USA Today - May 31 2011

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Clues Answers
"A Knight's ___" (2001) TALE
"Beggars can't be choosers," e.g. ADAGE
"Family Guy" creator MacFarlane SETH
"Fool me once, ___ . . . SHAME
"Hi ___!" (fan's message) MOM
"If I ___ Had a Brain" ONLY
"Like that'll ever happen!" ASIF
"Speed" setting BUS
"The Grapes of Wrath" extra OKIE
"Too many more to mention" abbr. ETAL
"What died?" provocation ODOR
"What?!" HUH
"___ Maria" AVE
"___ of the Cave Bear" CLAN
'50s DJ Freed ALAN
Above average in height TALL
Absolutely absurd INANE
Actor Colin FIRTH
After-hours school gp. PTA
Air, as one's opinion VOICE
Ancient Egyptians held it sacred IBIS
Apple drink CIDER
Asian nanny AMAH
Attempt anew RETRY
Auditioner's quest ROLE
Avis output OVA
Baby word GOO
Backpacker's quarters TENT
Bald eagle's relative ERNE
Bay of Fundy feature TIDE
Beaten at chess MATED
Beginning ONSET
Big hammer SLEDGE
Bird in a ladies' magazine? GLAMOURGULL
Bird's claw TALON
Bison feature MANE
Black hardwood EBONY
Blend MELD
Blown orchestral instrument OBOE
Boston NBAers, informally CELTS
Breakfast for the birds? FINCHTOAST
Brother's hood COWL
Bus-stop convenience BENCH
Byzantine empress IRENE
Cabbie's customer FARE
Cat-who-got-the-canary smile? GRIN
Certain night light LANTERN
Charles S. Dutton TV title role ROC
City on Norton Sound NOME
Cost of entry FEE
Desdemona's husband and murderer OTHELLO
Destroys gradually ERODES
Display anger FLYOFFTHEHANDLE
Dominant theme MOTIF
Doofus IDIOT
Doomsayer's sign OMEN
Entice LURE
Equine coloring ROAN
Escort's offering ARM
Falco of "Nurse Jackie" EDIE
Far from bungling ADEPT
Felled tree remnant STUMP
Fine spray MIST
Frosts ICES
Funds coming in REVENUE
Get close to NEAR
Get one's bearings ORIENT
Get rich at others' expense FEATHERONESNEST
Getz or Laurel STAN
Gossip column tidbit RUMOR
Got an A on ACED
Got an A-plus on ACED
Grab bag abbr. MISC
Greek vowel IOTA
Guy's quest GAL
He visits once a year SANTA
Hit with stones PELTED
In better health HALER
Clues Answers
Invert, as an apple cart UPSET
It had several missions APOLLO
Jungle bungalow HUT
Kind of music SHEET
Lie adjacent to ABUT
Long tale SAGA
Look, as a wolf OGLE
Mason's Della STREET
Mia's ex WOODY
Mop the deck SWAB
More impatient ANTSIER
Mouse trap temptation CHEESE
Mr. Peanut prop CANE
Muddy abode STY
Not appropriate INAPT
Old-fashioned theater name ODEON
Ontario native CREE
Out of shape? BENT
Part of MGM METRO
Peeve MIFF
Permission slip RELEASE
Pertaining to money ECONOMIC
Picnic shaders ELMS
Pig's place POKE
Pion, e.g. MESON
Pipsqueak RUNT
Place for mounted antlers, maybe DEN
Place to see indie films ARTHOUSE
Pop's John ELTON
Pope's jurisdiction HOLYSEE
Post a gain EARN
Postal creed conjunction NOR
Prepare to drag REV
Pump product GAS
Put up points SCORE
Puzo subject MAFIA
Ready to serve DONE
Reddish dye HENNA
Refrain syllables TRALA
Related AKIN
Return, in a way COMEHOMETOROOST
River to the Caspian Sea URAL
Robbers' gain HAUL
Run easily LOPE
Scratches (out), as a living EKES
Seaport of northern Chile ARICA
Second word of the golden rule UNTO
Sloppy joe holder BUN
Sound from Simba ROAR
Spreading fast online VIRAL
Spy bird? EGRETAGENT
Stitched SEWN
Study at the last minute CRAM
Substantial, as a role MEATY
Tannish color ECRU
The Professor and Mary Ann were on one ISLE
They may be overhead, on a car CAMS
Thing of little importance TRIFLE
Tipsy PIEEYED
Translucent, as hosiery SHEER
Trident point TINE
Troubles and misfortunes ILLS
Used an auger BORED
Vichyssoise onion LEEK
Vogue rival ELLE
Wall Street bird? COMMONSTORK
Wee particle ATOM
Well-___ (prosperous) TODO
What identical twins have in common DNA
What you might take on a trip PHOTO
Win at ___ cost ANY
With all one's marbles SANE
Word with "shop" or "gun" MACHINE
Writer's block breakthrough IDEA
Writer's pain CRAMP
WXYZ buttons NINES
Year-end tunes NOELS
Zilch NIL