USA Today - Sep 12, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Over the Rainbow" composer Harold	ARLEN
Andrea ___ (ill-fated vessel)	DORIA
Antitheses of midnights	NOONS
Astronomical distance	PARSEC
Ayatollah's decree	FATWA
Betray shame	REDDEN
Big bang cause?	TNT
Bravo starter	RIO
British lunch	TIFFIN
Carmakers' defect notices	RECALLS
Castle tower	TURRET
Cayuse catcher	LARIAT
Cheerful little earful	DITTY
Chuck Berry title girl	NADINE
Core substances	PITHS
Covered in fireplace residue	ASHY
Decrease	LESSEN
Desperately dry	ARID
Dreaded headline at the post office?	DOGBITESMAN
Fairly insignificant cards	TREYS
Feel the weight of the day	DROOP
For any reason	ATALL
Gives a thumbs-up	ASSENTS
Had longings	YEARNED
Had more than a thirst for	NEEDED
Hindu doctrine	TANTRA
Hon or sweetheart	DEARY
Indian governor	NAWAB
It's full of gas	BLIMP
Lacking a point	INANE
Lacquer part	RESIN
Like some cycles	LUNAR
Made up for	ATONED
Make illegal	BAN
Makes famous	RENOWNS
Meet squarely	FACE
Not easily caught	SLY
One of the Muppets	ERNIE
One who looks up and yells "duck"?	BIRDWATCHER
Operatives' org	CIA
Pac-12 athlete	UTE
Partakes of	HAS
Party vessel	KEG
Passive demonstration	SITIN
Pearl Harbor Day mo	DEC
Place for a carnation	LAPEL
Possible hockey result	TIE
Report of 1964	WARREN
Retirement asset	IRA
Sci-fi classic of 1979	ALIEN
Skin fold	PLICA
Social conclusion?	ISM
Some pet lovers	CATFANCIERS
Songs for divas	ARIAS
Sounds heard in most offices	MOUSECLICKS
Startles	SCARES
Stiffly theatrical	STAGY
Stream denizen	TROUT
Tail movement	WAG
Take the place of	PREEMPT
Tax expert (Abbr.)	CPA
Textile type	RAYON
Turned loose	FREED
Twelve-year-old, e.g	PRETEEN
Two-time South African PM	SMUTS
UN workers grp	ILO
Unpopular facial spots	ACNE
Washerwoman sculptor	RENOIR
Well-known loch	NESS
White vestments	ALBS
Words following "bend" or "lend"	ANEAR
Wren residences	NESTS
Yield	RELENT
___ Arbor, Mich	ANN