USA Today - Sep 1 2011

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Clues Answers
"Hearty" partner HALE
"Love Me Tender" singer ELVIS
"Pull it," in proofreading DELE
American Express rival VISA
Antitoxins SERA
Artistic banker's boast? IHAVEMONET
Banded rock GNEISS
Botanical climber VINE
Bursting star NOVA
CD-___ ROM
Children's game TAG
Clean SANITATE
Clear a frosted windshield DEICE
Compound with multiple forms ISOMER
Concerto highlights SOLI
Confession of an artistic magician? IUSEDAMIRO
Coral island ATOLL
Days of ___ (times past) YORE
Decorative sewing case ETUI
Distinctive and stylish elegance ELAN
Distributes (with "out") METES
Doofus MORON
Famous ___ (cookie brand) AMOS
Follow furtively TAIL
Formidable foe NEMESIS
Give off, as an odor EMIT
Got a hole-in-one on ACED
Haile Selassie follower RASTA
Hard to comprehend DEEP
Hybrid citrus fruit UGLI
Infuse with bubbles AERATE
It makes a tale stale? ESS
It may jackknife SEMI
Its flag is red, white and green ITALY
Janitor's tool MOP
John in Georgia IVAN
Kind of badge for a scout MERIT
Last word on the silver screen END
Latin 101 verb ESSE
Clues Answers
Lettuce variety ROMAINE
Like some sweatshirts HOODED
Little bump NODULE
Living fence HEDGE
Mai ___ (cocktail variety) TAI
Mine access ADIT
Minuteman III or Peacekeeper, e.g ICBM
Mister turkey TOM
Muslim magistrates CADIS
Narrow victory margin NOSE
New York Bay island ELLIS
Nurses one's drink SIPS
Of the flock LAIC
One with the most life experience ELDEST
Person with a mortgage, e.g LIENEE
Petitions SUES
Pianist at Rick's Café Américain SAM
Place in a race SECOND
Plea from an artistic little girl? IWANTADALI
Position below ambassador ENVOY
Prefix with "lock" and "freeze" ANTI
Realization of an artistic driver on E? INEEDDEGAS
Regatta activity YACHTING
Russian pancakes BLINI
Secluded valley GLEN
Sharp taste TANG
Signal, as a cab HAIL
Splashdown site OCEAN
State categorically AVOW
Stock quote? MOO
Take as a given POSIT
Tel ___-Jaffa AVIV
Tenth of a decathlon EVENT
Trigonometric term TANH
Two tablets, maybe DOSE
Use a piggy bank SAVE
Whiskey's Walker HIRAM
Yawn inducer ENNUI
___ Lanka SRI