USA Today - Oct 3 2013

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Clues Answers
"Falstaff" composer Sir Edward ELGAR
"In ___ beginning . . ." THE
"Silent ___" (presidential nickname) CAL
"The Sword in the ___" STONE
"There ___ atheists in foxholes" ARENO
"___ moment!" ("Don't rush me!") INA
1977 whale of a tale ORCA
A number's homophone TOO
Actress Kedrova and singer McCann LILAS
Approach AARP eligibility AGE
Author ___ Louis Stevenson ROBERT
Authorize, as a priest ORDAIN
Be beholden to OWE
Black hues, in old poems EBONS
Boston cagers, informally CELTS
Box office sight LINE
Climber's rocky spots TORS
Compositions for one SOLOS
Crowe's role in "A Beautiful Mind" NASH
Deity of Islam ALLAH
Delicate purple MAUVE
Department with ties MENS
Do a pre-op chore SCRUB
Do for a few months? PERM
Document holder FILEFOLDER
Eastern maidservant AMAH
Fiber-rich substance BRAN
Franklin or potbelly STOVE
Gift on the eleventh day PIPERS
Glasgow boy LAD
Govern errantly MISRULE
Guiding principle TENET
Hair segment TRESS
Halloween time FALL
Hired, as a lawyer RETAINED
In the lowest possible tax bracket NEEDY
In ___ of (replacing) LIEU
Insignificant, as chatter IDLE
It can follow you but not me ARE
Clues Answers
It's mastered in a studio AUDIO
It's usually smaller than a denomination SECT
John of "Crocodile Rock" ELTON
Kind of common stock NOPAR
Kuwaiti noble EMIR
Languish PINE
Laugh syllable HAR
London fellow GENT
Look ___ (explore) INTO
Looking drained ASHEN
Lord, or his subject LIEGE
Made amends (for) ATONED
More out of sorts ILLER
Obscene material SMUT
One way to start a phyte? NEO
Place for a treatment SPA
Plated, in a way ARMORED
Prom queen's wear TIARA
Protection from harm SAFETY
Romantic hopeful WOOER
San Francisco Hill NOB
School exercise involving leaving one's seat FIREDRILL
Several (of) ANUMBER
Short-tailed parrot LORY
Square-dealing ONTHELEVEL
Study intently (with "over") PORE
Subject to limitations FINITE
Sunshine unit RAY
They don't know who you are (var.) AMNESICS
Tip of a boot TOE
Told a fabrication LIED
Vice squad venture RAID
Wes Craven street name ELM
What a crow's-nest is attached to MAST
Witless INANE
Word on Italian street maps VIA
Word with "cord" or "column" SPINAL
Work hard to form, as an agreement HAMMEROUT
___ water (cologne) TOILET