USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solutions – Mar 6 2018
| Clues | Answers |
| ___-mo replay | SLO |
| “American Idol” contestant’s goal | STARDOM |
| “As a result . . .” | HENCE |
| “Toodles!” | SEEYA |
| A or B, but not O | NOTE |
| Alan of “Catch-22” | ARKIN |
| Anne ___ (Henry VIII’s second) | BOLEYN |
| Apples, but not oranges | POMES |
| Asgard ruler | ODIN |
| Atlas, for one | TITAN |
| Autumn blossom, briefly | MUM |
| Barnyard sound | BLEAT |
| Becomes extinct | DIESOUT |
| Below-average grade | CMINUS |
| Beluga or shad yield | ROE |
| Beverage store bagful | ICE |
| Big galoot | APE |
| Bit of evidence | SCRAP |
| Book jacket parts | FLAPS |
| Carte blanche | FREEHAND |
| Closest buds, in texts | BFFS |
| Coin-in-a-fountain sound | PLOP |
| Dealer in stolen goods | FENCE |
| Decides democratically | VOTES ON |
| Deck out | ADORN |
| Delany of “Body of Proof” | DANA |
| Draw in the margins, say | DOODLE |
| Drove obliquely, as a nail | TOED |
| Eats or drinks | HAS |
| Fabric used as a strainer | CHEESE CLOTH |
| Fails to keep pace | TRAILS |
| Falco of “Nurse Jackie” | EDIE |
| Fanzine, e.g. | MAG |
| Fathered on the farm | SIRED |
| Fender dings | DENTS |
| Florist’s item | VASE |
| Found contemptible | DESPISED |
| Friend you may never have met | PENPAL |
| Frosty’s eyes | COAL |
| Give an invocation | PRAY |
| Groan evoker | BADPUN |
| Hieroglyphics beetle | SCARAB |
| Immigrant rights org. | ACLU |
| iPad downloads | APPS |
| Is gaga about | ADORES |
| Like a gut course | EASY |
| Like mortals? | MERE |
| Main contents | GAS |
| Managed care giant | AETNA |
| Many bills in tip jars | ONES |
| Michael Strahan dental feature | GAP |
| Mireille of “World War Z” | ENOS |
| Paper used for carbon copies | ONION SKIN |
| Park or Peyton | PLACE |
| Partner of dandy | FINE |
| Phone ___ (office annoyance) | TAG |
| Pinball flub | TILT |
| Place for a facial | SPA |
| Place for Hemingway’s Old Man | SEA |
| Pro ___ (proportionally) | RATA |
| Punk rock, to detractors | NOISE |
| Reached terra firma | ALIT |
| Reason to pass a peace pipe | TREATY |
| Recent USNA grad | ENS |
| Rosebush pest | APHID |
| Run, as a committee meeting | CHAIR |
| Seedy part of an apple | CORE |
| Self-defense in a can | PEPPER SPRAY |
| Stretchy, sleeveless shirt | TUBETOP |
| Suffix with Oktober | FEST |
| They’re apt to overemote | HAMACTORS |
| Tom Brady’s team, for short | PATS |
| Townshend of the Who | PETE |
| Troi aboard the Enterprise | DEANNA |
| Ungrammatical contraction | AINT |
| What Santa double-checks | LIST |
| Wimbledon award | CUP |
| Word before history or hygiene | ORAL |
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