USA Today - Aug 7 2009

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Clues Answers
"Step on it!" HURRY
A number's homophone TOO
Animal on Michigan's flag ELK
Aquarium bottom-feeder LOACH
At great speed AMAIN
Bar pivoted about a fulcrum LEVER
Being, to Ovid ESSE
Capital of Belarus MINSK
Cement ingredient LIME
Chlorophyll plant ALGA
Confused skirmish MELEE
Connections LINKAGE
Daffy Duck has one LISP
Decorative pitcher EWER
Dentist's command SPIT
Doctrine TENET
Drive a thief away? ABET
Even the score REPAY
Female pronoun SHE
Feudal lord or his subject LIEGE
First-rate AONE
Foot attachments TOES
Forward the check REMIT
Highest point APEX
Horse height measure HAND
How potatoes may be served AUGRATIN
In a post-caffeine state ALERT
Kind of worker PARTTIME
Lacking company LONE
Lake in west-central Africa CHAD
Lessen the value of CHEAPEN
Like the air around Niagara Falls MISTY
Major divisions of geological time ERAS
Make visible UNCOVER
Middle Eastern ruler EMIR
Morsel for a meal? OAT
Most acidic TARTEST
Much-admired sandwich? HERO
Mudville goat CASEY
Clues Answers
Mustered roll? ROSTER
Not a picky specification ANY
Not at all, slangily NOHOW
One who exhorts URGER
Online meeting places CHATROOMS
Opposite of a hog SHARER
Painter's plaster GESSO
Photo shoot phrase SAYCHEESE
Pig's sound OINK
Podium-pounding speech TIRADE
Pupillary sphincter location IRIS
Resort hotels SPAS
Roaring Twenties nightspot SPEAKEASY
Scandinavian NORSE
Site of a pyramid scheme? EGYPT
Small and then some TINY
Small bottle VIAL
Something intended to deceive HOAX
Stickler PEDANT
Tense EDGY
The first two periodic table entries GASES
They're worlds apart? ALIENS
Those around the Round Table SIRS
Times spent in military service TOURS
Turns away, as the eyes AVERTS
Unit of RAM MEG
Voice above baritone TENOR
Water cooler? ICE
Web development site? ATTIC
Wedding-day downpour, perhaps OMEN
Well-___ (prosperous) TODO
What it doesn't hurt to do ASK
Where some hot air passes over waves? TALKRADIO
Windsor or sheet bend KNOT
Wintry mo. DEC
Word used to admit defeat UNCLE
Wrecking-ball swinger CRANE
You may tie one on in Tokyo OBI
___ mater ALMA