USA Today - Apr 15 2014

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Clues Answers
"Author unknown" (Abbr.) ANON
"Snow White" miner DOPEY
"When all ___ fails, read the directions" ELSE
"Why ___ I think of that?" DIDNT
"Your majesty" SIRE
"___ Jail" (Monopoly directive) GOTO
A la ___ (ordered separately) CARTE
Archaic exclamation EGAD
Auditions, essentially TESTS
Auto pioneer OLDS
B flat or C sharp NOTE
Ball-hitting game POOL
Barely made, as a living (with "out") EKED
Black or fire gem OPAL
Boot jingler SPUR
Both sides of noon? ENS
Brought action against SUED
Bunch of bushes THICKET
Catch red-handed NAB
Chicken part LEG
Clear and shrill CLARION
Convertible alternative SEDAN
Cried like a baby MEWLED
Dickens' Heep URIAH
Difficult duty ONUS
Each companion EVERY
Easy, swinging gait LOPE
Employ a silver tongue ORATE
Eon segments AGES
Failure of a firecracker DUD
Fancy word for intermission ENTRACTE
Fermented Hawaiian dish POI
Fifth-largest planet EARTH
Fit for a queen REGAL
Flinched RECOILED
Frequent index items NAMES
Hullabaloos ADOS
Instrument held between the knees HARP
It can be cast IRON
Clues Answers
It reported on Sputnik TASS
It's actually a rodent PRAIRIEDOG
Kind of ranch DUDE
Letters from your folks? RNA
Like dragons, unicorns and centaurs MYTHICAL
Like some wintry road conditions SLUSHY
Make indistinct BLUR
Many repel fleas DOGCOLLARS
Miscellaneous collections OLIOS
More than run-down DECREPIT
Nautical command AVAST
Not the smartest extinct bird DODO
Occupied with INTO
One of the Four Corners states UTAH
Orchestra's "tuning fork" OBOE
Part of a ship's bow HAWSE
Philosopher ___-tzu LAO
Pine product RESIN
Pre-television entertainment RADIO
Pull along HAUL
Remove, to an editor DELE
River into the North Sea ELBE
Roaring '20s, e.g ERA
Sandler of films ADAM
Sarcastic remarks DIGS
Spiked, as punch LACED
Sticks in the billiard room CUES
Stray calf DOGIE
Styles of One Direction HARRY
Term of respect MADAM
The past, tomorrow TODAY
The Santa ___ winds ANA
The smartest among us (var.) GENII
Treat for a trick, sometimes DOGBISCUIT
Tries to hit BATS
TV "Playhouse" name PEEWEE
Vessel for couples ARK
Yo-yo trick WALKTHEDOG
___ Cucamonga, Calif RANCHO