USA Today - Mar 21 2015

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Clues Answers
"Desire Under the ___" ELMS
"Island of the Blue Dolphins" author ODELL
"Wheel of Fortune" choice SPIN
A kid might skip it ROPE
Abner's mother PANSY
Auto-dealership offer LEASE
Back-to-health process, briefly REHAB
Be suspended HANG
Betting setting RENO
Boston-born Thurman UMA
Capture a crook NAB
Carpet layer's calculation AREA
Celtic priest DRUID
Certain Louisiana native CAJUN
Common link AND
Completely inoperative KAPUT
Contraction with "No. 1" WERE
Council Bluffs locale IOWA
Currency abroad EURO
Dad, in the boonies PAW
Diminutive beings of folklore ELVES
Diving bird SMEW
Eastern housemaid AMAH
Emperor after Claudius NERO
Errand CHORE
Espouse ADOPT
Feeling concern CARING
Food factor AROMA
Gymnast's feat FLIP
He's in a cast THESPIAN
Hothouse containers PLANTERS
Infamous czar IVAN
It's a real mesh NET
Jason of the NBA KIDD
John Wayne oater HONDO
Johnson of "Laugh-In" ARTE
Join the rat race WORK
Lake, city or canal ERIE
Clues Answers
March by 36-Across, or a daily newspaper (with "The") WASHINGTONPOST
Meeting room prop, perhaps EASEL
Min. fraction SEC
Not as antiquated NEWER
Oscar de la ___ RENTA
Outdo ONEUP
Pie part CRUST
Ponder MULL
Prepare to kiss (with "up") PUCKER
President's "theme song" HAILTOTHECHIEF
Props for Chaplin CANES
Prototypical victim ABEL
Quaffer's choice ALE
See 19-Across RAE
Shelter LEE
Solo on film HAN
Some run on gas OVENS
Spline SLAT
Sport WEAR
Squeeze the Klaxon, e.g HONK
Statements in a pack? LIES
Stomach woe KNOT
Superior to ABOVE
Swim like a dog PADDLE
Switchboard innards WIRING
Tall and slender RANGY
Teaches well, perhaps CONNECTS
Teasdale of poetry SARA
The March King JOHNPHILIPSOUSA
Thick, waterproof fabric LODEN
Tierra ___ Fuego DEL
Tumbler GLASS
Verbal elbow in the ribs PSST
Vet OLDTIMER
Warming of relations THAW
With 35-Across, a Sally Field film NORMA
Word with Ketchum or Wednesday ASH
Word with living or dead END