USA Today - Dec 23 2009

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Clues Answers
"Anytown, ___" USA
"The Man Who Fell to Earth" director Nicolas ROEG
Add a little color to TINT
Adult insect IMAGO
Affectionate term for a parent MOMMYDEAREST
Allegro ___ (music direction) ASSAI
Anthropologist or lake MEAD
Art with pieces of glass MOSAIC
Australia's ___ Rock AYERS
Badly injure MAIM
Basic Latin verb ESSE
Basilica section APSE
Being risked ATSTAKE
Bit of slung mud SLUR
Brief interval MOMENT
Buddhist concept KARMA
Character who regularly locks himself in jail OTIS
Cinco de Mayo party FIESTA
Computer drive insert CDROM
Crook with a safe job? YEGG
Cushiness EASE
Dear companion? NEAR
Desertlike ARID
Food in Exodus MANNA
Former Russian leaders TSARS
Get dramatic with a door SLAM
Go on ___ (carouse) ATOOT
Gumbo ingredient OKRA
Had a purpose in mind MEANT
Hag CRONE
Honor-society letter PHI
Intangible qualities AURAS
It forms igneous rock MAGMA
It might be off the wall? CAROM
Lady of the casa DONA
Longfellow bell town ATRI
Lunches EATS
Lying, e.g. SIN
Martin Lawrence character BIGMOMMA
Clues Answers
Memento of the past RELIC
Mimic with wings MYNA
Mint bar INGOT
Nancy creator Bushmiller ERNIE
Octogenarian's decade EIGHTIES
Old shipping allowances TRETS
One hundred square meters ARE
One thing rodents do GNAW
One-third of Freud's psyche SUPEREGO
Palindromic patriarch DAD
Permitted by law LICIT
Prized mounts ARABS
Provide capital for SEED
Radiation dosages REMS
Render airtight CAULK
Revered name in missionary work MOTHERTERESA
Roads used to get there ROUTE
Sci-fi author Arthur CLARKE
Secreting organ GLAND
Simmered dishes STEWS
Sources of reel income CINEMAS
Start of a treasure hunt instruction GOTO
Stooge with bangs MOE
Storybook monster OGRE
Stubble locale CHIN
Study intensely CRAM
Suffix with "social" or "urban" ITE
Take off in a hurry SCOOT
Terrorized street of film ELM
The whole song and dance? ACT
Theater boxes LOGES
They're put up in a fight DUKES
Topic of political debate ISSUE
Tune-belter Elliot MAMACASS
Well-dressed fellow FOP
Winslet or Capshaw KATE
Zodiac sign ARIES
___ mode ALA
___ out (barely make do) EKE