USA Today - Sep 17 2013

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Clues Answers
"Comin' ___ the Rye" THRO
"Rags-to-riches" writer ALGER
Aviates FLIES
Benefit from planting REAP
Birch tree ALDER
Blubber source WHALE
Bridget Jones' claim to fame DIARY
Burglary HEIST
Charitable gift ALMS
Check word PAYEE
City near Manchester LEEDS
Communion bread holder PATEN
Crosby, Stills & ___ NASH
Cushion site SOFA
Depression-___ glassware ERA
Dress for the modest MAXI
Drop the ball, e.g ERR
Education org PTA
Even worse things to say? FIVELETTERWORDS
Expenditures OUTGO
Extra-large semi? NINETEENWHEELER
Fifteen percent of a bill, perhaps TIP
Financial obligation DEBT
Fortuneteller SEER
From the top, again ANEW
Giant copier APE
Glowing review RAVE
Goblet part STEM
Govt. branch concerned with planes FAA
Grove unit TREE
Harness parts HAMES
Having a worse prognosis ILLER
Heads to the last roundup DIES
Hebrew calendar month ADAR
Home and garden? EDEN
Jackson ___, Wyo HOLE
Like marbled meat VEINY
Like some winter weather SEVERE
Clues Answers
Lines for a movie SCRIPT
Living room furniture piece, perhaps DIVAN
Memory failure LAPSE
More voluminous cowboy accessory? ELEVENGALLONHAT
Nudger's joint ELBOW
Octopus features ARMS
On the house FREE
One of several Norwegian kings OLAV
Overcome in battle DEFEAT
Page or LuPone PATTI
Party giveaways, in slang SWAG
Republic of Yemen city ADEN
Resigner before Richard SPIRO
Ripped apart TORE
Road construction cones PYLONS
Rug choice ORIENTAL
Rulers of Qatar and Kuwait EMIRS
Sesame, for one STREET
Sherman Hemsley sitcom AMEN
Shoving match escalation MELEE
Slithery slayers ASPS
Smoking and nonsmoking, e.g AREAS
Some were louses as spouses EXES
Southernmost of the Marianas GUAM
Subtracted by LESS
Sudden plunge NOSEDIVE
Supreme Court Justice Kagan ELENA
Terse negative NOPE
Toolbox item PLIERS
Track contest RACE
Traveled a curved path ARCED
Trueheart of "Dick Tracy" TESS
Usually deleted email SPAM
Without work IDLE
Woodworking slot DADO
Word after "paper" or before "joint" CLIP
Word following "theater" or "opera" GOERS
Zodiac lion LEO