USA Today - Nov 8 2017

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Clues Answers
"Dare" alternative, in a party game TRUTH
"Stop shaking me!" IMUP
"The Divine Comedy" poet DANTE
"___ in the course of human events . . ." WHEN
2017 hurricane after Irma JOSE
Alley Oop's weapon CLUB
Approve, as a law RATIFY
Arrange a date for FIXUP
Babies in pouches JOEYS
Baked potato toppers, perhaps BUTTERPATS
Belittle, slangily DIS
Bleating source of milk EWE
Cagney impersonator's phrase DIRTYRAT
Carb-rich vegetable, slangily SPUD
Cheeky talk SASS
Church tower sound PEAL
Cod fishermen's gear SEINES
Colonist in a hill ANT
Comerica Park nine TIGERS
Couple's clash LOVERSSPAT
Cowpoke's rope RIATA
Curling venues RINKS
Daybreak, in verse MORN
Dead on one's feet BUSHED
Deep-dish pizza holder PAN
Drink brewed from petals ROSETEA
Egg boiler's aid TIMER
Enjoy a soak BATHE
Facetious nickname for a big guy TINY
Female Leghorn HEN
For face value ATPAR
Goes to seed ROTS
Incorporate, as the U.S. did Texas ANNEX
Initials on a packed house SRO
It's not yet in history books RECENTPAST
Jabs, from most boxers LEFTS
Levine of Maroon 5 ADAM
Like gruel THIN
Like the worm-catcher, in a saying EARLY
Clues Answers
Lounge pianists may take them REQUESTS
Lumbar punctures SPINALTAPS
Magic dragon of song PUFF
Maroon's home ISLE
Mend with thread DARN
Messages often typed with thumbs TEXTS
Midriff muscles, briefly ABS
MLB draft decisions PICKS
Needing a rubdown, perhaps SORE
OPEC charter member IRAN
Oratorio highlight ARIA
Outermost orbital point APOGEE
Pair on a king or jack FACES
Partake of a smorgasbord EAT
Peace offering that's passed PIPE
Place to brown buns OVEN
Plantation units ACRES
Pop group with a Stockholm museum ABBA
Puff up, as an ego BLOAT
Quarter's threesome MONTHS
Quipster Colbert STEPHEN
Read, as a bar code SCAN
River between Earth and Hades STYX
Sighed interjection ALAS
Smudges on test papers, perhaps ERASURES
Sound of a blender blade WHIR
Start a phone call DIAL
Tara of "Sharknado" REID
Teetotalers' quaffs SODAS
That certain something MYSTIQUE
Theater or church worker USHER
Tights mishaps RIPS
Top scores from a "Dancing With the Stars" judge TENS
Tree with fluttering leaves ASPEN
Trigonometry function SINE
Wearing road grays, say AWAY
Word after "&," in business names SONS
Word after New or golden AGER
___ stick (classic toy) POGO