USA Today - Jun 6 2012

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Clues Answers
". . . 'Scuse me, while I kiss the ___" SKY
". . . why ___ thou forsaken me?" HAST
"Check your ___ at the door" (Quincy Jones' instruction) EGOS
"Darn tootin'" YEP
"George Washington ___ Here" SLEPT
"Have mercy on me!" e.g PLEA
"King ___" (Elgar cantata) OLAF
"Legal" opener PARA
"Mode" lead-in ALA
"Praying" insect MANTIS
"Rear," to an admiral AFT
"Tip" or "rip" finish OFFS
A stone's throw away from NEAR
Able to cause shock at any moment FULLOFSURPRISES
Action break LULL
All-powerful ruler TSAR
Allowing no alcohol DRY
Alternative to a chairlift TBAR
Apollo, to Artemis TWIN
Apple spray of yore ALAR
Back of a record SIDEB
Back-to-school mo., for many SEPT
Baffled, befogged or befuddled ATSEA
Bank claims LIENS
Barley bristles AWNS
Be suspended HANG
Beach footwear FLIPFLOP
Bearing or manner MIEN
Best way to maintain one's credit rating REPAY
Better arranged NEATER
Bit of elbow encouragement PROD
Boutique SHOP
Bravo and Grande RIOS
British tavern PUB
Calendar girl PINUP
Column's counterpart ROW
Commissioned to go SENT
Computer burner output CDROM
Crescent-shaped figure LUNE
Clues Answers
Doctoral candidate's hurdle ORALS
Emulate a high roller SPEND
Filmdom's Lancaster BURT
Five-armed sea creature STARFISH
Foot that clops HOOF
Football penalty yardage, when close to the goal HALFTHEDISTANCE
Head turner? NECK
Hot healthy drink GREENTEA
It allows drawing 24 hrs. a day? ATM
It's hit at the sound of gunfire FLOOR
It's marked by a ring in a trunk YEAR
Lip-___ (not really sing) SYNC
Lotion or shampoo ingredient ALOE
Matted cotton sheet BATT
Muslim moguls AGHAS
Near, poetically NIGH
One curl or push-up REP
Place with curative waters SPA
Play hooky SKIP
Reason for an inactive super EMPTYAPARTMENTS
Site of many scrapes KNEE
Slav of Europe SERB
Small spade? TREY
Snippiness SASS
Social outcast PARIAH
Squeak squelcher OIL
Swimming or floating NATANT
Syllables sung while skipping TRALA
Table scrap ORT
They can slip in the back DISKS
Tips for a Vegas dealer TOKES
Toward sunrise EAST
Trait determiner GENE
Trollop STRUMPET
Voice above tenor ALTO
Wabbit's wival ELMER
Waste conduit under the street SEWER
Worthwhile thing ASSET
___ off (played the first hole) TEED