USA Today - Oct 18 2016

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Clues Answers
"In the headlights" animal DEER
"Winnie-the-Pooh" author AAMILNE
Acts the shrew NAGS
After-school org PTA
Aids in crime ABETS
Apply gently DAB
Area 51 creatures, it's said ETS
Badlands formation MESA
Baggage-inspecting org TSA
Bar mixer SODA
Beast of burden ASS
Big Apple tennis venue ASHE
Bird in a Hooters logo OWL
Blew it ERRED
Bossa nova cousins SAMBAS
Break a fast EAT
Building detail, briefly SPEC
Burn, as with hot coffee SCALD
Cheese similar to Parmesan ASIAGO
Circumnavigator Bly NELLIE
Crepe ___ (dessert) SUZETTE
English majors' degs BAS
Face the hurler BAT
Faddish berry ACAI
Feared fly TSETSE
Flea market caveat ASIS
French fashion magazine ELLE
Get ___ of (dump) RID
Gives a heads-up to WARNS
Goalie's milieu NET
Grand ___ Opry OLE
Hair snarl TANGLE
Hamburg's river ELBE
Helsinki natives FINNS
Homer's neighbor on "The Simpsons" NED
Hullabaloo ADO
ID checker's concern AGE
Impossible NFL score ONE
In addition ELSE
Clues Answers
Israeli author Oz AMOS
Jai alai basket CESTA
Kind of eclipse SOLAR
Large section of an atlas ASIA
Largish combo OCTET
Letters on the Gerald R. Ford USS
Like the steppes TREELESS
Manhattan's East Harlem, colloquially ELBARRIO
Nametag word HELLO
Old navy man SALT
Organ with a drum EAR
Overly prim and precise sorts PRISSES
Pentagon, e.g SHAPE
People to hang with PALS
Planet, poetically ORB
Protestant work ___ ETHIC
Resistance unit OHM
Rise on hind legs REARUP
Rolle of "Good Times" ESTHER
Rotunda topper DOME
Sacred serpents of Egypt ASPS
Scungilli, calamari, etc SEAFOOD
Shia counterpart SUNNI
Shortstop or second base (Abbr.) POS
Some glee club members ALTOS
Starbucks selection LATTE
Support above a door LINTEL
The Fujita scale measures it TORNADOSTRENGTH
The Marx Brothers' straight man ZEPPO
The Mohs scale measures it MINERALHARDNESS
The Scoville scale measures it PEPPERHOTNESS
Tibia's place SHIN
Triumphs over BESTS
Voicemail items (Abbr.) MSGS
Well-worn pencil STUB
Whittle down PARE
Xenophobe's dread ALIEN
___ Bo (fitness system) TAE
___ Major (constellation) URSA