USA Today - Oct 4 2010

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Clues Answers
". . . are ___ parted" SOON
"Back to the salt ___" MINES
"Murder, She Wrote" locale MAINE
"Support our ___" (patriotic request) TROOPS
"___ Girl" (Billy Joel) UPTOWN
"___ guys finish last" NICE
Aboveboard OPENLY
Absolute ruler TYRANT
Access, as a resource TAP
Acrobatic feats FLIPS
Act like a volcano ERUPT
Af-fjord-able city? OSLO
African antelope TOPI
After-bath apparel ROBE
Albanian money unit LEK
Bartender's measure SHOT
Behavior principle ETHIC
Biology class initials RNA
Bumped, as the bid UPPED
Cajun soup ingredient OKRA
Candy jar classic LEMONDROP
Certain Indian royalty RANIS
Chiffon or voile used to make curtains NINON
Conditional phrase IFNOT
Cook's implement SAUCEPAN
Cookie favorite OREO
Cultivating tool HOE
Declare bluntly AVOW
Device with a Jackson hole? ATM
Drunkard SOUSE
Famous woman in a famous garden EVE
Former Iranian monarchs SHAHS
Hardly hardy WEAK
Head honchos, collectively LEADERSHIP
Heap ___ upon SCORN
Hit with a palm SLAP
It comes before a fall? PRAT
Kine word? MOO
Clues Answers
King Mark's bride ISOLDE
Meal on a blanket PICNIC
Most bronze TANNEST
Most spooky EERIEST
Old-time wagons WAINS
Optimal number of golf strokes FEWEST
Outback steakhouse meat? EMU
Parasite's need HOST
Pivoted (Var.) SLEWED
Player next to a tackle END
Prey-catching claw TALON
Rattled one's saber at MENACED
Really liking, informally INTO
Reason for a casino's edge ODDS
Recant UNSAY
Root container FOLLICLE
Sandwich shop DELI
Serpent's home? SEA
Showcase lead-in on "The Price is Right" SPIN
Side-to-side measurement WIDTH
Skin wound LESION
Sober go-with CLEAN
Some sporting weapons EPEES
Soulful Chaka KHAN
Sport of princes POLO
Straighten up NEATEN
This cluue has one TYPO
Tiny particle ATOM
Tunefully, in music ARIOSO
Twin sister of Bert Bobbsey NAN
Type of band or show ONEMAN
Ukrainian port city ODESSA
Vegetarian protein concoction LENTILSOUP
Waikiki woman WAHINE
Wartime prison LABORCAMP
Where some may beat the Heat ARENA
Working drudge PEON
Yoko's surname ONO