USA Today - Jan 31 2018

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Clues Answers
"Drake" poet Alfred NOYES
"Enchanted" girl of kid-lit ELLA
"Rise and shine!" GETUP
"___ and bear it" GRIN
Act in concert UNITE
Actress Lucy in her salad days? TEENAGERLIU
Aerialist's feat STUNT
Airborne package deliverer of the future DRONE
Aussie bounder ROO
Bane of rye crops ERGOT
Bench-clearing brawls MELEES
Big bother ADO
Board game turn, perhaps SPIN
Boozehound, for short DIPSO
Bugs' Blanc MEL
Captive's plea LETMEGO
Climb the corporate ladder RISE
Cole Porter's regretful Miss OTIS
Country club figure PRO
Cribbage markers PEGS
Desert one's post GOAWOL
Display, as charm EXUDE
Does a fairway chore MOWS
Dorothy's followers in Oz? GALERETINUE
Dwarf planet named for a goddess ERIS
Empty, as a threat IDLE
Fall Out Boy's music genre EMO
Fats Waller's "___ Misbehavin'" AINT
Genesis of a patent IDEA
Give a keynote address, e.g ORATE
GPA part GRADE
Had the early bird special, say ATE
High-IQ columnist Marilyn ___ Savant VOS
Huck, to Tom PAL
In a bit, to a bard ANON
Indiana's state flower PEONY
Instrument struck with a mallet GONG
Jotted down WROTE
Kingly or queenly REGAL
Clues Answers
Letters before omicrons XIS
Like a tuned guitar string TAUT
Made more bearable EASED
Make ecstatic ELATE
Manuscript recipient EDITOR
Means of escape OUTS
Measurer of public opinion since 1935 GALLUPPOLL
Mesabi Range yield ORE
Miss the mark ERR
Moscow's ___ Square RED
Most birds do it AVIATE
Mushy fare PAP
New hire at the adhesives factory? GLUETRAINEE
Not quite dry DAMP
Originator, as of a musical style PROGENITOR
Peas holder POD
Pig ___ (luau event) ROAST
Place for a cummerbund WAIST
Potpourri bit PETAL
Pre-migraine sensation AURA
Prefix with -centric or -maniac EGO
Purpose of a vacation, often REST
Randall of "The Odd Couple" TONY
Regret bitterly RUE
Results of an accurate DNA test? TRUELINEAGE
Robbed during a riot LOOTED
Santa Anna victory site ALAMO
Shade similar to khaki TAN
Shoot-'em-up WESTERN
Sport ___ (versatile vehicle) UTE
Take it all off PEEL
Tomato in tomato paste ROMA
Tree with catkins ALDER
Turner played by Angela Bassett TINA
Ump's call after "Time!" PLAY
Unload on Craigslist SELL
Wasn't in the starting lineup SAT
Watch intently PEERAT
What tongues or tails may do WAG