USA Today - Jan 8 2010

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Clues Answers
"Am ___ a roll!" ION
"If you don't eat your ___, you can't have any pudding" MEAT
"Ring Around the ___" ROSY
"That's rough" PITY
"The lady ___ protest too much" DOTH
'Twixt TWEEN
1964 Barbra Streisand hit PEOPLE
50/50 proposition TOSSUP
Actor Green and others SETHS
Actor Leary DENIS
Arch area INSTEP
Arrange in a cabinet FILE
Arrange in a systematic collection CODIFY
Assist in malfeasance ABET
Be bratty with, in a way SASS
Brusque SNIPPY
Calming words EASY
Can FIREANEMPLOYEE
Can CONTAINEROFTUNA
Can HASTHECAPACITY
Cheat at blind man's bluff PEEK
Come up in the world RISE
Conscience-stricken PENITENT
Crab's sensor (Var.) PALP
Damaged layer OZONE
Entre ___ (between you and me) NOUS
Ermine with a summer coat STOAT
Eschew humility CROW
Europe's tallest active volcano ETNA
Forms a residue when smelting ore SLAGS
Fourth-down decision, often PUNT
Gilligan's place ISLE
Half a magician's incantation POCUS
Heartless fellow? TINMAN
Invisible emanation AURA
Japanese instrument KOTO
Jet-black, in verse EBON
Lessen, as pain EASE
Clues Answers
Lion's share MOST
Mergers and buyouts DEALS
Nineteenth letter ESS
Old hull caulking OAKUM
On ___ (with no assurance of sale) SPEC
Pay no attention to IGNORE
Picnic buttinsky ANT
Place for rants BLOG
Prefix with "normal" or "phrase" PARA
Public image, briefly REP
Purloin STEAL
Requiring fast action URGENT
Robert Browning's "Rabbi ben ___" EZRA
Scat legend Fitzgerald ELLA
Schuss SKI
Scuttle a take-off ABORT
Slow gastropod SNAIL
Some senate votes YEAS
Something to feather NEST
Special vocabulary LINGO
Sri ___ LANKA
Surface for gardening PLOT
Take its toll? PEAL
Take off the shelf USE
The 10 million in a joule ERGS
The back of a saddle CANTLE
Tickle one's fancy AMUSE
Time for a spot? TEABREAK
Traveler's havens INNS
Type of hat or glasses OPERA
Vessels for ashes URNS
Vied for a position RAN
Walk through puddles SLOSH
Where Oliver Hazard Perry prevailed ERIE
Wiesbaden's state HESSE
Word on all U.S. coins TRUST
Yum-Yum's sash OBI
___ de corps (morale) ESPRIT