USA Today - Dec 23 2021

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Clues Answers
'East' in Spanish ESTE
'I sure ___ so!' HOPE
'My heavens!' DEARME
'Right Track' singer SYD
'Waitress' composer Bareilles SARA
'What a time to be ___!' ALIVE
'Will you go to ___ with me?' (senior's request) PROM
'You said it!' AMEN
Abbreviation on a memo ATTN
Acrobat's safety item NET
Adorbs CUTE
Airport boarding areas GATES
Art ___ (retro style) DECO
Artery from the left ventricle AORTA
Astound STUN
Backdrop that might be moved during a scene change SET
Ball culture performance DRAG
Banana peel mishap SLIP
Beer garden options ALES
Begin to wake up STIR
Bicker ARGUE
Big party BASH
Blue-green color TEAL
Buy one get one ___ FREE
Capital of Arkansas LITTLEROCK
Car fuel GAS
Car with Union Jack taillights MINICOOPER
Charged particle ION
Chats on Slack IMS
Chicken's home COOP
Consume INGEST
Contest for a seat SENATERACE
Continual CONSTANT
Conviction BELIEF
Corners of softball diamonds BASES
Corporate designs LOGOS
Cozy gig hosted by NPR Music TINYDESKCONCERT
Dodge EVADE
Draped dresses SARIS
Clues Answers
Enjoy some banh xeo EAT
Flow back EBB
Frederick who founded the American Negro Theatre ONEAL
Game in which you can't say certain words TABOO
Garment worn by Caesar TOGA
Get 100% on ACE
Glide over snow with poles SKI
Grad students, often TAS
Hold on to KEEP
Holy ___ Empire ROMAN
In and out, e.g ANTONYMS
Like Powamu HOPI
Messy place STY
Monopoly card with a mortgage value on it DEED
New moon, e.g PHASE
Notion IDEA
Observes SEES
Opposite of 'all' NONE
Passes into law ENACTS
Performance with arias OPERA
Pool table surface FELT
Powerful tennis shot SMASH
Prefix for 'Latina' or 'futurism' AFRO
Protruding belly button OUTIE
Pulitzer winner Jennifer EGAN
Raison d'___ ETRE
Reusable bags TOTES
Rewards for shaking and rolling over TREATS
Rich dessert TORTE
Senior member of a community ELDER
Shrek, e.g OGRE
Spring Festival in Vietnam TET
Substance that turns litmus paper red ACID
Symbol on Aang's head in 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' ARROW
Tallies up ADDS
Trick-taking card game BRIDGE
Voice between tenor and soprano ALTO
Well-wisher's signoff ALLTHEBEST
Win every game SWEEP