USA Today - Dec 8 2011

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Clues Answers
". . . where no man has ___ before" GONE
"Cosmos" astronomer Carl SAGAN
"It's ___ country!" AFREE
"Scalpel!" requester SURGEON
"The African Queen" screenwriter James AGEE
"___ Mio" OSOLE
1990 film featuring the "Wet Bandits" HOMEALONE
Barrel of laughs RIOT
Best way to get it down? PAT
Blows the mind of STUNS
Bone below the elbow ULNA
Borders EDGES
California home of the Santa Anita racetrack ARCADIA
Calvino or Balbo ITALO
Capital of the Bahamas NASSAU
Cheerful song LILT
Chicken style KIEV
Classic Bruce Lee film ENTERTHEDRAGON
Control ___ (obsessive type) FREAK
Convent resident NUN
Descriptor for chapped hands DISHPAN
Down feeling SORROW
Drudges PLODS
Enters the Land of Nod SLEEPS
Finishes a carpentry job SANDS
Flat-topped elevation MESA
Gainesville gridder GATOR
Game with falling shapes TETRIS
Gasoline dispensers PUMPS
Girls' braids PIGTAILS
Groucho's tattooed lady LYDIA
Hand cream additive ALOE
It has shoulders, but no head ROAD
Its state insect is the honeybee UTAH
Lady in a Beatles' song RITA
Leave helpless with laughter SLAY
Like new recruits RAW
Clues Answers
Like pine scent, perhaps WOODSY
Live another 365 days AGE
Lively, like a shampoo? PERT
Lockup lineup CELLS
Lounge in many a hotel PIANO
Mechanical memorization ROTE
Mélange OLIO
Mix with a spoon STIR
Monks FRAS
Mrs. David Copperfield DORA
Muslim official CADI
Mythical meanie OGRE
One of Moses' spies CALEB
Out-and-out UTTER
Part of a famous plane name ENOLA
Prayer-ending word AMEN
Pro's opposite ANTI
Prolonged attack SIEGE
San ___ (city in west California) MATEO
Sarajevo's locale BOSNIA
Schwarzenegger film ENDOFDAYS
Scoundrels SOANDSOS
Shoulder muscles, briefly DELTS
Slum vermin RATS
Soon, in poems ANON
St. Louis athlete RAM
Stephen King story turned film GRAVEYARDSHIFT
Strong, as feelings INTENSE
Suds maker SOAP
Swerves at sea YAWS
Tear apart REND
Track competition MEET
Type of acid AMINO
Weapon handle HAFT
Wrap for a rani SARI
Wraps up ENDS
___-do-well NEER