USA Today - Jul 8 2009

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Clues Answers
". . . and ___ the twain shall meet" NEER
"A burger, fries and a Coke," e.g. ORDER
"At the Center of the Storm" author George TENET
"Bohemian Rhapsody" addressee MAMA
"Diamonds ___ Girl's Best Friend" AREA
"Monopoly" token IRON
"Star Trek" phaser option STUN
"___ Dragon" (Disney film) PETES
"___ of One's Own" (Woolf work) AROOM
A dog's age EONS
A string has two ENDS
Abnormal plant swelling EDEMA
Abundant AMPLE
Accompanied by WITH
Acid one can ingest LSD
Address for pop songwriters? TINPANALLEY
After-lunch sandwich OREO
Agatha Christie's title DAME
Almost win LOSE
Amputate (with "off") LOP
Anesthetizes NUMBS
Any infectious agents PATHOGENS
April, May and June, to Daisy Duck NIECES
Assault ONSET
At the high point of ATOP
Atlanta-based delivery co. UPS
Bad thing to be under FIRE
Band of fighters CADRE
Basilica of San Francesco setting ASSISI
Bath cloth TERRY
Bath fixtures TUBS
Battle of the Sexes loser RIGGS
Biscuit, to gravy SOP
Bob Marley or Peter Tosh, briefly RASTA
Business with snippy employees? SALON
Carl Perkins' shoe material SUEDE
Carolina's ___ Dee River PEE
Casa cookware OLLA
Catherine ___ (Henry VIII's widow) PARR
Clues Answers
Challenge for a speech coach LISP
Charlotte ___ (rich dessert) RUSSE
Clumps of earth CLODS
Cognitive contents IDEAS
Companionless LONE
Corners his majesty MATES
Expunges ERASES
File menu command EXIT
Folklore beasts ORCS
Give off, as fumes EMIT
Give the slip to EVADE
Historic exile site ELBA
Hit diamond dirt SLID
If you're human, you'll do it ERR
Immature insects LARVAE
It may be found in a stew LADLE
It's found among the reeds OBOE
Keep ___ profile (be secretive) ALOW
Ladder type STEP
Like big property owners ACRED
Listening devices EARS
Man from Riyadh ARAB
Mel Gibson film (with ''The'') ROADWARRIOR
Metrical stress, in poetry ICTUS
Oscar nominee for "Unfaithful" DIANELANE
Plant with detergent properties AMOLE
Run ___ of the law AFOUL
Ruth's mother-in-law NAOMI
Short-billed merganser SMEW
Something that's taken in court STAND
Stevens who is now Yusuf Islam CAT
The world of literary hacks GRUBSTREET
They indicate where one should sit PLACECARDS
Together, at the Met ADUE
Tug-of-war need ROPE
Vehicle for De Niro TAXI
What children should be? SEEN
Working mammal ASS
Years ago ONCE