USA Today - Jan 24 2006

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Clues Answers
''It's been ___ pleasure'' AREAL
''Jeepers!'' GOSH
''Well, lookee here!'' OHO
Alternative to ''smoking'' NON
And so on, for short ETC
Atwitter AGOG
Autograph hound's necessity PEN
Barbaric SAVAGE
Begins admitting customers OPENS
Benevolent GOOD
Bilbao bull TORO
By what means HOW
Cartel since 1960, briefly OPEC
Centers and guards, e.g. LINEMEN
Certain power failure BROWNOUT
Check line PAYEE
Cheer for Pavarotti BRAVO
Cohort of Luke and Leia HAN
Comparatively cagey SLYER
Comportment BEHAVIOR
Demolitionist's charge TNT
Explorer Polo MARCO
Exxon precursor ESSO
Filmdom's Brockovich ERIN
First name among Italian leading ladies SOPHIA
Forfeiture LOSS
Former first lady's maiden name TODD
Gentleman's gentleman VALET
Goofs up ERRS
Grassy field LEA
Green peg TEE
Historical period ERA
Howe'er THO
Hydrochloric and boric ACIDS
Inadvisable action NONO
Is successful in a lawsuit COLLECTS
It's part of the flight STEP
Ivory ticklers PIANISTS
Loud burst of laughter ROAR
Clues Answers
Means justifiers ENDS
Mimicker APER
Monte Carlo game BACCARAT
Mouse manipulator USER
Ms. Vance, to Lucy VIV
Muck GOOK
Natural balm ALOE
Part of a royal flush TEN
Pick a card, say OPT
Polite decline NOTHANKS
Possessive pronoun YOUR
Purported REPUTED
Qualm SCRUPLE
Reason for signaling TURN
Rink whistle-blower, briefly REF
Road shoulders BERMS
Roman raiment TOGA
Secondhand tire, perhaps RECAP
See 26-Across THESPOTLIGHT
Snoopy, in his fantasies ACE
Snuggery DEN
Some recyclables CANS
Spanking follower NEW
Stay in the shadows KEEPALOWPROFILE
Stay in the shadows REMAINANONYMOUS
Stay in the shadows (with 45-Across) STEERCLEAROF
Steinbeck title direction EAST
Substitute spread OLEO
Tenderfoot's org. BSA
Tibetan oxen YAKS
Toyota model CAMRY
Unknown factors IFS
Uptight EDGY
Utility company's measurement USAGE
Vaulted space APSE
Word in some newspaper names GAZETTE
Word with shell or on EGG
Work-shy LAZY
___, Daman and Diu (until 1987) GOA