USA Today - Dec 12 2013

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Clues Answers
"Chill out!" BECALM
"Comin' ___ the Rye" THRO
"I, Robot" author Asimov ISAAC
"Now hear ___!" THIS
"Saturday Night Fever" dance genre DISCO
"The ___ upon us" ("Now's the time") HOURIS
"___ we forget . . ." LEST
Aztec language NAHUATL
Barbecue area PATIO
Be a sponge MOOCH
Bit of marginalia NOTE
Breastbone STERNUM
Built like a bulldog STOCKY
Bunny's move HOP
Civil War side UNION
Commencement ONSET
Dance under a stick LIMBO
Desktop item ICON
Edinburgh miss LASS
Extremely high or elevated, as air RAREFIED
Farm equipment name DEERE
From the same tree? AKIN
Galley tool OAR
Good-sized residential property ACRE
Had a little lamb ATE
Hit with an open hand SLAP
Hole in one ACE
How not to run AMOK
Indonesian island BALI
Inner coat layer LINING
Intel collector SPY
It may come before a while ERST
It might come to a boil CYST
Large ocean vessel LINER
Laziest of the deadly sins SLOTH
Many a univ. donor ALUM
Medal of Honor recipient, e.g HERO
Mountain climber's aid PITON
Clues Answers
Mu ___ pork SHU
No longer cooped up UNPENT
Olin or Horne LENA
One taking first steps TOT
Ordering option in a restaurant ALACARTE
Pats baby on the back BURPS
Patty or Selma, to any Simpson child AUNT
Petroleum-packed peninsula ARABIA
Place to be pampered SPA
Popular name for cats with white feet BOOTS
Port between Buffalo and Cleveland ERIE
Pre-stereo records MONOS
Prescription drugs, for short MEDS
Puppy pickup point NAPE
Razzle-dazzle ECLAT
Reason to call the waiter back AFLYINONESSOUP
Reddish-purple PLUM
Secret storage spot CACHE
Short ways to go? RTES
Something absolutely assured ABIRDINTHEHAND
Soprano solo ARIA
Spiked cake BABA
Stems (from) EMANATES
Sugar source CANE
Supplicates BEGS
Swimmer that goes round and round GOLDFISH
Take to the white hills SKI
Tentacle ARM
Toward the stern AFT
Tread-bare BALD
Unimportant MINOR
Vital discovery for Abraham ARAMINTHEBUSH
Waiting room entertainment, for short MAG
When a touchdown is expected, briefly ETA
Whittles away at PARES
Wise leader? OTHER
You'll sleep through it DREAM
___-plié (ballet movement) DEMI