USA Today - Feb 16 2012

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Clues Answers
". . . ___ the twain shall meet" NEER
". . . ___, whatever will be, will be" (Day lyric) SERA
"Beauty and the Beast" character BELLE
"Could I interject?" AHEM
"Dick Tracy" gal TESS
"I, Robot" author Asimov ISAAC
"Truer words were never spoken" AMEN
"___ give you the shirt off his back!" HED
Accolades PRAISE
After-dinner party SOIREE
American Immigrant Wall of Honor's island ELLIS
Astonishing, to Uri Geller? MINDBENDING
Birchbark craft CANOE
Blackthorn plum SLOE
Blood-related AKIN
Bondservant SLAVE
Breed of cat or rabbit ANGORA
Bubbling on the stove ABOIL
Butcher-shop device SCALE
Canadian sentence-enders, stereotypically EHS
Capture in a trap ENSNARE
Causing heads to turn EYECATCHING
Cell "messenger" RNA
Censor's insertion BLEEP
Cornmeal cake PONE
Cowboy's leggings CHAPS
Delectable LIPSMACKING
Diminutive TEENSY
Display tripod EASEL
Dwarflike creatures GNOMES
Equal person PEER
Flip ___ (decide randomly) ACOIN
Forensic science tool DNA
Foxlike SLY
Grizzled sailor TAR
Homework assignment REPORT
Humdingers BEAUTS
Improved partner? NEW
Clues Answers
Increasingly rare computer monitor CRT
Interval between ordering and receiving LEADTIME
Is in possession of HAS
It's the big picture? MURAL
Layered cookie OREO
Like serious collectors AVID
List of dishes MENU
Live show equipment AMP
Lobster claw PINCER
Marsh grasses REEDS
Mongoose family member MEERKAT
Natural gusher GEYSER
Old salt SEADOG
One holding a claim on property LIENOR
One way to rush HEADLONG
Orange exteriors RINDS
PC-to-PC linkup LAN
Place for a mud bath SPA
Poetic work ODE
Put together, as a book BIND
Reminder of knee surgery SCAR
Reunion group KIN
Satellite dish ancestor AERIAL
Scandalous suffix GATE
Singles ONES
Slow-cooked entree STEW
Slowly reduce, as a cliff face ERODE
Society ball honorees (Abbr.) DEBS
Some refuse collectors ASHCANS
Suspect's excuse ALIBI
Tear-gas spray MACE
The X-Men, notably MUTANTS
Time you can't relive PAST
Top line of a form, often NAME
Turn right, to a horse GEE
With the bow, musically ARCO
___ Bator ULAN
___ pump (drainage aid) SUMP