USA Today - Mar 24 2016

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Clues Answers
"1812 Overture" sound effect CANNON
"Lohengrin" heroine ELSA
"Lord of the Rings" beast ORC
"Pronto!" on a memo ASAP
"The Good Earth" heroine OLAN
"What ___ is new?" ELSE
4/1 cry APRILFOOL
Abba who wrote "My People" EBAN
Additive-free fare NATURALFOOD
Anthem starter OSAY
Baptism or bris RITE
Bearded Smurf PAPA
Bow-toting god EROS
Breads served with hummus PITAS
Cardboard shipping tube, e.g MAILER
Chemical in Drano LYE
Clearasil target ACNE
Corporate headquarters, say NERVECENTER
Count ___ (Jim Carrey role) OLAF
Crooner Perry COMO
Exorcism performer PRIEST
Fashion monthly ELLE
Feed the kitty ANTE
Glazier's unit PANE
Go ___ (lose it) APE
Grand Ole ___ OPRY
Greedy one's cry MINE
Hannibal the Cannibal LECTER
Has ___ (is connected) ANIN
Have a bug AIL
Hosiery hue TAUPE
In the heart of AMID
Investments for later yrs IRAS
Jib or spanker SAIL
Jury member, in theory PEER
Krupp Works city ESSEN
Lay bricks, maybe PAVE
Leave off OMIT
Like beef jerky DRIED
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Like many college walls IVIED
Mafia bosses DONS
Med lead-in PRE
Meet part EVENT
Minor leaguer, informally FARMHAND
Mudville ___ (Casey's team) NINE
Nobel Peace Prize city OSLO
Noun modifier (Abbr.) ADJ
Operated a loom SPUN
Orchestra section REEDS
Pancakes order STACK
Passed with flying colors ACED
Played like Pan PIPED
Prefix with frost PERMA
Prospector's stake CLAIM
Punxsutawney predictor PHIL
Quixote's creator CERVANTES
Reason for a raise MERIT
Rehab client USER
Rodeo rope RIATA
Sad movie TEARJERKER
Sharkey's sitcom rank CPO
Shop steward's group UNION
Signs to heed OMENS
Slippery sort EEL
Snuffy Smith, to Jughaid UNK
Social standing STATUS
Something worth working hard for NOBLECAUSE
State with confidence AVER
Strategic moves PLOYS
Surfaced, as a road TARRED
Ten-year periods DECENNIA
The Dead Sea, really LAKE
Use a surgical beam LASE
Works of Sappho ODES
Writer Umberto ECO
Zap with a stun gun TASE
___ buco OSSO
___-G suit ANTI