USA Today - Mar 13 2012

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Clues Answers
"Things are not always what they ___" SEEM
"Tower Heist" star Murphy EDDIE
A great lake for sailing? ERIE
A great number SCAD
Alternative beau RIVAL
Anticipate with fear DREAD
Apollo vehicle, briefly LEM
Bacterium needing oxygen AEROBE
Bausch & ___ (lens maker) LOMB
Be overly ambitious AIMTOOHIGH
Biblical verb DOEST
Bookie's quotes ODDS
Borden "spokescow" ELSIE
Campfire remnant ASH
Cathedral cross ROOD
Chaotic places ZOOS
Chickasaw and Choctaw, e.g TRIBES
Computer user's shortcut MACRO
Cooper's tool ADZE
Cul-de-___ SAC
Destitute POOR
Drudge PEON
Emulate "Old Blue Eyes" CROON
Even the best teams need a little of it LUCK
Eye up and down OGLE
For the wife HERS
French clergyman ABBE
Fries, to a burger SIDE
Fully cooked DONE
Gray wolf LOBO
Hair protectors SNOODS
Handel's "Messiah," e.g ORATORIO
Hawaiian floral arrangement LEI
Held to its full time, in music TENUTO
Insignificant, as a town ONEHORSE
It soars over the coast ERNE
Kind of Halloween vandal EGGER
Kinsman RELATION
Clues Answers
Lyric poem ODE
Mexico's national flower DAHLIA
Mimicked the mannerisms of APED
Mongolian desert GOBI
More than fill SATE
Not at all boastful MODEST
Numbers game LOTTO
Ob-gyn's org AMA
Old Utopia EDEN
Ominous alternative ELSE
One flying at a leisurely pace BALLOONIST
One with obligations DEBTOR
Opposite of a layabout DOER
Pertinent APPOSITE
Postgraduate's project THESIS
Praise mightily EXTOL
Prefight psych job STARE
Printer's term STET
Puerto ___ RICO
Quarter-round molding OVOLO
Refuges OASES
Religious units SECTS
Repeated exactly ECHOED
Scot's language ERSE
Seating for 18,000, perhaps ARENA
Sharp ACERB
Something to build on ACRE
Sport with bamboo swords KENDO
Student's heavy burden? SCHOOLTEXTBOOKS
Successfully persuades SELLS
Tale on an epic scale SAGA
Tea-producing region of India ASSAM
Trying experience ORDEAL
Unexciting poker hand PAIR
Used the oven BAKED
What a parakeet might eat SEED
Wife of Osiris ISIS
Yearned ACHED