USA Today - Dec 14 2012

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Clues Answers
"Hand it over!" GIVE
"How was ___ know?" ITO
"True Blood" star Paquin ANNA
Actor Denis LEARY
Agave drinks TEQUILAS
All atwitter AGOG
Bagel source, often DELI
Banjo picker Scruggs EARL
Billy Joel's instrument PIANO
Campaign staffer AIDE
Cola lead-in COCA
Detectives' board game CLUE
Dweebish "Family Matters" boy URKEL
Epic searches QUESTS
Expert in ledger-domain? CPA
Facsimile REPLICA
Feature of a riot SEETHINGMOB
Fill to the gills SATE
Fillable bread PITA
Follow-the-leader player APER
Fourteen pounds, in Britain STONE
Full of beef fat SUETY
Good times HIGHS
Gray of "Gray's Manual of Botany" ASA
Hearing aids EARS
Heat-related injury BURN
His invention ascends through stories OTIS
How-to part STEP
In ___ of (instead of) LIEU
Iris location UVEA
Irish or Welsh ancestor CELT
It provides no outlets CULDESAC
Kick out EVICT
Knightstick? LANCE
Linguistics concern USAGE
List shortener, for short ETAL
Mesh gears ENGAGE
Middling grade CEE
More robust HALER
Clues Answers
N.J.-born actress Sorvino MIRA
One who serves up whoppers LIAR
Onetime airline owner Howard HUGHES
Palindromic poetic preposition ERE
Perched on ATOP
Pirate's rum drink GROG
Place to press a suit? COURT
Place to stop between flights ROOST
Polecat's trademark ODOR
Psych final? OTIC
Reduces, as pressure EASES
Root for Hawaiians TARO
Russian country house DACHA
Seeks alms BEGS
Self-serving activity EGOTRIP
Shade HUE
Signal of a sort CUE
Single shoe protector GALOSH
Skylit central courts ATRIA
Smaller numbers for larger numbers GROUPRATES
Some big engines DIESELS
Tabloid topic CELEB
Tails do it WAG
Take unfair advantage of USE
Temporary bridges GANGPLANKS
Thing a band wants to play to? RECORDCROWD
Totally unreactive INERT
Touch down LAND
Trade requirement? TOOL
Trooper's head? PARA
Turn down in an ugly way SPURN
Type of convertible HARDTOP
Urged (with "on") EGGED
Vatican heads POPES
Vent sound HISS
Villain's work EVIL
Was sorry about RUED
Wine vat waste LEES
Word with "tag" or "booth" PHONE