USA Today - Aug 24 2009

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Clues Answers
"American ___" IDOL
"Bucks" intro MEGA
"Farmer in the ___" (children's song) DELL
"Foucault's Pendulum" author Umberto ECO
"Pad" or "port" lead in HELI
"Raging Bull" boxer LAMOTTA
"Star Wars: Episode III Ö Revenge of the ___" SITH
34th pres. IKE
440 yards, to a track runner LAP
A mouse may help you get there WEBSITE
Annapolis mascot GOAT
Bana of "Troy" and "Munich" ERIC
Beaten LICKED
Big bookseller BORDERS
Biological egg source OVARY
Black Friday event SALE
Blackthorn berry SLOE
Carbon black, e.g. SMUT
Cell phone's forerunner PAGER
Concludes ENDS
Convenient coin arrangement ROLL
Corporation of a 2001 scandal ENRON
Danger PERIL
Dark-colored baleen whale MINKE
Depletes, as of strength SAPS
Diva's solo ARIA
Early jukebox NICKELODEON
Expensive violin (Abbr.) STRAD
Fairy tale monsters OGRES
Father's hermana TIA
Foolish people, slangily DINGALINGS
Freeze over ICEUP
Fundamental truth in philosophy TAO
Get what you bask for? TAN
Goal of some start-ups IPO
Informed TOLD
Injure HARM
It's much more than chuckle ROAR
Knickknack holder SHELF
Clues Answers
League named for a plant IVY
Like some phones or weights DEAD
Mounties' org. RCMP
Move lips to music (Abbr.) SYNC
Move slower than a canter TROT
Nibble ceaselessly GNAW
Northwest passage seeker William BAFFIN
Noted classified ad list creator CRAIG
Occasion to recharge NAP
Oft-used abbr. ETC
Peak of a hill BROW
Place for rough notes SCRATCHPAD
Political campaigns, e.g. BIDS
Powdered drink TANG
Producers of sunbows MISTS
Prospectors' finds ORES
Pub parking place? STOOL
Rapper Dr. ___ DRE
Repair film SPLICE
Respectful txt msg IMHO
Return flight destinations? NESTS
Shane portrayer LADD
She followed a rabbit down a hole ALICE
Silk's successor, in stockings NYLON
Some woodworking tools AWLS
Start of a drum sound RAT
Swindle FLEECE
Terra ___ (solid ground) FIRMA
They may be filed NAILS
They might be hammered out DEALS
Tooth-cleaning tool DENTALFLOSS
Vice president under Carter MONDALE
Walk a crooked line STAGGER
Walk or canter GAIT
Well-financed gp.? OPEC
Wingtip-to-wingtip dimension SPAN
With "cause," it's a controversy CELEBRE
Word in many gospel titles LORD
Words of self-denial NOTI