USA Today - Jan 6 2010

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Clues Answers
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" poet MOORE
"A ___ formality!" MERE
"Billy Budd," e.g. OPERA
"For" words YESES
"Laugh-In" co-host ROWAN
"Not a creature was stirring" time EVE
"The agony of da feet" CORNS
"What am ___ think?" ITO
1492 Atlantic crosser NINA
A unicycle has one TIRE
All ___ (from the start) ALONG
Amethyst or tourmaline GEM
An anagram for "rats" TSAR
Area of India's capital DELHI
As to, contractually INRE
Assert confidently AVER
Atlantic bird ERNE
Baseball cap part VISOR
Big house man or woman CON
Bird attractor FEEDER
Bird's temperature regulator aid AIRSAC
Blanket stealer HOG
Board postings at JFK ETAS
Bun net SNOOD
Carefully arranged NEAT
CGS unit ERG
Charged particles IONS
Christogram letter RHO
Christopher Columbus' city of birth GENOA
Circulatory system part AORTA
Close ___ (near) INON
Courteous regard DEFERENCE
Courtroom employee, briefly STENO
Detroit auto trio THEBIGTHREE
Dundee topper TAM
Embryo's place WOMB
Evaluate ore samples ASSAY
Exceeded the speed limit? ODED
Extinct New Zealand birds MOAS
Clues Answers
Finished hang gliding ALIT
Flouting the Commandments SINFUL
Gelling agents in foods AGARS
Goddess with a lyre ERATO
Gunky stuff CRUD
Had an old-fashioned dinner ATEIN
Hits with a summons CITES
Household appliance WASHER
Internal Revenue Service, e.g. TAXER
It comes twice after "Que" in a song SERA
Last of the Stuart monarchs ANNE
Like Ernie Keebler ELFIN
Like some pilots in summer? UNLIT
Loch Lomond hill BRAE
Makeup of the old ball game NINEINNINGS
Mean moods SNITS
Midday TWELVENOON
Ninth Greek letter IOTA
Not punished UNAVENGED
Parts of speech NOUNS
Plaster DAUB
Prenatal care centers? UTERI
Probably will, circumstances permitting PLANSTO
Prove that you want a hand ANTE
Record number? SONG
Shucker's unit EAR
Sibelius' "Valse ___" TRISTE
Smallish NBA players SIXFOOTERS
South-of-the-border rodent AGOUTI
Tennyson's "Geraint and ___" ENID
Third X in a game TOE
TV premiere season FALL
Waffle type BELGIAN
Wayside establishments INNS
Went lickety-split TORE
Yemeni or Qatari ARAB
Yemenite hub ADEN
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___ segno (musical direction) DAL