USA Today - Oct 9 2021

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Clues Answers
'It won't be long now' SOON
'Story of my ___!' LIFE
'The Glass City' of Ohio TOLEDO
A's in a deck of cards ACES
Afro combs PICKS
Artist who creates abstract, angular figures CUBIST
Black or red insect ANT
Brittney Griner's org WNBA
Building part often laid with public ceremony FOUNDATIONSTONE
Burden of responsibility ONUS
Character weakness FLAW
Coin smaller than a penny DIME
Contains HAS
Cover charge, e.g FEE
Crete currency EURO
Deck of cards with The Fool TAROT
Diagonally cut pasta PENNE
Distinctive time periods ERAS
Down in the dumps SAD
Drag queen Bebe Zahara ___ BENET
Enjoyable FUN
Events for doulas BIRTHS
Finale END
Finally registered SANKIN
Fish with a rainbow variety TROUT
Fluffy neckwear BOA
French for 18-Across OUI
Fruits in a balafon GOURDS
Full of swear words, maybe UNCENSORED
Get older AGE
Getting mileage out of USING
Gives the go-ahead to OKS
Globes ORBS
Hills of sand DUNES
Invader Zim and Marvin the Martian, e.g. (Abbr.) ETS
Jazz horn SAX
Job security for a lecturer TENURE
Letters before iotas THETAS
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Lowest nonzero tie score ONEONE
Mass departure EXODUS
Metroid protagonist Aran SAMUS
Mexican state known for its seven moles OAXACA
Navajo ___ NATION
Omniscient ALLKNOWING
One of three in an ellipsis DOT
Online gamer's frustration LAG
Pang TWINGE
Peace's counterpart WAR
Pick up on SENSE
Place of higher ed, in Britain UNI
Prefix for 'normative' CIS
Prefix that means 'constant' ISO
Prefix with 'faceted' or 'talented' MULTI
President with a monument next to MLK Jr.'s FDR
Printer refills TONERCARTRIDGES
Regrets RUES
Rose by another name BLUSHWINE
Rowing implement OAR
Spanish 101 verb SER
Spar with an imaginary opponent SHADOWBOX
St. Louis' country USA
Subject of Timnit Gebru's research BIAS
Suffix for 'egg' around Christmastime NOG
Swampy place MARSH
Sweetheart BABE
Tennis great Arthur ASHE
The 'R' of P.R RICO
Ticket holder who didn't make it NOSHOW
Tied up BUSY
Try out TEST
Uno, ___, tres . . DOS
Unwind for a bit REST
Verbal consent word YES
Water polo need NET
Whole ENTIRE
Word before 'tube' or 'circle' INNER