USA Today - Dec 8 2015

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Clues Answers
"Cogito, ___ sum" ERGO
"Comin' ___ the Rye" THRO
"For heaven's ___!" SAKE
"Smoking or ___?" NON
"Without further ___ . . ." ADO
1,000 kilograms, to a Brit TONNE
A Scottish loch NESS
Aahs' kin OOHS
Actress Madeline and others KAHNS
And so forth, briefly ETC
Append ADD
Artist's pigment OCHER
Asia's fast-shrinking ___ Sea ARAL
Assemblymen? ERECTORS
Billy Dee's "The Empire Strikes Back" role LANDO
Bleachers level TIER
Boring tool TREPAN
Calculus calculations AREAS
Celebratory poems ODES
Christian who created the "New Look" DIOR
Clean enough to eat off SPOTLESS
Clearasil target ACNE
Congers and morays EELS
Crystal-bearing rock GEODE
Curl one's lip SNEER
Dark brown fur SABLE
De-squeak OIL
Do more than tap one's toe DANCE
Exercise units SETS
Flowers' homes POTS
Heart and soul ESSENCE
Heaviest noble gas RADON
Il ___ (Mussolini's title) DUCE
Inflatable thing EGO
Interstate sign EXIT
It's 90 degrees away? AROUNDTHECORNER
Jaunty and stylish PERT
Joe Flacco might do it PASS
Clues Answers
Jog like a horse TROT
Jump on the ice AXEL
Large-scale dismissal PURGE
Like ghost stories EERIE
Like Hamelin's piper PIED
Long overcoat ULSTER
Long, long ___ AGO
Moving twitchily SPASTIC
Nabisco cookie OREO
Nearby ACROSSTHESTREET
Neural transmitters AXONS
Not a place for an actor BEHINDTHESCENES
Omit, in speech ELIDE
Ooze through SEEP
Owl sound HOOT
Part of a carrot ROOT
Paving block SETT
Persia, nowadays IRAN
Place of many shootouts WILDWEST
Popular breath mints CERTS
Property holder OWNER
Pry SNOOP
Psychic ability ESP
Radiate, as charm EXUDE
Ridiculously inadequate PATHETIC
Right-hand page RECTO
Rolls out a lawn SODS
Sand hill DUNE
Set on fire LIT
Simple bed COT
Small buzzing pest GNAT
Small energy units ERGS
Solo LONE
Some pets CATS
Spitballs, e.g WADS
Ten, scalewise IDEAL
Twilled woolen fabric SERGE
What little things mean? ALOT