USA Today - Dec 28 2014

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Clues Answers
". . . man ___ mouse?" ORA
"CSI: Miami" star CARUSO
"To the max" suffix EST
"What ___ the odds?" ARE
A narcotic drug OPIATE
Acad. in Colorado Springs USAF
Analyze TEST
Answers to charges PLEAS
Architect's detail SPEC
Baseball, for one SPORT
Basic PUREANDSIMPLE
Burn on a grill SEAR
Burning remnant ASH
Casual hairstyle PONYTAIL
Certain birthstone OPAL
Chance occurrence PURECOINCIDENCE
Chubby PUDGY
Classical colonnade STOA
Coastal eagle ERNE
Compass line ARC
Conceited sort SNOB
Contented sound PURR
Cozy retreat at home DEN
Deli order, sometimes REUBEN
Director Spike LEE
Drug-resistant bacterium SUPERBUG
El ___, Spanish hero CID
Elizabethan collars RUFFS
End an Internet session LOGOFF
Examine diligently (with "over") PORE
Excellent human quality PURENESSOFHEART
Fertility goddess OPS
Fix, as a clock SET
Fluttering trees ASPENS
Football holders TEES
Fragrant root used in perfumes ORRIS
Galena and feldspar, for two ORES
Give free, as a ticket COMP
Clues Answers
Glasses piece LENS
Hollywood legend Marilyn MONROE
In the style of ALA
Italian province or its capital ASTI
Kind of rug or cat PERSIAN
Like a mad dog RABID
Like Hubbard's cupboard BARE
Luau dip POI
Meet, in poker SEE
Misspell, e.g ERR
Online store, e.g EBUSINESS
Oversharpened pencil? NUB
Period of light DAYTIME
Petty quarrels TIFFS
Plant pouches SACS
Prophetess SIBYL
Put to work USE
Raised UPREARED
Rebellion UPRISING
Representations of the mother of Jesus PIETAS
Rover's foot PAW
Saintly archbishop of Canterbury AUGUSTINE
Sanitary CLEAN
Scottish quick bread SCONE
Seafood with a shell OYSTER
Spicy topping SALSA
Starts the show OPENS
Suit size (Abbr.) REG
Super ___ (Nintendo system) NES
Takes certain vows WEDS
Trembling with fear TREPID
Type of car, nurse or sergeant STAFF
Vanna turnover? ANI
Visitors from space ALIENS
When the IRS gets a lot of mail (Abbr.) APR
Where whalers go ASEA
Which port in a storm? ANY
With a bow, musically ARCO