USA Today - Jan 28 2009

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Clues Answers
''. . . that try ___ souls'' MENS
''Jeepers Creepers'' lyricist MERCER
''Waiting for the Robert ___'' ELEE
Barber belt STROP
Battery measures VOLTS
Beijing 2008 org. IOC
Bigfoot's stat? EEE
Boasted CROWED
Cattle units, briefly HDS
Cause to grow thin or weak MACERATE
Celebratory round dance HORA
Certain column ONES
Certain diving bird AUK
Cincinnati players REDS
Comes after ENSUES
Comparison preposition THAN
Country meadow LEA
Debuts, as a movie OPENS
Desert bordering the Sinai NEGEV
Eschews the bell KNOCKS
Evaluate ASSESS
Filmdom's ''In the Heat of the Night'' city SPARTA
Fishes, in a way TROLLS
Flexible, socketwise ACDC
German article DER
German painter Hans HOLBEIN
Get ready for use SETUP
Godiva, for one LADY
Group of Drs. HMO
Highest rank in the USMC GEN
His was David EISENHOWER
His was Delano ROOSEVELT
His was Grover CLEVELAND
Infatuated GAGA
Irritate IRK
Islamic chief (Var.) AMEER
It must be in the genes DNA
Its anagram is a synonym of itself YEA
Clues Answers
J.F.K. debater in '60 RMN
Land inside South Africa LESOTHO
Lawrence's peninsula ARABIA
Lees DREGS
Like a sombrero's brim BROAD
Like moderately dry champagne SEC
Like tae kwon do KOREAN
Ltr. afterthoughts PSS
Madagascan primates LEMURS
Meal REPAST
Mend HEAL
Most senior ELDEST
Must NEEDTO
Nervous reaction TIC
NYC's original subway line IRT
Passover month NISAN
Past and present, e.g. TENSES
Plant swelling EDEMA
Prince Valiant's wife ALETA
Produced on Broadway STAGED
Puzzle theme, with 37-Across PRESIDENTS
Ring legend ALI
Scorpionfish SCULPIN
See 17-Across MIDDLENAMES
Squad that squelches swindlers BUNCO
Tennis call LET
Thick soup POTAGE
Tree-lined promenades ALAMEDAS
Walk with weariness PLOD
Where some flies land MITT
Wined and dined REGALED
Wool finisher, commercially ITE
Word between two dogs EAT
Word repeated before ''again'' TRY
Word with ''a soul'' NARY
Word with ''jerk'' or ''slapper'' KNEE
Yardstick (Abbr.) STD
___ Plaines, Illinois DES