USA Today - Mar 5 2016

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Clues Answers
"Is that a ___?" FACT
"Shucks!" DARN
"To Kill a Mockingbird" author LEE
"___ came a spider . . ." ALONG
1958-61 alliance, initially UAR
51-Down in hot water? STEW
Advances against earnings DRAWS
Aitches in Athens ETAS
Army outfit UNIT
Beau's song SERENADE
Belgian river YSER
Bighead's voyage? EGOTRIP
Burned-out post office? CASEOFBLACKMAIL
Calhoun in "Bad Jim" RORY
California Chrome handler GROOM
Chitterlings chef? MANWITHGUTS
Cleopatra's love MARC
Communist-hunting senator Joe MCCARTHY
Composers' acronym ASCAP
Connoisseurs MAVENS
Cotton quantity BALE
Crowd disperser MACE
Cueto stat ERA
Dynamic intro AERO
Eleanor Roosevelt's first name ANNA
Expropriate USURP
Female operatic star DIVA
Floor STORY
Frozen dew HOAR
Going from port to port ASEA
Gum-producing plant GUAR
Gumbo pod OKRA
In concert ASONE
Irish luck CESS
Jazz aficionado CAT
Jazz legend Carmen MCRAE
Jeans fabric DENIM
Legendary captain AHAB
Light greenish-blue AQUA
Clues Answers
Like a newly installed fan belt TAUT
List component ITEM
Melodramatic SOAPY
Mil. hero's decoration DSC
Not in agreement AVERSE
Opposite of paleo- NEO
Orbit segments ARCS
Out of kilter AWRY
Parallel action UNISON
Part of "Q and A" ANS
Patient's cry NURSE
Per ___ (yearly) ANNUM
Plenish EQUIP
Precisely, with "to" ATEE
Projecting edges EAVES
Remains of a no-good pharaoh? CRUMMYMUMMY
Rivera artwork MURAL
Romantic bloom ROSE
Russian brew KVASS
Scottish uncle EME
Sentry's command HALT
Sheepskin holder GRAD
Sneak attack AMBUSH
Squirrel's nest? NUTCRACKERSUITE
Standing out of the water EMERSED
Start for do or due OVER
Sub or Santa chaser ROSA
Sue Langdon's middle name ANE
Take a short-term job TEMP
The very notion IDEA
Three cheers? RAHS
Thrift shop stipulation ASIS
Throat clearer AHEM
Trouper ACTOR
Type of beach NUDE
Want ___ ADS
Wanted poster word ARMED
Word with believer or love TRUE
Word with up, bake or chowder CLAM