USA Today - Jan 13 2018

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Clues Answers
"Great" or "lesser" creatures APES
"Spirit of '76" musician FIFER
"The Balcony" playwright Jean GENET
Airport serving Paris ORLY
Anthony's former shock-jock partner OPIE
Back, as a racehorse BETON
Bits of dialogue LINES
Brain or ear part LOBE
Buddy who played Jed Clampett EBSEN
Builder's purchase PLOT
Capacity of some shot glasses OUNCE
Car at a charging station TESLA
Classic partner of potatoes MEAT
Colossal nerve GALL
Dean's email address suffix EDU
Design on glass ETCH
Dish containing no 49-Across WELSHRABBIT
Does karaoke SINGS
Dutch explorer Tasman ABEL
Empty ___ syndrome (lonely feeling) NEST
Find abominable HATE
Flesh-and-blood REAL
Garden hose holder REEL
GI-entertaining group USO
Goals to strive for IDEALS
Google Maps suggestion ROUTE
Hamelin's infestation RATS
Handicrafts website ETSY
Holm who played King Lear IAN
Home of the NBA's Jazz UTAH
Honor with a dinner, say FETE
In one's birthday suit NAKED
In Touch Weekly subject, for short CELEB
It's 1, for a 90-degree angle SINE
It's really a reed instrument ENGLISHHORN
It's really a small area near the ulnar nerve FUNNYBONE
Jesse of the 1936 Olympics OWENS
Knock down a peg ABASE
Knock off CEASE
Clues Answers
Label launched by the Beatles APPLE
Lady Byng Trophy org NHL
Leads, as a band FRONTS
Long geologic stretches EONS
Mass assent AMEN
Mild Dutch cheese GOUDA
Monocle part LENS
Note in a poker pot, maybe IOU
Oblong tomato ROMA
Offer at Sotheby's BID
One of 40 in a classic punishment LASH
One-legged whaler of fiction AHAB
Perjurer's admission ILIED
Playbill listing CAST
Played for time STALLED
Political convention setting ARENA
Publishing or country music partner of McGraw HILL
Put up with ABIDE
Rock formed by cooling lava BASALT
Rush-job letters ASAP
Shakespeare's Kate, notably SHREW
Shrimp ___ Creole ALA
Site of Perry's naval victory ERIE
Soda brand named for a mountain SHASTA
Sound of boredom HOHUM
Sportage and Sorento automaker KIA
Strong cotton thread LISLE
Surgeon's blockage reliever STENT
T-men and G-men FEDS
Talk like a tosspot SLUR
Target, for Target LOGO
Thermos pattern, perhaps PLAID
Topper that originated in Ecuador PANAMAHAT
Trade verbal jabs SPAR
Tree of Life garden EDEN
Vehicle at auction, perhaps REPO
Wearers of tin stars LAWMEN
Where guests pay for drinks CASHBAR
With great urgency DIRELY