USA Today - Oct 4 2012

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Clues Answers
Accolades KUDOS
Beautiful and graceful girl PERI
Before-long connection TOO
Belief in God based on rational evidence DEISM
Biochemical blueprint GENETICCODE
Breathing problem APNEA
Brief details SPECS
Ceiling on insurance increases RATECAP
Church seating unit PEW
Common tree or street name ELM
Count ending? ESS
Cousin of "blah blah blah" ETC
Energy VIGOR
Envoy's residence EMBASSY
European high spot ALP
Extremely accurate timekeeper ATOMICCLOCK
Feeds, as pigs SLOPS
Fine wool MERINO
First position? FETAL
Galley with three tiers of oars TRIREME
Get overly personal SNOOP
Gift receiver DONEE
Hotfoot it SCOOT
Icon on Irish tombstones CELTICCROSS
In the middle of AMONG
Internal-combustion engine MOTOR
K-___ (big name in records) TEL
Language in the Thai group LAO
Large reference book TOME
Leave in, to an editor STET
Lifeboat lowerer DAVIT
Like some gems FACETED
Lindros or Idle ERIC
Lyre-playing Muse ERATO
Make scholarly corrections to EMEND
Marvel's Stan LEE
Master's and bachelor's DEGREES
Morticia Addams' cousin ITT
Muslim religious leader IMAM
Clues Answers
Nautical detector SONAR
Navigational aids MAPS
Need correcting ERR
Not made up TRUE
Not portbound ATSEA
On, as a kerosene lamp LIT
One of the Gabors EVA
Opposite of socially smooth AWKWARD
Place in office ELECT
Poem of exaltation ODE
Prior to, to a poet ERE
Proclaims, old-style SAYST
Replacement turf SOD
Rising star COMER
Runway surface TARMAC
Santa ___, Calif ANITA
Self-importance EGO
Short and sweet TERSE
Show penitence ATONE
Simple connector AND
Small, sandy island CAY
Soak in water, as hemp RET
Some doughnut fillers CREAMS
Some meaty cookout bits RIBLETS
Start of an elementary lesson ABC
Stops at a space station DOCKS
Street tumult RIOT
Suffix with "Boston" IAN
Take a crack at TRY
Tax prep pro CPA
Tertiary Period epoch EOCENE
Tot's training site POTTY
Town hall's cousin CIVICCENTER
Toy soldier material, sometimes TIN
Trapper's job SNARING
Under the surface BELOW
Unforgettable time ERA
Unkempt and run-down SEEDY
Without bells and whistles PLAIN