USA Today - Dec 16 2008

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Clues Answers
''The Son of the Wolf'' author JACKLONDON
Absolute worst (with ''the'') PITS
Agree with, as sentiments ECHO
Athlete from St. Mary's College GAEL
Barrie portrayer in 2004 DEPP
Beatnik's home PAD
Browning's ''Rabbi Ben ___'' EZRA
Buttoned blade EPEE
Canteen EATERY
Chopin output ETUDE
Classic music hall ODEON
Cool guy DUDE
Coordinated (with ''in'') SYNC
Cutting ___ (vanguard) EDGE
Double features, for some CHINS
Energy type SOLAR
Enter carefully (with ''in'') EASE
File, as a complaint LODGE
Film detective ACEVENTURA
Filthy and run-down GRUNGY
For two, in Paris ADEUX
French silk center LYONS
Graceless RUDE
Habituate to something undesirable INURE
Hebrew school YESHIVA
In all honesty TRULY
Italian brandy GRAPPA
Legendary loch NESS
Letters under TUV OPER
Like the girls of TV GOLDEN
Loses luster DIMS
Made independent WEANED
Man with a golden touch MIDAS
Measure of pickled peppers PECK
Minimal amount IOTA
Montana specialty PASS
Moolah in Malta EURO
MPG rater EPA
Name of fame from Maine STEPHENKING
Clues Answers
Newsstand debut of 1937 LOOK
Niche filler, perhaps URN
One way to get to the top? CLAW
Oolong alternative PEKOE
Opposite of unter UBER
Ottoman potentates (Var.) AGHAS
Place for vipers? NEST
Place to ham it up? DELI
Prefix with ''meter'' or ''plane'' ALTI
Pseudonym in detective stories ELLERYQUEEN
Pungent SPICY
Reason there's no money in your pocket? HOLE
Recurring feeling DEJAVU
Renewal type URBAN
Reveal or pretend LETON
Reynolds film ''Rent-___'' ACOP
Risky DODGY
Rush hour traffic descriptor STOPGO
Scooter in the White House LIBBY
Sea peril FLOE
Slangy building boss SUPE
Smear with grease or mud DAUB
Soldier's club USO
Spend time in a hammock, e.g. LAZE
Star of ''The Big Sleep'' BOGART
Stippling stand EASEL
Surgeon General with a beard KOOP
That certain something ELAN
They have pull OXEN
Thing in court RES
Treaty of Rome org. EEC
True partner COEQUAL
Wanders through cyberspace SURFS
Wet/dry finisher VAC
Word of surrender UNCLE
Words with ''step'' or ''bet'' ONIT
You may touch them in the gym TOES
___ depth finder SONIC
___ tetra (aquarium fish) NEON