USA Today - May 9 2023

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Clues Answers
'Body Party' singer CIARA
'Gotta be faster than that!' TOOSLOW
'Heck yeah!' WOO
'It's Janet . . . Miss Jackson if you're ___' NASTY
'Let's put it to the ___' TEST
'Sea'-soning SALT
'That's not exactly breaking news' IMAWARE
'___ Miserables' LES
Absorb SOAKUP
Accompany ESCORT
Arousing art EROTICA
Ballet skirts TUTUS
Bighorn's bellow BAA
Birthplace of bounce music NEWORLEANS
Bonfire residue ASH
City hidden in the answer to 1-Down OSLO
Coalition that advocates against Native mascots in sports NOTINOURHONOR
Country that borders Thailand LAOS
Dangerous vapors FUMES
Delicious scent AROMA
Draped South Asian garment SARI
Dryly funny WRY
Edible pockets PITAS
Elitists SNOBS
Fannie ___ Hamer LOU
Get closer to GONEAR
Have a meal EAT
Heavy produce MELONS
Highway section LANE
Ideal starting hand in poker ACES
Immediately ASAP
Inform TELL
Joy or excitement EMOTION
Last possible moment NICKOFTIME
Like a wool sweater that feels like a steel wool sweater ITCHY
Like saying 'Bless you' POLITE
Clues Answers
Makes a scornful sound SCOFFS
Measures of gold purity KARATS
Meat preservation method CURING
Name that means 'lion' LEON
Not scheduled to work OFF
Out of style PASSE
Painter Kahlo FRIDA
Part of wpm or mph PER
Prefix meaning 'bad' MAL
Prefix similar to 'super-' ULTRA
Radio, TV, etc MEDIA
Reason for saying 'Bless you' SNEEZE
Reduces to a pulp MASHES
Result of addition SUM
Rival of Harvard YALE
Section of a history timeline ERA
Sent to a different team TRADED
Short comedy piece SKIT
Signer of a corporate apology CEO
Skin design, for short TAT
Small amounts TADS
Snakelike sea creatures EELS
Some rodents RATS
Songs TUNES
Sound-based detection system SONAR
Spanish for 'this' ESTO
Stays on the bench SITS
Stratosphere layer protected by the Montreal Protocol OZONE
The ___ Carta MAGNA
They're like scissors but bigger SHEARS
Title job for Thomas Wazhashk in a 2020 Louise Erdrich novel NIGHTWATCHMAN
Two of them merging would form a sextet TRIOS
Unholy act SIN
Wallet items IDS
___ butter lotion SHEA
___ flaw FATAL