USA Today - Jul 17 2009

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Clues Answers
"Beat it!" SCRAM
"Better you ___ me!" THAN
"Christina's World" painter WYETH
"From ___ shining . . ." SEATO
"Have You Ever ___ the Rain?" SEEN
"He's ___ nowhere man . . ." (Beatles) AREAL
"It was the ___ I could do" LEAST
"Never ___ sentence with a preposition" ENDA
"No ifs, ___ or buts!" ANDS
"One day only!" event SALE
"That is," to Caesar IDEST
"___ it?" (query at a door) WHOIS
20-Across inventory AMMO
A couple of shillings TWOBOB
Admiral type REAR
All ___ up (beside oneself) HET
Ballpark figures? ERAS
Basket material OSIER
Be introduced to MEET
Bismarck's home (Abbr.) NDAK
Charge carriers IONS
Comics caveman OOP
Control tower's "A" ALFA
Crunchy tortilla treats TACOS
Distant AFAR
Do some work in human resources HIRE
Employ USE
Employee's final remark? ASTUPIDIDEABOSS
Equine ankle HOCK
Exam for the college-bound PSAT
Final remark of wedded bliss? YOULOOKFATHONEY
Furtive movement SIDLE
Go ___ winner (retire on top) OUTA
Grenoble's river ISERE
Heroin, on the street SKAG
Hollered YELLED
Homer Simpson's dad ABE
It's fit to be tied LACE
Clues Answers
Jacob's first wife LEAH
Jerome Hines or Ezio Pinza BASSO
Kookaburra, e.g. BIRD
Lennon hit on "Double Fantasy" WOMAN
Less adulterated PURER
Like Falstaff OBESE
Like ___ out of water AFISH
Magazine stores? ARSENALS
McCourt memoir TIS
Measure of newspaper space LINAGE
Missouri tribe OSAGE
Most restless ANTSIEST
Moves like a comet ARCS
Mustard plant WASABI
Nervous laugh TITTER
Newshawk's asset? NOSE
Not suitable UNAPT
Novel conclusion (Var.) EPILOG
Obligation DEBT
Oblong mechanical pieces CAMS
Passenger's final decision? NOSEATBELTFORME
Peregrine penthouse AERIE
Pre-K kid TYKE
Prefix for "plasm" or "morph" ECTO
Radio station on skid row? WINO
Sibling, familiarly BRO
South African Dutchman BOER
Square root of IX III
Summer coolers ADES
This puzzle's theme FAMOUSLASTWORDS
Tiny bit IOTA
Type of string or horn SHOE
Whiskered clapper SEAL
Wildcats' inst. KSU
Wrench type ALLEN
WWII milit. command ETO
Yucky couple? WYES
___-fi SCI