USA Today - Dec 23 2022

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Clues Answers
'Better ___ than never!' LATE
'Doctor Who' network BBC
'RuPaul's Drag Race Holi-___ Spectacular' SLAY
'The Catcher in the ___' RYE
'The ___ Games' HUNGER
'wow!!!' OMG
'You may ___ me in the very dirt/But still, like dust, I'll rise' (Angelou) TROD
A ___ of the tongue SLIP
Alley-___ OOP
Amal Clooney (___ Alamuddin) NEE
Attach with heat IRONON
Attention-grabbing whisper PSST
Bad thing to end on SOURNOTE
Basics ABCS
Be dishonest LIE
Behinds REARS
Bird in the USPS logo EAGLE
Bit of good fortune LUCKYBREAK
Boxing endings, for short KOS
By a whisker BARELY
By mouth ORALLY
Cancel out NEGATE
Chocolaty coffee MOCHA
Cuisine known for baba ghanouj LEBANESE
Currency in Spain EURO
Degradation from regular use WEARANDTEAR
Flower on 'The Bachelorette' ROSE
Followed someone around on the job SHADOWED
Game with a bull's-eye DARTS
Gave one's take OPINED
Great time BLAST
Grow INCREASE
Had some jianbing ATE
Hazardous UNSAFE
How often some vitamins are taken ONCEADAY
However BUT
Human mind PSYCHE
Ice cream holder CONE
K-pop star IDOL
Clues Answers
Labor activist Chavez CESAR
Long period of time ERA
Long period of time EON
Massive HUGE
Moms in a coop HENS
Nabisco cookie OREO
Necessarily involved ENTAILED
Nevada Museum of Art city RENO
Number that's 'moja' in Swahili ONE
NYC arena, for short MSG
Off-kilter ASKEW
Old West fugitive OUTLAW
Patch up MEND
Performs like Monaleo RAPS
Phrase at the altar IDO
Pieces in Joan Didion's 'The White Album' ESSAYS
Profound DEEP
Relieved exclamation WHEW
Resident of the country northeast of Yemen OMANI
Romantic rendezvous TRYST
Salsa type MILD
Sheep's sound BAA
Spicy cookie GINGERSNAP
Spinach-loving sailor POPEYE
State animal of Utah ELK
Steak cut TBONE
Stop-motion sheep who lives at Mossy Bottom Farm SHAUN
Substantial HEFTY
Sudden surge ONRUSH
Tennis legend Arthur ASHE
Use a machete CHOP
Version longer than a theatrical release EXTENDEDCUT
Watering can part SPOUT
Went blond, for example DYED
Wood-splitting tool AXE
Writes some software CODES
___ and outs INS
___ box (Japanese meal) BENTO
___ choy (Chinese vegetable) BOK