USA Today - Jan 2 2017

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"Bend It Like Beckham" game SOCCER
"Free Willy" creature ORCA
5-Across, colloquially MOOLA
Any "Seinfeld" episode, now RERUN
Arrange in tight braids CORNROW
Barge's back STERN
Be short, in a way OWE
Beet with edible leaves CHARD
Being chilled ONICE
Bench-clearing brawl MELEE
Bug-eyed AGOG
California's Santa ___ Park ANITA
Caterer's appliance STEAMTABLE
Cinematic segment SCENE
Days before holidays EVES
Do origami FOLD
Donald Duck's nephews, e.g TRIO
Eye wolfishly OGLE
Fatalist's fate KISMET
Feeling in many Woody Allen movies ANGST
Finger on directional signs INDEX
Following closely behind INTOW
Get a kick out of ENJOY
Get decked out DRESS
Good luck charm AMULET
Grape soda seen on "M*A*S*H" NEHI
In flight ALOFT
In the past ONCE
Iridescent stone OPAL
Keep in a warehouse STORE
Kind of bear in Coke commercials POLAR
Koala bear, guinea pig or prairie dog MISNOMER
Lays waste to RUINS
Legal tender CASH
Low man at the opera BASSO
Nancy of the comics, to Fritzi Ritz NIECE
Not kidding around EARNEST
Not quite a whopper FIB
Notable period ERA
Clues Answers
Play for a patsy USE
Pre-med college course BIO
Pro-___ (some tourneys) AMS
Purple gem AMETHYST
PxP, for one MOVE
Recyclables holder BIN
Repurposed T-shirt, maybe RAG
Saw through childhood RAISED
Scale topper, often TEN
Send, as to a second doctor REFER
Shot, for short HYPO
Sizable, like a fine HEFTY
Sneaker feature introduced by Nike WAFFLESOLE
Snooty sort SNOB
Soc. Sec. supplements for many IRAS
Some jar deposits TIPS
Sports item made of granite CURLINGSTONE
Spots for gutters EAVES
Spy novelist Deighton LEN
Squids' squirts INKS
Step dancer's dance JIG
Streaker in the night sky SHOOTINGSTAR
Supermarket sections AISLES
Synagogue cabinets ARKS
Teakettle's place STOVE
The Tin Woodman's tool AXE
Thomas Hardy's "Pure Woman" TESS
Three of TV's Brady Bunch SONS
Tribute in verse ODE
Turkey meat option DARK
Wading-in-a-puddle sound SLOSH
Washington state's Sea-___ Airport TAC
Weather vane's spot ROOF
Win the affection of ENDEAR
Without company LONE
Woman in an order NUN
You might take one lying down REST
Ziering of "Sharknado" movies IAN
___ ghanoush (eggplant dish) BABA