USA Today - Aug 28 2017

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Clues Answers
"Alternative ___" (falsehoods) FACTS
"Ghostbusters" goo SLIME
"Not in this lifetime!" NEVER
"Shall we proceed?" READY
Acropolis site ATHENS
Any of five on an 18-wheeler AXLE
Bird also called a fish hawk OSPREY
Blacken on the barbecue CHAR
Breaker of a mental block IDEA
Brewery need MALT
Canyon viewing spot RIM
Cardiologist's concern HEARTRATE
Cleanup crew's target MESS
Command after 30-Across, often STAY
Contract detail TERM
Crab leg count TEN
Declare false DENY
Dismissed abruptly AXED
Do penance ATONE
Dwindle to nothing PETEROUT
Evidence of a workout SWEAT
Fire drill objective EXIT
Fish market's ambience ODOR
Fortnight halves WEEKS
Frog-eating wader EGRET
Groggy state DAZE
Had a 43-Across about FEARED
Harvesters' hauls CROPS
High schoolers' bad marks? ZITS
Landing-hr. guess ETA
Lender's holding LIEN
Like cheeks in winter, perhaps ROSY
Machinist's workplace METALSHOP
Many moons ago ONCE
Meals for mares OATS
Obedience school command SIT
One in a playpen TYKE
One to 2-Down IDOL
Paper deliverer's assignment ROUTE
Clues Answers
Placed, as a wager LAID
Pot starter ANTE
Praise to the skies EXALT
Quite often ALOT
Race winners may break them TAPES
Rallying calls CRIES
Regard as DEEM
Relax, as rules EASE
Remove any trace of ERASE
Response to "Are you hurt?" IMOK
Reveals, as teeth BARES
Say "amen," say AGREE
Scoundrel's lack SHAME
Search a la Indiana Jones QUEST
Sergio of spaghetti westerns LEONE
Serve as a caregiver to TEND
Shows at trade shows DEMOS
Songbird common in suburban areas WREN
Specially formed, as a committee ADHOC
Spectrum component HUE
Sprays with a spray bottle MISTS
St. Patrick's Day baby's sign PISCES
Take charge STEPIN
Take the advice of HEED
Tesla and Volt AUTOS
Theater-in-the-round setting ARENA
Ticket for a makeup game RAINCHECK
Took a chairlift, say RODE
Took down a notch LESSENED
Toy that requires two SEESAW
Treads wearily PLODS
Tree along a suburban street ELM
Undetectable to the naked eye, perhaps TINY
Uneasy feeling QUALM
Vanilla-flavored soft drink CREAMSODA
Western casino city RENO
Word that can precede the first parts of 17- and 60-Across and 11- and 35-Down HEAVY
Worthy of a blue ribbon BEST
Zellweger who played Bridget Jones RENEE