USA Today - Apr 17 2013

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Clues Answers
"As you" or "as it" follower WERE
"To be," to Brutus ESSE
"___ contendere" (no contest plea) NOLO
10-year prison sentence, in slang DIME
Absorbs (with "up") SOPS
Adjustable dress feature HEM
Adventure novel's protagonist HERO
Aerodynamically designed SLEEK
Alumnus's keepsake YEARBOOK
Another way to spell 33-Down CZAR
Beaver endeavor DAM
Becomes bogged down MIRES
Beyond recharging DEAD
Blessing BOON
Box-seating area LOGE
Cauterize cattle DEHORN
Come clean ADMIT
Couples DUADS
Covered, as with gold GILT
Creme-filled chocolate cookie OREO
Dakota, once (Abbr.) TERR
Damaged, as a fender DENTED
Dead Sea artifact SCROLL
Defunct airline TWA
Delete from memory ERASE
Devious maneuver PLOY
Diamond covering TARP
Do a pre-op chore SCRUB
Doesn't hog SHARES
Egyptian cobras ASPS
Exude slowly OOZE
Facility EASE
Fall heavily into a chair PLOP
Flower garden plots BEDS
Gets on film TAPES
Grassy plain LLANO
Gumbo pod OKRA
Hankerings YENS
Clues Answers
Have trouble deciding SEESAW
Heron or flamingo WADER
High rocky hills TORS
Holy See resident POPE
Joyous hymn PAEAN
Mata Hari, for one SPY
Microscopic swimmer (var.) AMEBA
Middle of a sleeve ELBOW
Model wood BALSA
More than paroled GRANTEDCLEMENCY
Muslim prince EMIR
Mythical deity who creates discord LOKI
Napped leather SUEDE
Not perfectly upright ATILT
Packed away ATE
Pelted with certain ovoid objects EGGED
Plan to catch a criminal STAKEOUT
Pole with a blade OAR
Pop up, as a question ARISE
Pre-Soviet royalty TSAR
Prop for Rembrandt EASEL
Radiant glows AURAS
Ripken, the Baltimore legend CAL
Shrek, for one OGRE
Sierra ___ LEONE
Snip a snap CROP
Somewhat wet DAMP
Sorceress who aided Jason's quest MEDEA
Springtime wear, for some ladies POLKADOTDRESSES
The embryo of an invention IDEA
The written word PROSE
Tito Puente music style SALSA
To boot ASWELL
Trust in (with "on") RELY
Turkish bath SAUNA
Type of citizenship DUAL
What hoops dangle from PIERCEDEARLOBES
___ Bator, Mongolia ULAN