USA Today - Dec 23 2019

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Clues Answers
'Aah,' to a back rub, say RESPONSE
'Right on!' YOUSAIDIT
'That's great news!' IMSOGLAD
'That's horrible!' OHNO
'You should know better!' TSK
All ready SET
Basic unit of heredity GENE
Believer's suffix IST
Big-top performances CIRCUSACTS
Camera lens part IRIS
Competed in sprints and such RANTRACK
Cookie brand since 1975 FAMOUSAMOS
Country south of South Sudan UGANDA
Down with something ILL
Error in judgment LAPSE
Even score TIE
Far from smooth ROCKY
Fashion designer Michael KORS
First national restaurant chain to post calorie counts PANERA
Flower that's an anagram of 'tears' ASTER
Forum wrap TOGA
Furtive 'Hey!' PSST
Game played on horseback POLO
Get under control TAME
Gives in to gravity SAGS
Glossy fabric SATIN
Go on and on YAP
Goes diving SCUBAS
Goodyear product TIRE
Green light ASSENT
Haunted house scream BOO
Healthy lunch TOFUSALAD
Howled at the moon BAYED
Industrious bug ANT
Insert and Delete, for two KEYS
Island east of Java BALI
Issa of 'Insecure' RAE
Janelle of 'Moonlight' MONAE
Kerfuffle ADO
Clues Answers
Leave in the lurch STRAND
Long blog comment, perhaps RANT
Make public AIR
Movie ticket remnant STUB
Nimble AGILE
Not yet achieved, as goals UNMET
Number on a foam finger ONE
Off in the distance AFAR
Order to Rover COME
Part of a bout ROUND
Piques, as curiosity AROUSES
Praise highly LAUD
Put on, as a play STAGE
Resistance group REBELS
Rice on a bookshelf ANNE
Seamless transitions SEGUES
Short-term job GIG
Similar ALIKE
Sistine Chapel ceiling figure ADAM
Sneaky tactics PLOYS
Some Bangkok Post readers THAIS
Some wall posters PINUPS
Source of hubris EGO
Source of light SUN
Spill cleaners MOPS
Steal, as a toy DOGNAP
Stretchy fabric LYCRA
Suffers a defeat LOSES
Sunscreen additive ALOE
Superstitious fan's backward garment RALLYCAP
Take hold of GRIP
Tan on a bookshelf AMY
Tender-hearted SOFT
Tony! Toni! Tone!, e.g TRIO
Unlikely to support a crowdfunding project STINGY
Verdi opera set in Egypt AIDA
Witness's place STAND
Wordless 'How dare you?!' SLAP
Writes a program CODES