USA Today - Dec 31 2008

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Clues Answers
''At the ___ Core'' (1976 film) EARTHS
''Mr. Pitiful'' singer Redding OTIS
''Psych'' finish OSIS
''Rag Mop'' brothers AMES
''The Office'' network, once BBC
''___ Grows in Brooklyn'' ATREE
A park may provide it SHADE
Alphonso D'Abruzzo, but you can call him Alan ALDA
Austin Powers verb SHAG
Baseball feature SEAM
Betsy's banner STARSANDSTRIPES
Bit puller REIN
Blow up? BLOAT
British emblem LION
Churlish sort LOUT
Commando's action RAID
Contributor of big bucks FATCAT
Country founded in 1922 USSR
Darkroom supply TONER
Desdemona's handkerchief, e.g. PROP
Easy gait LOPE
Eatery chain PLANETHOLLYWOOD
Elsinore inhabitant DANE
Energy converters SOLARCELLS
Entry enabler KEY
Equine shade ROAN
Extent AREA
Fair mark CEE
Fit to be tried? SANE
Foil alternative EPEE
For two, in music ADEUX
Fragrant poisonous shrub OLEANDER
Geological formation BUTTE
Having great value DEAR
Irascible TESTY
It behaves best with a good paddling CANOE
It may be found around the mouth DELTA
It might be created by accident DENT
Clues Answers
It's fit for a queen TIARA
Its cousin is stout ALE
La ___ (French explorer) SALLE
Lock not on a door TRESS
Low-voiced singers BASSI
Man the bar TEND
One way to send pkgs. USPS
Orange juice feature PULP
Palindromic French pronoun ELLE
Passion of a noted phantom OPERA
Pipsqueak TWERP
Plant scholar BOTANIST
Prepares for the holidays SHOPS
Primer pet SPOT
Printer's copy, briefly REPRO
Prohibit, legally ESTOP
Rank between viscount and marquis EARL
Reflexive pronoun ITSELF
Role for Ford SOLO
Said ''Not guilty,'' e.g. PLED
Sailor or comedian SINBAD
Sign designed to attract crowds SALE
Snack machine inserts, often ONES
Sojourn STAY
Some people take a shine to it SHOE
Sound that may turn heads PSST
Start of a phrase of regret ALAS
Stroke APOPLEXY
Sudden transition LEAP
Tennyson's title LORD
They have extremely high gravitational fields BLACKHOLES
Threat ending ELSE
To whom property is transferred ASSIGNEE
Well briefed about UPON
Well-traveled passage PATH
Windy City politician DALEY
Word in a Kubrick title SHUT
___ Ark NOAHS