USA Today - Dec 9 2013

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Clues Answers
"A Christmas Carol" comment BAH
"Boo!" from the stands, e.g CATCALL
"Ciao, Caesar" AVE
"Fort Apache, the ___" (Newman film) BRONX
"Hydrate" lead-in CARBO
"Peanuts" expression UGH
A Stooge CURLY
Abundantly fruitful PROLIFIC
Ahab and crew WHALERS
Ares' area WAR
Asian princess RANI
Bat shapers LATHES
Before, to poets of old ERE
Birling surface LOG
Boxer's foot PAW
Caustic soda LYE
Certain diving duck SMEW
Certain permit holder LEARNER
Cod kin HADDOCK
Coffeehouse sweet SCONE
Colonial soldier? ARMYANT
Crept furtively SLUNK
Decay, as flowers DIEAWAY
Drop the ball, literally or figuratively ERR
Duck valued for its down EIDER
Easily flexed PLIANT
Eyelash shape ARC
Faux follower? PAS
Filthy ___ (illicit gain) LUCRE
Full of energy BOUNCY
Gangling LANKY
Genderless possessive ITS
Invitation sender HOST
Irish or Welsh ancestor CELT
Is composed of HAS
It could be used for paint removal WIREBRUSH
It may cause a bad trip LSD
Joe DiMaggio's nickname or barber YANKEECLIPPER
Clues Answers
Less important classifications SUBTYPES
Major bloodline AORTA
Melodious composition ARIOSO
Metal in the rough ORE
Mu ___ pork SHU
Not-to-do list TABOOS
Novelist Deighton LEN
Oversaw RAN
Peacock network NBC
Place for hangers CLOSET
Place for hope? CHEST
Play the peacemaker APPEASE
Port-au-Prince's place HAITI
Positions in bridge columns EASTS
Puerto ___ RICO
Rapid raid FORAY
Raven remark CAW
Resign or detrain STEPDOWN
Script that executes a series of computer commands BATCHFILE
Short-supply item, in a drought WATER
Show the way, in a way POINT
Slender daggers STYLETS
Star bursts NOVAE
Synagogue official RABBI
Tackles the QB for a loss SACKS
That lady's pronoun HER
Three-syllable poetic passages ANAPESTS
Tissue brand KLEENEX
Trade-___ (some used cars) INS
Trendy CHIC
TV control (Abbr.) VOL
Type of crew cut FLATTOP
Wealthy one, in a noted dichotomy HAVE
Weep and wail BAWL
Word on a nickel CENTS
Word with "mouse" or "launch" PAD
Words spoken in front of witnesses IDO
___ polloi HOI