USA Today - Dec 7 2015

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Clues Answers
"1984" author George ORWELL
"Before," when before PRE
"Nights in White ___" (Moody Blues hit) SATIN
"Over there!" LOOK
And others, briefly ETAL
Any pro hockey player SKATER
Appropriate SUITED
Authority to decide SAYSO
Barely make EKEOUT
Baseball scorecard notation ERROR
Be silver-spoon-fed? LIVEALIFEOFEASE
Belief statement or doctrine CREDO
Benatar of rock PAT
Binder of bundles BALER
Body shops' concerns DENTS
Book of the Old Testament EZRA
Bright star NOVA
Carve, as into memory ETCH
Castle on a board ROOK
Catches a base stealer NABS
Chatter idly PRATE
Chicken part LEG
Chill-inducing EERIE
Christiania, now OSLO
Close associates PALS
Common title word THE
Conceitedness EGOISM
Consultants, at heart? ULT
Cozy rooms DENS
Cram into the overhead STOW
Cut, as wood SAWED
Depend (on) RELY
Does more than walks TROTS
Evil look LEER
Executor's concern WILL
Exemplar of thinness RAIL
Fiery gemstone OPAL
Filmdom's Myrna LOY
Follows a recipe direction STIRS
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Frequently, in rhyme OFT
Frying need PAN
Give off or send forth EMIT
Giving a hoot? OWLISH
Got down ALIT
Granny Smith, for one APPLE
Hardly tanned PALE
Hindu lute SITAR
Ingredient in many lotions ALOE
Int'l relief org. for kids UNICEF
Knock-down-drag-outs BRAWLS
Ladybug's snack APHID
Like a royal heir BORNTOTHEPURPLE
Like a wink SLY
Middle ears? COBS
Monopoly piece IRON
Most faithful TRUEST
Mysterious matters ARCANA
Neither here ___ there NOR
One of the Jackson 5 TITO
Pertaining to bone OSTEAL
Raise or elevate UPREAR
Raised, as a bet UPPED
Reluctantly find something to do PASSAWAYTHETIME
Ringo the drummer STARR
Rudd of Hollywood PAUL
Seeps through cracks OOZES
Send abroad EXPORT
Shakespeare's "The Taming of the ___" SHREW
Stage platforms RISERS
The highest point APEX
Transports with runners SLEDS
Warhead carrier, for short ICBM
Was in first place LED
Watched an encore presentation RESAW
Wet, as morning grass DEWY
With lots of vegetation LUSH
___ gin fizz SLOE
___ Valley, Calif NAPA