USA Today - Dec 1 2011

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Clues Answers
"1984" author GEORGEORWELL
"Dadgummit!" DANG
"Fifteen Miles on the ___ Canal" ERIE
"James and the Giant Peach" author Dahl ROALD
"Not guilty," for one PLEA
"Picnic" penner INGE
"The ___ near!" (doomsayer's phrase) ENDIS
Ages and ages EONS
Alternative to JVC RCA
Approaches NEARS
Arctic, for one OCEAN
Canadian flag feature LEAF
Catch wind of HEAR
Church principles DOGMA
Coin that's not worth much CENT
Common musical chord TRIAD
Corn container CAN
Critique, as a film REVIEW
Czech or Ukrainian, e.g SLAV
Declare AVER
Disney characters DWARFS
Drops below the horizon SETS
Excessively TOO
Farmer's measures ACRES
Fish eggs ROE
Flag down, as a cab HAIL
Flavorful mustard DIJON
Flightless bird RHEA
Greetings among mateys AHOYS
Guarantee ASSURE
Heavenly bear URSA
Hit alternative MISS
It's music to a musician's ears OVATION
King's fool JESTER
Lavish musical production GRANDOPERA
Like gargoyles UGLY
Made a feline comment MEOWED
Makes one's blood boil ENRAGES
Material for a road or roof TAR
Clues Answers
Messes up ERRS
Milne's donkey EEYORE
Monetary units in South Africa RANDS
Monk's head covering COWL
North African expanse SAHARA
Nostalgia-inducing songs GOLDENOLDIES
Numbers for a corpulent Henry VIII
O founder OPRAH
One and only SOLE
One of the Williams sisters of tennis SERENA
Organ tube PIPE
Oz, in relation to the rainbow OVER
Persona ___ grata NON
President Carter's middle name EARL
React to a crash? REBOOT
Researcher's bacteria ECOLI
Returned to the perch ALIT
Scallion GREENONION
School on the Thames ETON
Sea, to Cousteau MER
Sicken with sweetness CLOY
Snail-mail system (Abbr.) USPS
Some Vietnamese HMONG
Stand the test of time ENDURE
Theater section LOGE
Three-part cookies OREOS
Three-quarters of M DCCL
Took a quick look PEEKED
Trip the light fantastic DANCE
What dieters should eat? LESS
What empty stomachs do GROWL
When impatient people want it NOW
When repeated, a child's train CHOO
Window cleaner's goof SMEAR
Witch's facial blemish WART
Yearn LONG
___ choy (Chinese cabbage) BOK
___ snuff (adequate) UPTO
___ water (cologne kin) TOILET