USA Today - Oct 27 2008

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Clues Answers
''. . . for a ___ pittance'' MERE
A Four Corners state UTAH
Actuary's calculations RISKS
Arizona city MESA
Artist with a Blue Period PICASSO
Banff National Park beast ELK
Bangladesh capital (Var.) DACCA
Circle section ARC
Coming-out parties? DEBS
Cop with a cockatoo BARETTA
Deals with the strain COPES
Did a doggie trick SATUP
Do some waiting SERVE
Ellipse OVAL
Gal with a snout SOW
Geological stretch EON
Gets concrete results? PAVES
Great Plains grassland PRAIRIE
Gung-ho, when doubled RAH
In-flight info, in brief ETAS
It has a darkness setting TOASTER
It has a point AWL
Juan de Fuca and Magellan STRAITS
King of the road HOBO
Like an outdated license EXPIRED
Like some gestures OBSCENE
Little rascals IMPS
Lowest deck ORLOP
Made simpler (with ''down'') DUMBED
Measure of power WATT
Medical advice, often REST
Money replaced by euros PESETAS
More than just suspicious of ONTO
Most achy or angry SOREST
Mothers and daughters SHES
New York area UPSTATE
Nielsen output RATINGS
Clues Answers
One thing holding up dinner? TABLELEG
Opposite of deplete AMASS
Overabundance GLUT
Overnight deposit DEW
Polliwog, e.g. LARVA
Predator in the sea ORCA
Prominent Yul Brynner feature PATE
Protection up front BREASTPLATE
Ravenous poet? POE
Removal of some locks HAIRCUT
Ring engagements BOUTS
Rollick or frolic ROMP
Roosevelt Room area WESTWING
Salchow alternative AXEL
Site of some Sargents TATE
Some find it hard to carry TUNE
Somers squeezed it THIGHMASTER
Something to take on a trip PHOTO
Superlative suffix EST
Tended to, as a sprain ICED
They go on and off RAMPS
They have ''steady'' company DATER
They're beside sides ENTREES
Tongue's locale SHOE
Trade barbs SPAR
Trilogy finale III
Twist and squeeze WRING
Undying ETERNAL
Verbal elbow PSST
Verbs convey them ACTIONS
What we all want to pay LESS
Where the incus bone is EAR
With whom Moses went back to Egypt AARON
Wool gatherer SHEARER
Word between two dogs EAT
Word with ''pig'' or ''cast'' IRON
Worry obsessively STEW