USA Today - Aug 1 2012

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Clues Answers
"Agnes of God" actress Tilly MEG
"Fathers and Sons" author Turgenev IVAN
"___ making myself clear?" AMI
About which the Earth turns AXIS
Act amateurishly EMOTE
Ancient Greek thinker PLATO
Av follower on the Hebrew calendar ELUL
Backup at the lumber mill LOGJAM
Bawls CRIES
Before, before we used "before" ERE
Boxer's prefight psych job STARE
Brief fracas SETTO
Brooks or Blanc MEL
Burn off feathers or hair SINGE
California wine valley NAPA
Campus mil. grp ROTC
Chess pieces, informally MEN
Chicano MEXICANAMERICAN
Common canine MUTT
Courthouse activities TRIALS
Deadlocked EVEN
Decent, upright sort MENSCH
Deep sleep stages REMS
Demolition stuff TNT
Deserve through work EARN
Enticing type LURER
Eye flirtatiously OGLE
Finished OVER
Fry quickly SAUTE
Gossipy gal YENTA
Hilton Head Island, for one RESORT
If all ___ fails . . ELSE
Incision aftermath SCAR
It begins with Canada Day JULY
It's crossed in time? TEE
Jaunty PERT
Judy Garland's command MEETMEINSTLOUIS
Kind of cracker SALTINE
Clues Answers
Kite eater in "Peanuts" TREE
Knightwear ARMOR
Legendary loch NESS
Make impure TAINT
Maximally dry SERE
Mercury or silver METALLICELEMENT
Mimic APE
Mythical birds ROCS
New York Bay island ELLIS
Nonwindy side, nautically ALEE
Olive stuffing PIMIENTO
On a clipper SAILING
One curl or press, e.g REP
One in mid-spring LEAPER
Party balloon filler HELIUM
Pass the breaking point SNAP
Pennsylvania harbor city ERIE
Pet ___ (grievance) PEEVE
Shoelace's end AGLET
Snack of Spain TAPA
Some bridge seats EASTS
Somewhat safe swords EPEES
Spider web, essentially TRAP
Starchy edible root TARO
Summer Palace residents, once TSARS
Superman's logo ESS
They go to blazes HOSES
Traditional stories LORE
Tramcars, variantly TROLLIES
Two-dimensional calculation AREA
Urania, e.g MUSE
Vehicle seen at the Winter Olympics LUGE
Virgo's mo., mostly SEPT
Went off, as a bell RANG
Wetland MARSH
What an angry person needs to blow off STEAM
Wheelchair access RAMP
Yawner's feeling ENNUI