USA Today - Apr 17 2013 Crossword Answer

USA Today - Apr 17 2013 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"As you" or "as it" follower	WERE
"To be," to Brutus	ESSE
"___ contendere" (no contest plea)	NOLO
10-year prison sentence, in slang	DIME
Absorbs (with "up")	SOPS
Adjustable dress feature	HEM
Adventure novel's protagonist	HERO
Aerodynamically designed	SLEEK
Alumnus's keepsake	YEARBOOK
Another way to spell 33-Down	CZAR
Beaver endeavor	DAM
Becomes bogged down	MIRES
Beyond recharging	DEAD
Blessing	BOON
Box-seating area	LOGE
Cauterize cattle	DEHORN
Come clean	ADMIT
Couples	DUADS
Covered, as with gold	GILT
Creme-filled chocolate cookie	OREO
Dakota, once (Abbr.)	TERR
Damaged, as a fender	DENTED
Dead Sea artifact	SCROLL
Defunct airline	TWA
Delete from memory	ERASE
Devious maneuver	PLOY
Diamond covering	TARP
Do a pre-op chore	SCRUB
Doesn't hog	SHARES
Egyptian cobras	ASPS
Exude slowly	OOZE
Facility	EASE
Fall heavily into a chair	PLOP
Flower garden plots	BEDS
Gets on film	TAPES
Grassy plain	LLANO
Gumbo pod	OKRA
Hankerings	YENS

Clues	Answers
Have trouble deciding	SEESAW
Heron or flamingo	WADER
High rocky hills	TORS
Holy See resident	POPE
Joyous hymn	PAEAN
Mata Hari, for one	SPY
Microscopic swimmer (var.)	AMEBA
Middle of a sleeve	ELBOW
Model wood	BALSA
More than paroled	GRANTEDCLEMENCY
Muslim prince	EMIR
Mythical deity who creates discord	LOKI
Napped leather	SUEDE
Not perfectly upright	ATILT
Packed away	ATE
Pelted with certain ovoid objects	EGGED
Plan to catch a criminal	STAKEOUT
Pole with a blade	OAR
Pop up, as a question	ARISE
Pre-Soviet royalty	TSAR
Prop for Rembrandt	EASEL
Radiant glows	AURAS
Ripken, the Baltimore legend	CAL
Shrek, for one	OGRE
Sierra ___	LEONE
Snip a snap	CROP
Somewhat wet	DAMP
Sorceress who aided Jason's quest	MEDEA
Springtime wear, for some ladies	POLKADOTDRESSES
The embryo of an invention	IDEA
The written word	PROSE
Tito Puente music style	SALSA
To boot	ASWELL
Trust in (with "on")	RELY
Turkish bath	SAUNA
Type of citizenship	DUAL
What hoops dangle from	PIERCEDEARLOBES
___ Bator, Mongolia	ULAN