USA Today - Dec 14 2016

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Clues Answers
"Aw, c'mon!" FORPETESSAKE
"Hamlet," for one DRAMA
Alpha's opposite OMEGA
Apply graffiti, in a way SPRAY
Backspace over ERASE
Bill with a political talk show MAHER
Botanist's specimen PLANT
Boy Scouts group TROOP
Bundle of grain SHEAF
Caught some Z's SLEPT
Cause to yawn BORE
Chicago air hub OHARE
Classic tale of Troy ILIAD
Clearasil target ACNE
Composer Bartok BELA
Danica Patrick, for one RACER
Dark time for poets EEN
Dickens' Heep URIAH
Early Greek physician GALEN
Epitome of thinness RAIL
Estrada of "CHiPs" ERIK
Feeling of hunger or guilt PANG
Forge implement ANVIL
Game surface BOARD
Geologic span EPOCH
Get ___ of (dump) RID
Grp. with co-pays HMO
Had a sit-down MET
Hail, to Caesar AVE
Half a sawbuck FIN
Hall of talk TV ARSENIO
Hem and haw STALL
Home to Pythagoras IONIA
Huck Finn, to Tom Sawyer PAL
In times past AGO
IV solution SALINE
Letters to teen idols FANMAIL
Loads with cargo LADES
MacGraw of "Love Story" ALI
Clues Answers
Mischief maker IMP
Monkey or ape SIMIAN
Not worth a plugged nickel USELESS
Othello and kin MOORS
Pass receiver's miscue DROP
Perjures oneself LIES
Pesto ingredient BASIL
Pick up on GET
Piglet's parent SOW
Plumber's tool SNAKE
Pub quaffs ALES
Pulled up stakes MOVED
Radius neighbor ULNA
Road or roofing stuff TAR
Rocky's training sequence, e.g MONTAGE
Sacred bird of Egypt IBIS
Sarcastic in manner SNARKY
See 39-Down MAJOR
Shade of black JET
Shape of some charts PIE
Slug's trail SLIME
Smart ___ (wise guy) ALECK
Smooth, in a way SAND
Still in contention ALIVE
Succinct, like a proverb PITHY
Suffix with real or sex ISM
Syrup flavor MAPLE
Term applied to Goldman Sachs in 2008 TOOBIGTOFAIL
Thick-skinned herbivore, for short RHINO
Three Musketeers motto word ALL
Treasure hunter's need MAP
Twenty Questions answer YES
Was a glutton ATELIKEAPIG
Was victorious, but not by knockout WONONPOINTS
Who's position, in a comedy routine FIRST
With 11-Down, Big Dipper's constellation URSA
Word after lip or speed READER
Young fellow LAD
___ wave (trigonometry plot) SINE