USA Today - Mar 4 2021

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Clues Answers
'Bet you ___ see that coming' DIDNT
'Plus, another thing . . .' ANDALSO
'Quiet down!' SHH
'Sounds real believable' SURE
'___ Morrison: The Pieces I Am' TONI
Abu ___, UAE DHABI
Appliance at a pizza place OVEN
Awesome RAD
Baton Rouge sch LSU
Boxing endings, for short KOS
Bread that might accompany kheer PURI
Bumpy animal TOAD
Buy another year of RENEW
Cheerful PERKY
College Board test SAT
Conversate with TALKTO
Decline to decide DEFER
Distress signal at sea SOS
Electronic instrument, for short SYNTH
Entangled, in a way HOOKINGUP
Ethical standards MORALS
Event with negative consequences INCIDENT
Extended family member HALFUNCLE
Fights off REPELS
Food benefits letters SNAP
Ga. city ATL
Get some mileage out of USE
Hajj destination MECCA
Hanukkah top DREIDEL
Has some tibs, say EATS
Heavily criticizes BASHES
ID of the form ###-##-#### SSN
IRS URL ending DOTGOV
Issa who played a queen on 'Sesame Street' RAE
It involves an accomplice with access INSIDEJOB
Just slightly ATAD
Like arms after pushups, perhaps VEINY
Clues Answers
Make a reference ALLUDE
Most towering TALLEST
Nonetheless EVENSO
Not from a big studio INDIE
Not stay out HEADHOME
Not well ILL
Noun-forming suffix NESS
Opposites of unders OVERS
Partiality BIAS
Past, present or future TENSE
Pay your ___ DUES
Plains bovine BISON
Poet Paul Laurence ___ DUNBAR
Poetry's counterpart PROSE
Population-counting survey CENSUS
Reduce LESSEN
Respond ANSWER
Right at this very moment ASWESPEAK
Says 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T,' e.g SPELLS
Source of warmth HEATINGUNIT
Speak formally ORATE
Sporting venues ARENAS
Throws in the trash JUNKS
Ticklish Muppet ELMO
Uncommon occurrence RARITY
Underside of a shoe SOLE
Vice ___ VERSA
Visualizes SEES
Warms the bench SITS
Went really fast TORE
Wheel with teeth GEAR
Word before 'cut' or 'chief' CREW
Wreath of blooms LEI
Writing implement PEN
___ camera PINHOLE
___ Domingo, Dominican Republic SANTO
___ Wednesday ASH