USA Today - Jul 28 2010

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Clues Answers
"Blue Monday" singer Fats DOMINO
"Charlotte's ___" WEB
"Get Shorty" actress Rene RUSSO
"Love the skin you're in" brand OLAY
"Smoking or ___?" NON
"Sting like a bee" boxer ALI
"Stop and ___ the roses" SMELL
"Tarzan" star Ron ELY
"What if," in the boonies SPOSE
"___ whiz!" GEE
1,000,000,000 years EON
1955 Disney dog LADY
A dime a minute, and others RATES
Academy offering AWARD
Airline ticket word VIA
Alex Haley bestseller ROOTS
Appetizing SAVORY
Attained, as a goal MET
Bakery treats TARTS
Bearded African grazer GNU
Beat in a marathon OUTRUN
Came closer NEARED
Candle material TALLOW
Childish comeback ISSO
Cooks in a caldron BOILS
Count's start ONE
Coward in "The Wizard of Oz" LION
Decrease in intensity WANE
Dove or pigeon, at times COOER
Downhill ski race SLALOM
Dry river bed WADI
Dubuque natives IOWANS
Early form of the oboe SHAWM
Eastern nursemaid AMAH
Fairy tale monsters OGRES
Female lobster HEN
Future fish ROE
Give-and-take school activity? TEST
Green-___ (jealous) EYED
Clues Answers
Has ___ (is connected) ANIN
Horne of "Stormy Weather" fame LENA
Lacking protection UNGUARDED
Laurel of Laurel and Hardy STAN
Like most early LPs MONO
Like some canvassing DOORTODOOR
Long-eared beast of burden ASS
Majors or Grant LEE
Medicinal plant ANISEED
Mentalist Geller URI
Nine-inch measure SPAN
Olive ___ (Popeye's gal) OYL
Oppressed by people in power DOWNTRODDEN
Performs improperly MISDOES
Personal discussion type MANTOMAN
Pig's place STY
Professors' bosses DEANS
Provide with some trait ENDUE
Pt. of NCAA ASSN
Rickman of "Die Hard" ALAN
Ruby or Sandra DEE
Scotch go-with SODA
Scottish tongue ERSE
Serving no purpose OTIOSE
Ship's cable HAWSER
Short-term DAYTODAY
Single-masted vessel CATBOAT
Slip of paper in a poker pot IOU
Solution for dry eyes SALINE
Substitute for the unnamed ETAL
Throw a bone to PLACATE
Triple ___ (orange liqueur) SEC
Turkish dignitaries, once BEYS
Type of jar used in canning MASON
Variety of carpeting WALLTOWALL
Vast quantity MULTITUDE
Was a consumer ATE
Western Pacific republic PALAU
___-Mart (retail chain) WAL