USA Today - Jan 18 2011

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Clues Answers
"1001 Nights" bird ROC
"Final" or "formal" prefix SEMI
"I could go on . . . " ETC
"Nana" author Emile ZOLA
"Not a Pretty Girl" singer DiFranco ANI
"Yes, Captain!" AYEAYE
"___ Howdy Doody time!" ITS
Achilles' weak point HEEL
Animals' mouths MAWS
Asia's direction, on many maps EAST
At close range POINTBLANK
Avoid a trial, say SETTLE
Beat out, as grain THRESH
Bolt securer NUT
Bulletin board insert PUSHPIN
Casanova type ROUE
Cincinnati pro RED
Cylindrical and tapering TERETE
Do a biology assignment DISSECT
Doing nothing IDLE
Dracula creator Bram STOKER
Drain, as a bank account EMPTYOUT
Electronic junk mail SPAM
Fix front? PRE
Fleabag RATTRAP
Former U.S. capital NYC
Get, as a radio broadcast TUNEIN
Gets back old skills RELEARNS
Got ready to drive (with "up") TEED
Grand in scale EPIC
Gun, as an engine REV
Has a little bit of TASTES
Helped with the laundry IRONED
Hole in a tennis shoe EYELET
Holiday song title starter AULD
Hundred Acre Wood name WINNIE
Iacocca of auto fame LEE
It may be added to a contract RIDER
Clues Answers
It might make you a sweater? TOIL
Japanese cartooning style ANIME
Large amount of money PILE
Like freakish coincidences EERIE
Little lie FIB
Loveseat's larger relative SOFA
Make into law ENACT
Making less sense INANER
Meal with matzo SEDER
Military operation's start ZEROHOUR
Mountains crossed by Hannibal ALPS
Nonflyer of Australia EMU
Numbered musical work OPUS
Old-time radio part VACUUMTUBE
On the jet ABOARD
One of the Bobbseys NAN
Overhead sheet material ACETATE
Overseas counterpart of NAFTA EEC
Peak ACME
Poem of praise ODE
Preparing carrots, perhaps DICING
Profusely polite GENTEEL
Rich cakes TORTES
Sack RAVAGE
Sendak's "Where the Wild Things ___" ARE
Somewhat, in music POCO
Terry cloth garb ROBES
Track-and-field events MEETS
Undeserving of a padded cell SANE
Veto OVERRULE
Welfare factor NEED
Welsh ___ (cheesy dish) RAREBIT
What a creed is composed of TENETS
What limericks do RHYME
Wimbledon divisions SETS
Word before a conclusion ERGO
Word often seen before "recycle" REUSE
Yoko ___ ONO