USA Today - Sep 29 2015

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Clues Answers
"Let me think . . ." HMM
"Odyssey" sorceress CIRCE
"Psycho" actress Miles VERA
"The Price Is Right" announcer Don PARDO
"We ___ not amused" ARE
"What a pity!" ALAS
"What ___ can I say?" ELSE
"___ Leroy" (Frances E.W. Harper novel) IOLA
About ORSO
After-hours school grp PTA
Ain't the way it should be? ARENT
Alternative to "window" AISLE
Apple discard CORE
Arabian Sea native OMANI
Atlantic eagle ERNE
Awake and moving about ASTIR
Bakery "extra" AROMA
Cause of an explosion IRE
Certain Stooge MOE
Country dance formation LINE
Crew rower OAR
Cry like a kitten MEWL
Cut, as coupons SNIP
Deer mother DOE
Didn't slouch SATUP
Distress causers TORMENTORS
Do the wrong thing ERR
Dramatic part ROLE
Emcee's specialty INTRO
Firefighter's signal ALARM
Force looking out for shoplifters STOREDETECTIVES
Functions USES
Get closer NEAR
Go to a lower gear DECLUTCH
Grandfather clock number VIII
Great Lakes city ERIE
Hairy primates APES
Hardly tight LOOSE
Hatching places NESTS
Clues Answers
Hawaiian freebie LEI
Homemade orange juice feature PULP
Impressive style ELAN
Invented, linguistically COINED
Its capital is Tehran IRAN
Jack-in-the-pulpit's family ARUM
Job or career LIVELIHOOD
Last-place finisher LOSER
Long fishes EELS
Medical practitioners, for short DOCS
Miss America's accessory SASH
More than 90 degrees OBTUSE
Not bottled, as beer ONTAP
Note of the music scale SOL
Peninsula near Hong Kong MACAU
Pigeon sounds COOS
Place for a band HEAD
Prefix for "meter" or "scope" PERI
Prefix with "gon" OCTA
Pro basketball venue ARENA
Put out, as a fire DOUSE
Rounded hammer part PEEN
Santa ___, California ROSA
Send out EMIT
Stereotypically "blind" official UMP
Twenty short hundredweight TON
Typical mall anchor DEPARTMENTSTORE
Unit of pressure PASCAL
Use a pogo stick HOP
Used one's credit OWED
Video game parlor ARCADE
Weight of a shipping container TARE
What the unsuspecting may have on a birthday? SURPRISEINSTORE
Where whalers go ASEA
Widespread epidemic PANDEMIC
Wild hog BOAR
Zip or vigor PEP
___ a high note ENDON
___ Gay ENOLA