USA Today - Oct 21 2011

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Clues Answers
"Northeast" ending ERN
"___ Said" (Neil Diamond hit) IAMI
Adoring poems ODES
Afro-Cuban dance RUMBA
Allegro ___ (very fast, on a score) ASSAI
Ark. neighbor TENN
Away from the wind ALEE
Bathroom sponges (Var.) LOOFAS
Carol opening OCOME
Catch sight of DESCRY
Classes for airline employees? HIGHEREDUCATION
Clears out the unwanted WEEDS
Considering everything ALLTOLD
Cookie favorite OREO
Corbeled-out window ORIEL
Dorm dwellers COEDS
Erstwhile pesticide DDT
Existed at one time WERE
Eyes flirtatiously OGLES
Feature of a tied shoelace LOOP
Fillable bread PITA
Full of oneself SMUG
Georgetown athlete HOYA
Gets inquisitive ASKS
Go gadding about ROAM
Gridiron grp NFL
Had a lead foot SPED
Hired goon THUG
Hockey great Bobby ORR
Horne who started at the Cotton Club LENA
Intelligence org.? MENSA
Iron-pumper's pride ABS
It befalls fallen fruit ROT
Jane created by Charlotte Bronte EYRE
Kind of pool or wave TIDAL
Like a penthouse POSH
Like some wits or cheeses SHARP
Listlessness ENNUI
Martin of "Martin" LAWRENCE
Clues Answers
Monet's prop EASEL
Murphy of Hollywood EDDIE
Name in a Kinks song LOLA
Noncommittal one's territory MIDDLEOFTHEROAD
Old word for zero AUGHT
Overstudious one WONK
Paranormal showman Geller URI
Part of the Aloha State OAHU
Pastor's last word AMEN
Pitchers' stats ERAS
Prefix with "cone" or "Cat" SNO
Pronounced SAID
Provides with a quality ENDUES
Pulled the trigger SHOT
Rhythmic heart contraction SYSTOLE
Romanian's neighbor SERB
Rosary component BEAD
See 25-Across ODOR
Select a smaller goal LOWERONESSIGHTS
Small songbird FINCH
Spelling of TV TORI
Spiked, as punch LACED
Start for "sphere" HEMI
Sub-unit of a foot TOE
Supply and demand subj ECON
Surgery reminder SCAR
Sweet, buttery pastry DANISH
Temporary grant LOAN
The opposite of failed miserably ACED
Tobacco residue TAR
Tough time HARDSHIP
Two performers DUO
Utilize school LEARN
Versailles-to-Paris dir ENE
Whack, as a fly SWAT
Winning tic-tac-toe line OOO
Without escort ALONE
X-ray's cousin MRI
___ kwon do TAE