USA Today - Sep 4 2010

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Clues Answers
"Back Street" writer Fannie HURST
"One Touch of Venus" star Gardner AVA
"The Wizard of Oz" prop OILCAN
Aberdeen fellow SCOT
Amusement spots of old PENNYARCADES
Arched molding OGEE
Arizona city YUMA
Athletic trainer's supply TAPE
Baglike structures SACS
Baseball stat. RBI
Basic belief TENET
Bloom of the stage CLAIRE
Blue dye INDIGO
Boldness to a fault GALL
Book before Esth. in the Bible NEH
Bring to ruin UNDO
Candy bar nut ALMOND
Combines BLENDS
Cooked up schemes PLOTTED
Desi's homeland CUBA
Disaster relief, e.g. AID
Disrupt a player on the tee, maybe TALK
Dry and crumbly MEALY
Elton's john? LOO
Even bigger HUGER
Father's Day gift recipient DAD
Flamboyant style ELAN
Flattered most sincerely APED
Fourth word in the "Star Wars" intro AGO
French gal pal AMIE
Give off, as radiation EMIT
Go beyond tanning FRY
Go commando? RAID
Grain husks CHAFF
Harder to hunt down RARER
Hip bones ILIA
Holiday kickoffs EVES
Iraqi port BASRA
It features a twist IRONY
Clues Answers
Jeans alternatives CHINOS
Jukeboxes of old NICKELODEONS
Like an unswept hearth ASHY
Like Keebler workers ELFIN
Like our numerals ARABIC
Like some grins SHEEPISH
Lion's share MOST
Long-eared animal ASS
Mao ___-tung TSE
Natural history museum piece RELIC
Novelist Rand AYN
O-ring, e.g. GASKET
Obligated BOUND
Opposite of "faster" EATER
Out-of-control kids BRATS
Outward tidal flow EBB
Pack it in QUIT
Pastoral setting LEA
Peeples of "Fame" NIA
Perfumes ESSENCES
Pinocchio's problem LYING
Politically incorrect clothing material FUR
Reach ATTAIN
Seal engraved on a ring SIGNET
Short-distance racers QUARTERHORSES
Small matter? ATOM
Speak one's mind OPINE
Store-owning family on "Little House on the Prairie" OLESON
The Red Planet MARS
They make you yawn BORES
Time piece? ERA
Towels off DRIES
TV sleuth Peter GUNN
Type of singer? STOOLIE
Valley where David slew Goliath ELAH
Watch word? TICK
Wet lowland FEN
You can cook with it GAS
Your sister's daughters NIECES