USA Today - Mar 4 2016

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Clues Answers
"As ___" (letter closing) EVER
"Sesame Street" Muppet ERNIE
"The Joy of Signing" subj ASL
"___ a Grecian Urn" ODEON
"___ you the clever one!" ARENT
Abet's partner AID
Actress Spelling TORI
Address abbr AVE
Archie's "dingbat" EDITH
Atomic number 96 CURIUM
Beatle with sticks STARR
Become active STIR
Before of yore ERE
Benz attachment ENE
Biblical beasts of burden ASSES
Big wheels at sea HELMS
Black-and-white cookie OREO
Botanical joints NODES
Canonized femme, briefly STE
Carpenter's shaping tool LATHE
Certain Arab OMANI
Chicken's lack? NERVE
Chopin compositions ETUDES
Cleans, as a counter WIPES
Commercial center in Venice RIALTO
Comparatively weighty HEAVYASLEAD
Data or facts INFO
Desert plants SAGUAROS
Distribute (with "out") METE
Dull and lifeless BLAH
Face the day RISE
Feeling of fury IRE
Fuss ADO
Get a dance started TAKETHELEAD
Horne or Dunham LENA
Houdini's real last name WEISS
In ___ (occurring naturally) VIVO
Intense feeling of love ARDOR
Clues Answers
Kidney-shaped nut CASHEW
Ladybugs, e.g BEETLES
Like a new candle UNLIT
Like ___ in the face (insulting) ASLAP
Literally, face-to-face VISAVIS
Marina ___ Rey, Calif DEL
Mature, as wine AGE
Nest in a high branch AERIE
One who decorates ADORNER
Pleasant to be around NICE
Poet's jet-black EBON
President Van Buren MARTIN
Quiet companion PEACE
Ragged mountain ridge ARETE
Rib TEASE
Roundish ear projection LOBE
Salad cheese FETA
Seal relative WALRUS
Slender woodwind OBOE
Small amount of color TINGE
Software developer's target ENDUSER
Some breads or whiskeys RYES
Stainless product STEEL
Stat for a pitcher ERA
Takes for granted PRESUMES
The Masters posting LEADERBOARD
They are self-centered EGOTISTS
Tina of TV and film FEY
Tools used in the Stone Age NEOLITHS
Top gymnastics rating TEN
Ultimate object ENDALL
Vert.'s counterpart HOR
What a starlet wants to be LEADINGLADY
Wheat bundle SHEAF
When doubled, a Teletubby LAA
Wickerwork branches OSIERS
Word with "concert" or "party" GOERS
Young goat KID