USA Today - Oct 6 2012

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Clues Answers
"61 in '61" slugger Roger MARIS
"Coal Miner's Daughter" star Loretta LYNN
"To ___ is human . . ." ERR
"___ Eat Cake" (Gershwin musical) LETEM
"___ Well That Ends Well" ALLS
''So, there you are!'' AHA
''The NeverEnding Story'' author Michael ENDE
''We're finished here'' TIMETOGO
''___ helpless as a kitten up a tree'' IMAS
Access to other floors STAIRS
Affirms ASSERTS
Avoirdupois alternative TROY
Banjo ridge FRET
Batman's hideout CAVE
Bible book ACTS
Biblical Hebrew kingdom JUDAH
Bovine bellows MOOS
Canon fodder? TONER
Castle feature TURRET
Certain soft drink CREAMSODA
Chain item KEY
Dele revokers STETS
Dundee don'ts NAES
Eastern housemaid AMAH
Evening parties SOIREES
Eyelid irritations STYES
Fussy couple? ESSES
Garish Broadway sign type NEON
German article EINE
Gomer Pyle's peers PFCS
Grammy winner Blige MARYJ
Handles roughly MAULS
Hawaiian harbor HILO
Hedge unit SHRUB
Implicit TACIT
Kettle sound SSSS
Kindergarten outlay MILKMONEY
Legal claims to property LIENS
Like a good steak TENDER
Clues Answers
Like a yenta NOSY
Longest time EON
Luncheonette list MENU
Lying facedown PRONE
Manilow's "___ It Through the Rain" IMADE
Mend a uniform SEW
Metric measure GRAM
Mme. Bovary EMMA
Modernized REDONE
Monarchs, e.g BUTTERFLIES
Nursery packets SEEDS
Ocean flier ERNE
Olympic measure METER
Originate START
Packers fans CHEESEHEADS
Put into practice ENACT
Reason for a paste in the mouth? TEETH
Seed appendage ARIL
Signs the check, in a way ENDORSES
Slouches SLUMPS
Someone who is highly skilled MAVEN
Sound from the dog pound ARF
Standard of excellence IDEAL
Storage spaces SHELVES
Sunday utterance AMEN
Teachers' favorites PETS
TGIF part ITS
To avoid the alternative ORELSE
Tokyo's former name EDO
Took a load off SAT
Tuning fork's output TONE
Vivid twosome? VEES
Vogue's newsstand neighbor ELLE
Wee hour TWOAM
When it's saved, it's taken SEAT
Wing-prayer link ANDA
Word in a New Year's tune SYNE
___ Maria (coffee liqueur) TIA
___ Picchu, Peru MACHU