USA Today - Mar 5 2009

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Clues Answers
''Along ___ Spider'' CAMEA
''The Air Up There'' African MASAI
Alien territory OUTERSPACE
Animator's creation, informally TOON
Apollo approval AOK
Bawdy SALTY
Beginning to mature? PRE
Bell invention PHONE
Buff BUILT
Capital of Colombia PESO
Care packages, e.g. AID
Catherine II, for example EMPRESS
Chinese Chairman MAO
Column base PLINTH
Cousin of a Missouri OTOE
Cut off, as a branch LOP
Did a Cuban dance MAMBOED
Early August baby LEO
Early Turner project CNN
Elicit an ''ooh'' from AWE
Ex-senator Sam NUNN
Footless APODAL
Fort near Monterey until 1994 ORD
General manager of the Red Sox EPSTEIN
Gives off EMITS
Grainfield color AMBER
Group that doesn't allow yo-yos MENSA
Guileful SLY
Hard name in acting? JEREMYIRONS
Hard name in boxing? ROCKYMARCIANO
Hard name in music? NEILDIAMOND
Hard name in the news? STONEPHILLIPS
Head of Britain? LOO
High school outcast NERD
Homophone of mine output OAR
It means the same as 4-Down ANTE
It's found in a foundry MOLD
It's not always exact SCIENCE
Jazzman Zoot SIMS
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Johnny U's team COLTS
Little hellion IMP
Market watcher, briefly SEC
Minn. neighbor ONT
Not going bankrupt SOUND
Pastoral verse (Var.) IDYL
PBS program provider, sometimes BBC
Punjab princess RANI
Put a name to ENTITLE
Racetrack information broker TOUT
Serenade Heidi? YODEL
Seventh heaven ECSTASY
Shrill cry YELP
Slovakian capital BRATISLAVA
Some primetime TV SITCOMS
Son of, in Hebrew names BEN
Start to drop? EAVES
Stickball setting LOT
Stop running so hard LETUP
Sudden spell of activity SPASM
Suffix for ''when'' and ''what'' EVER
Surrenders, as territory CEDES
Tell's was swell AIM
The IRS requires them SSNS
The sun in Seville ELSOL
Tie for a toff ASCOT
Time for local news, often TENPM
Total expenses, informally NUT
Warriors org. NBA
Wilson of ''Starsky & Hutch'' OWEN
Wish one could take back RUE
Without assistance SOLO
Word for a possessive woman? HER
Word with ''state'' or ''great'' SEAL
WWII Japanese prime minister TOJO
You will often appear to the left of this ARE
___ barrel (trapped) OVERA
___ tai (rum drink) MAI
___-Therese, Quebec STE