USA Today - Nov 5 2013

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Clues Answers
". . . with a banjo on my ___" KNEE
"And what do you want?" YES
"Crime and Punishment" heroine SONYA
"Fanny" writer Jong ERICA
"Give it ___ straight" TOME
"Look, ma, no hands!" and others BOASTS
"___ as good a time as any" NOWS
Absence of oomph ANEMIA
Award for the best college linebacker DICKBUTKUSAWARD
Bedtime request STORY
Before, once before ERST
Breeze-filled AIRY
Cedar chest closer HASP
Certain seasonal sandwich MCRIB
Chimney blackener SOOT
Cookie choice OREO
Cooking or sewing term BASTE
Court TV fare TRIAL
Destroy the self-confidence of ABASH
Deteriorate ERODE
Dirndl component BODICE
Drives (on) EGGS
First orbiting chimp ENOS
Flying Cloud automaker REO
Forgets to mention OMITS
Formally accepting RATIFYING
Friendly "Star Wars" creature EWOK
Ginger ___ ALE
Had liabilities OWED
Hardy's "___ From the Madding Crowd" FAR
Hindu holy man SADHU
Hounds' sounds BARKS
Hushed SOTTOVOCE
It's smaller than a sea LAKE
Item having exchange value ASSET
Langley, Va., group CIA
Letters from a short person? IOU
Like a dump's aroma FETID
Clues Answers
Like meat past its prime GAMY
Like uncooked meat RAW
Mexican dollar PESO
Moistens WETS
Monica's brother on "Friends" ROSS
More unusual ODDER
Natural water jet GEYSER
Needing to be aired out MUSTY
Old calculator ABACUS
One in a cattle drive STEER
Opposite of far NEAR
Part of PTA (Abbr.) ASSN
Printers' needs INKS
Pro shop bagful TEES
Pump abbr. of old REG
Put out, as stamps ISSUE
Question of "when" involving Billy Crystal HARRYMETSALLY
Raw material? SMUT
Reason for a lighter sentence? ARSON
Rice-___ ARONI
Run ___ of (conflict with) AFOUL
Sailing the waves ASEA
Shaving cream additive ALOE
Stephen King novel (with "The") TOMMYKNOCKERS
Summer refuge SHADE
Sunflower supporter STEM
Sweet, rich wine TOKAY
Take some heat from? UNARM
The "Mistress of the Dark" ELVIRA
The river in Mexico? ELRIO
They fawn over fawns DOES
They have a pecking order HENS
Throw back in READD
Time of day HOUR
Walk-way connector THIS
Whimperer PULER
Wood smoother RASP
Word on the way out ADIOS