USA Today - Aug 2 2012

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Clues Answers
"Gone with the Wind" locale TARA
"Macbeth" eye donor? NEWT
"Norma ___" (Sally Field film) RAE
1899-1902 war participant BOER
Action figures, e.g TOYS
Alternative to a ski lift TBAR
Apiary resident BEE
Arabian Sea gulf OMAN
Astronomical shadow UMBRA
Book of maps ATLAS
Building wing shape, sometimes ELL
Burning with passion ARDENT
Chance event FORTUITY
Classic Judy Garland song OVERTHERAINBOW
Commits a blunder ERRS
Debussy's "La ___" MER
Deciduous tree OAK
Diminish WANE
Easily influenced PLIANT
Essence from rose petals ATTAR
Fabulous, long ago OUTOFTHISWORLD
Female lobsters HENS
Fields of interest AREAS
Five-pillared faith ISLAM
Give the cold shoulder SNUB
Hairstylist's obstacle? EAR
Handel's "Messiah," e.g ORATORIO
Hot roofing material TAR
Hot to ___ (eager to begin) TROT
Hurricane center EYE
Iran's official language FARSI
It has more than 5,000 feet MILE
It may be financial or legal AID
It may involve raised voices SPAT
Kind of bag for leaves? TEA
Land of the rainy plain SPAIN
Lasagna or linguine PASTA
Lemur's hangout TREE
Make a big effort STRIVE
Clues Answers
Melonlike tropical fruit (Var.) PAPAW
Mops decks SWABS
Not-fully-tested version BETA
Old crowned head TSAR
Opera staple ARIA
Overdue payment ARREAR
Paid athlete PRO
Pastoral place LEA
Pastry named for a French emperor NAPOLEON
Pharmaceutical-approving org FDA
Pious GODLY
Plant yielding a cathartic drug SENNA
Plumed avian in Florida EGRET
Plunked oneself down SAT
Pocket bread PITA
Punjabi queen RANI
Quick to get angry TESTY
Raw fish dish SUSHI
Requiring medical attention ILL
Resistant to persuasion UNSWAYED
Seed covering ARIL
Shakespeare's river AVON
Site for stained-glass windows APSE
Slow the progress of IMPEDE
Soapmaking material TALLOW
Soviet newspaper PRAVDA
Start out SETOFF
Stringed instrument of India SITAR
Suitable for the occasion APT
Take part in a hunger strike FAST
Tarnish, as a reputation TAINT
Tentacled animal POLYP
Tiny louse NIT
Toothbrush type SOFT
Wedder of Lennon ONO
Where the irrational go OFFTHEDEEPEND
Writing class assignment ESSAY
Youngstown's state OHIO
___ out a living (barely scrapes by) EKES