USA Today - Sep 16 2021

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Clues Answers
'Let me say it one more time' IREPEAT
'Secondly . . .' ALSO
'Small Axe' actor John BOYEGA
'True peace is ___ merely the absence of tension' (MLK) NOT
'You betcha!' YES
'___ eat!' ('Dig in!') LETS
101 course INTRO
All of a ___ SUDDEN
Animal at an equine rescue MULE
Animal at an equine rescue PONY
Arroz junto ingredient RICE
Attention to ___ DETAIL
Backup option PLANB
Bass player's accessory AMP
Behind-the-head gesture in a photo BUNNYEARS
Bit of advice TIP
Bit of gossip RUMOR
Cartoon explorer with a map and a backpack DORA
Chocolaty or carroty treat CAKE
Comedic imitation IMPRESSION
Counterpart of written VERBAL
Crooked BENT
Dee who directed 'Pariah' REES
Desperate requests PLEAS
Difference between is and was TENSE
Elbow's place ARM
Esquites, but on a cob ELOTE
Feeling after leg day ACHE
Figures defined by y = mx b LINES
Final LAST
Flat ___ (hairstyling tools) IRONS
Follow an order OBEY
Former student, for short ALUM
Frostier ICIER
Fruit with a pit PEACH
Great Mosque of Djenne building material ADOBE
Heifer sound MOO
Highway entrance ONRAMP
In need of lotion ASHY
Clues Answers
Kansas City barbecue specialty BURNTENDS
Key near Caps Lock TAB
Lengthy attack SIEGE
Like 2 and 5 but not 25 PRIME
Like hair in a pixie cut SHORT
Mailbox opening SLOT
Make a T-shirt quilt, for example SEW
Mixture for making brownies BATTER
Mode of transportation RAIL
Neighbor of Sweden NORWAY
Neither gain nor lose BREAKEVEN
North American bird of prey BALDEAGLE
Numbered highway (Abbr.) RTE
Ocean predator ORCA
One and only LONE
Out of style PASSE
Period of a billion years EON
Pillow annoyance LUMP
Place to sleep BED
Prickly ___ cactus PEAR
Prohibit BAN
Public defender's expertise LAW
Put back on the market RESELL
Respond to the Adhan PRAY
Restaurant servers WAITERS
Scrabble piece TILE
Serengeti predators LIONS
Shinbone TIBIA
Soaks up some rays, perhaps TANS
Sports analyst Taylor MARIA
Starch in Indian cuisine ALOO
Sunburn application ALOE
Tempted LURED
The ___ Empire INCA
Tiny bit TAD
To-do ___ LIST
Wingspan and Clue, for two BOARDGAMES
Wolf relatives COYOTES
Woody's owner in 'Toy Story' ANDY