USA Today - Dec 3 2009

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Clues Answers
". . . can ___ long way" GOA
"Aye!" sayer PRO
"Cheers" barmaid CARLA
"No questions ___" ASKED
"This guy walks into ___..." ABAR
A conductor might pick it up TEMPO
A tieback ties it back DRAPE
Aberdeen negative NAE
Afloat UPINTHEAIR
Allegro ___ (very brisk, in music) ASSAI
Alumni newsletter word NEE
American dogwood OSIER
Amount in a Brylcreem slogan DAB
Ancient Greece's seven SAGES
Antler branches TINES
Apothecary DRUGGIST
Assortment around the surge protector WIRES
Basil amount SPRIG
Bobby of hockey fame ORR
California wine center NAPA
Caspian Sea, really LAKE
Certain Zoroastrian sect member PARSI
Chutes partner LADDERS
Cold weather coat RIME
Component of some pipes PVC
Criticize severely RIP
Diplomat's need TACT
Domicile ABODE
Drainpipe part TRAP
Elderberry wine additive, in a Kesselring play ARSENIC
Empty weight TARE
Fodder for a mudder HAY
Fowl's perch ROOST
Fund, as a fellowship ENDOW
Gas company famous for its toy trucks HESS
Gum arabic-yielding tree ACACIA
Gun at a red light REV
Hardly squaresville HEP
Hotel room bonus VIEW
Clues Answers
Infant's achievement STEP
It recounts the Fall GENESIS
It's often taken down in January TREE
Item saved in a locket, perhaps TRESS
Kind of code or colony PENAL
Let lapse DROP
Like a deck covered with water AWASH
Like some grandparents GREAT
Makes sense HOLDSWATER
Moore of "Ghost" DEMI
Nautical equilibrium SEALEGS
Not quite Saharan SEMIARID
Opposite of include OMIT
Overlays with metal CLADS
Petty in "Free Willy" LORI
Rejuvenation resort SPA
Rhine tributary AAR
Second-largest living bird EMU
Sells off DIVESTS
Ship-to-shore line? AHOY
Shots in the dark STABS
Singer who spells her name in all lowercase letters KDLANG
Sister in an Eastwood film SARA
Source of a Biblical jawbone ASS
Subject of an FDA dietary-supplement ban EPHEDRA
Summoned Lurch RANG
Test under pressure TRIALBYFIRE
They're slippery when wet EELS
Tiller of the Middle Ages SERF
Tito Puente's music SALSA
Traffic congestion SNARL
Turkish leaders AGHAS
Unpretentious DOWNTOEARTH
Veggie with eyes SPUD
Waiter's weight TRAY
What Casper tries not to do SCARE
What money does TALKS
Wilde's "The Importance of ___ Earnest" BEING
___ Dee River (Carolina waterway) PEE