USA Today - Sep 8 2011

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Clues Answers
"Fifteen Miles on the ___ Canal" ERIE
"Overhead" engine part CAM
"___ a real nowhere man" (Beatles lyric) HES
50-Down, casually ONE
A river runs through it, often VALE
Allegro ___ (very fast, in a score) ASSAI
Amateur's opposite PRO
Ancient gathering place AGORA
Architectural order IONIC
As a favor, in Latin EXGRATIA
B-movie venue, once DRIVEIN
Barely manage (with "out") EKE
Bart's animated sister LISA
Bauble GAUD
Belching flames, e.g AFIRE
Big name in soft drinks COCACOLA
Canada ___ (birds) GEESE
Chest bone STERNUM
Created MADE
Decay ROT
Disgusted reply UGH
Diver's milieu SEA
Dress shirt feature PLEAT
Easily fooled NAIVE
Edible hero? HOAGY
Eliminate gradually (with "out") PHASE
Embrace HUG
Equipment GEAR
Flaky mineral MICA
Flames no more EXES
Flier with a tail KITE
Former Disney honcho Michael EISNER
Given to copying? APISH
Gourmand EATER
Grapefruit relative UGLI
Haile Selassie follower, briefly RASTA
Hair application GEL
Hitting a point of no return ACING
Infernal writer? DANTE
Clues Answers
Krypton is one GAS
Landing spot on a roof HELIPAD
Law feared by gangsters RICO
Low grade DEE
Makes a scene? ACTS
Map feature INSET
Michigan metropolis GRANDRAPIDS
Mocking comment JAPE
More of a milquetoast MEEKER
Movie backdrops SETS
Narrowly defeats EDGES
Necessity for a natural in blackjack ACE
Neighbor of St. Petersburg TAMPA
Nerve network RETE
One of the four directions EAST
One trying to make a living? JUDGE
Ooze through the cracks SEEP
Open, as a pill bottle UNCAP
Opposite of sow REAP
Partner of "desist" CEASE
Patient one's proverb HASTEMAKESWASTE
Piece of parsley SPRIG
Place for batting practice CAGE
Plaintiff's filing LAWSUIT
Pucker-producing TART
Quite some distance away AFAR
Register single DOLLAR
Some Monopoly buys (Abbr.) AVES
Stable youngster FOAL
Start to conceive? PRE
Sweet-as-apple-cider girl IDA
The sum of all parts TOTAL
Topmost point ACME
Twisty letters ESSES
Unwelcome ones at a stag party? DOES
Variety TYPE
Vehicle with bells, often SLEIGH
Wear away ERODE
Where speeders live life? THEFASTLANE