile Russian rulers TSARS
Eyebrow shape ARC
Figure-skating jump LUTZ
Former hotelier Helmsley LEONA
Gangster chaser GMAN
Good heads of hair MANES
Guesses wrong ERRS
Clues Answers
Has a crush on ADORES
High parts FALSETTOS
Holdup HEIST
Insincere ladies' men HEARTBREAKERS
Its point is to make holes AWL
Lavender shrub LILAC
Lila Quartermaine on "General Hospital" ANNALEE
Metric system prefix KILO
Middle Eastern faith ISLAM
More slippery, in a way ICIER
Muscat dweller OMANI
New Testament letter EPISTLE
Nickelodeon character Funnie DOUG
Not perfectly round OVATE
Parks and Lahr BERTS
Petroleum giant AMOCO
Place of business, for many DESK
Plain writing PROSE
Put the metal to the metal WELD
Rue Morgue culprit APE
Rule LAW
Set edge-to-edge ABUT
Slothful OTIOSE
Software purchaser USER
Some human parasites LOUNGELIZARDS
Spreads leaves for drying TEDS
Sweet-sounding DULCET
Taste stimulus ODOR
Tavern drink: mai ___ TAI
The "E" in REO ELI
They have many pickup lines SMOOTHOPERATORS
Tiny quantities IOTAS
Twittering with rumors ABUZZ
Two-year-old sheep TEG
Under siege BESET
Wake from sleep AROUSE
Weapon swung by a gaucho BOLA
Word with "up," "out," or "down" LET
You might drop one at a cocktail party NAME