USA Today - Dec 21 2013

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Clues Answers
"A Room of One's Own" author WOOLF
"Be that ___ may . . ." ASIT
"Filthy" money LUCRE
"Hey, bud!" PSST
"Lord, is ___?" ITI
1912 Olympic Games star THORPE
200 milligrams, to a jeweler CARAT
40-day observance LENT
512,000 drams TON
Ampersand, for one SIGN
Animal bone preservers TARPITS
Badges with handles IDTAGS
Begin, for example ISRAELI
Blue Jays' home, formerly SKYDOME
Brings up REARS
Canal of Sal, in song ERIE
Carl of "Cosmos" SAGAN
Champagne word SEC
Cosby show ISPY
Don't-care attitude APATHY
Dry, as tobacco leaves CURE
English actor Holm IAN
Fifties server CARHOP
Firma front TERRA
First beer container for the gang? STARTINGPITCHER
Fish on an unconventional line? SHOESTRINGCATCH
For men only STAG
Freaked out HADAFIT
Frost lines? POETRY
Hall of fame? ARSENIO
Holey fabric MESH
Hotshot pilot ACE
Kind of year FISCAL
Like the eye of a storm CALM
Lucy's pal ETHEL
Man without manners CAD
Minestrone, for one SOUP
Monotheistic impossibility GODS
Clues Answers
On target TRUE
On the line ATRISK
One name for a heart test ECG
One of TV's Huxtables THEO
Ouch inducer PAIN
Oxen connections YOKES
Pancake topper, perhaps OLEO
Part of many titles THE
Parts of irises PUPILS
Pessimist's projection DOOM
Philadelphia school LASALLE
Pick up GAIN
Pine ACHE
Pita sandwich GYRO
Platter player HIFI
Playground with little girls? SWINGSANDMISSES
Polluter's crime ECOCIDE
Preceder of many words? INSO
Pt. of ERA AVG
Reach an equilibrium EVENOUT
Respond to the alarm WAKE
Sardine container TIN
Shell competitor HESS
Singer John ELTON
Spy plane of the '60s UTWO
Start of Cain's query AMI
Steer here HELM
Swindle CHISEL
Theological sch SEM
Trace of smoke WISP
Tylenol alternative ANACIN
Type of song or dive SWAN
Union locale ALTAR
Word before "Blastoff!" ONE
Words of compassion ICARE
Yoga position LOTUS
___ lazuli LAPIS
___ Rica COSTA