USA Today - Dec 27 2010

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Clues Answers
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" opener TWAS
"Stop the cameras!" CUT
"The King of Queens" first name DOUG
"Why, __ be a pleasure!" ITD
"___ Christmas!" MERRY
"___ Few Dollars More" (Eastwood film) FORA
43,560-square-foot units ACRES
As blind as ___ ABAT
Bakery lure AROMA
Barbecue morsel RIB
Basement's opposite ATTIC
Bashes for bachelors STAGPARTIES
Bellow at a bull MOO
Bombastic TURGID
Busts inside a museum? ART
Calculating reptile? ADDER
California wine valley NAPA
Casual shirt, casually TEE
Classic Frank Capra film MEETJOHNDOE
Comedy club offering JOKE
Cookie favorite OREO
Coup ___ (political rebellion) DETAT
Date SEE
Decorate with ornaments ADORN
Did an autumn job RAKED
Fed. biomedical research agency NIH
Fuzzy brown fruit KIWI
Gidget portrayer Dee SANDRA
Good things to have meet ENDS
Greenish-blue color TEAL
Help a lawbreaker ABET
Hoity-toity LAHDIDAH
Hot or iced drink TEA
Invoice word REMIT
It can't take wing RHEA
It was replaced by the euro MARK
Lawyers' org. ABA
Like the Empire State Building COLOSSAL
Links great Sam SNEAD
Clues Answers
Lower part of the skeleton TIBIA
Maternally related ENATE
Mauna ___ (Hawaii's highest point) KEA
Most serene CALMEST
Moved quickly TORE
Need an aspirin ACHE
P & L statement preparer CPA
Pageant host EMCEE
Palms yielding starches SAGOS
Part of a pair of Levi's RIVET
Pencil for shavers STYPTIC
Perturb IRK
Phone service util. TELCO
Priest of Tibet LAMA
Quarterbacks, at times PASSERS
Robert Wagner/Stefanie Powers TV series HARTTOHART
Ruinous damage HAVOC
Some smokehouse meats HAMS
Songwriter DiFranco ANI
Squared things AVENGED
Squared up TRUED
Sudden growth spell SPURT
Super's apartment, e.g. UNIT
Suspense killer SPOILER
Swift horse ARAB
Sword handles HAFTS
Tab picker-upper PAYER
Teenage males, slangily YOUNGBUCKS
Tennis score after deuce ADIN
Teri's "Desperate Housewives" co-star EVA
They're often worn with tails TOPHATS
Triple trio NONET
Unable to continue STUCK
Up and around ABOUT
Vikki who sang "It Must Be Him" CARR
Where people ask to be hit? RENO
Wood for chests CEDAR
Word in genealogy NEE
___-nez (type of eyeglasses) PINCE