USA Today - Dec 3 2017

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Clues Answers
"Bear" in old Qantas ads KOALA
"I ___ the fool . . ." (Mr. T catchphrase) PITY
"That's What I Like" singer Bruno MARS
"This round's ___" ONME
"Told you so!" ICALLEDIT
$5 bill, slangily ABE
Abbr. for a former general RET
Acrobatic team's formation HUMANPYRAMID
Ammo for a toy gun CAP
Anti-mob act, for short RICO
Battle site of 1914 and 1918 MARNE
Beetle Bailey's dimwitted pal ZERO
Border collies, notably SHEEPDOGS
Boxing's "Louisville Lip" ALI
Breed like salmon SPAWN
Broke bread ATE
Canned meat since 1937 SPAM
Chops finely, as potatoes RICES
Color on San Jose Sharks jerseys TEAL
Control within a government machine BOSSISM
Cork's land (Abbr.) IRE
CSI part CRIME
Currency of Jordan DINAR
Did the trick WORKED
Divide into shares ALLOT
Dracula, in animal form BAT
Editor's margin mark STET
Eliot's Gus or Macavity CAT
Feel below par AIL
Fields of expertise AREAS
Got teary WEPT
Haggard who sang "Okie From Muskogee" MERLE
Harper of "Tender Mercies" TESS
Has a yen for WANTS
High-decibel confusion DIN
In reserve ASIDE
Loutish sort CAD
Mantle or Jeter, for short YANK
Martinez in Cooperstown PEDRO
Clues Answers
Microchipped family member, perhaps PET
Milieu for Republicans and Democrats POLITICALSPHERE
Mom-and-pop enterprise STORE
Net-nicking serve LET
Not very much ABIT
NPR journalist Shapiro ARI
Of practical value UTILE
Old hands PROS
Out, like a library book LOANED
Papal proclamation EDICT
Part of an ignition system LOCKCYLINDER
Part of Bush's "axis of evil" IRAN
Pastors, rabbis et al CLERICS
Pile up AMASS
Pitter-patter maker RAIN
Planter's implement SEEDER
Protected migratory bird EGRET
Put up with ABIDE
Reduce to mush PUREE
Region encompassing present-day France GAUL
Runway stance POSE
Seller of KARLSTAD sofas IKEA
Shakers leader ___ Lee ANN
Small burger SLIDER
Snake that did Cleopatra in ASP
Sounds from a wowed crowd GASPS
Spanish naval port CADIZ
Take five REST
Tell-all book, for short BIO
Terminal listing, informally SKED
Took in or shortened, say ALTERED
Took the reins LED
Trig ratio COS
Witherspoon of "Walk the Line" REESE
Word after stuffed or empty SHIRT
Word-for-word LITERAL
Yellow dog of the comics ODIE
___ blue (gown color of song) ALICE
___ Skeeter (character in Harry Potter movies) RITA