USA Today - Jan 13 2018 Crossword Answer

USA Today - Jan 13 2018 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"Great" or "lesser" creatures	APES
"Spirit of '76" musician	FIFER
"The Balcony" playwright Jean	GENET
Airport serving Paris	ORLY
Anthony's former shock-jock partner	OPIE
Back, as a racehorse	BETON
Bits of dialogue	LINES
Brain or ear part	LOBE
Buddy who played Jed Clampett	EBSEN
Builder's purchase	PLOT
Capacity of some shot glasses	OUNCE
Car at a charging station	TESLA
Classic partner of potatoes	MEAT
Colossal nerve	GALL
Dean's email address suffix	EDU
Design on glass	ETCH
Dish containing no 49-Across	WELSHRABBIT
Does karaoke	SINGS
Dutch explorer Tasman	ABEL
Empty ___ syndrome (lonely feeling)	NEST
Find abominable	HATE
Flesh-and-blood	REAL
Garden hose holder	REEL
GI-entertaining group	USO
Goals to strive for	IDEALS
Google Maps suggestion	ROUTE
Hamelin's infestation	RATS
Handicrafts website	ETSY
Holm who played King Lear	IAN
Home of the NBA's Jazz	UTAH
Honor with a dinner, say	FETE
In one's birthday suit	NAKED
In Touch Weekly subject, for short	CELEB
It's 1, for a 90-degree angle	SINE
It's really a reed instrument	ENGLISHHORN
It's really a small area near the ulnar nerve	FUNNYBONE
Jesse of the 1936 Olympics	OWENS
Knock down a peg	ABASE
Knock off	CEASE

Clues	Answers
Label launched by the Beatles	APPLE
Lady Byng Trophy org	NHL
Leads, as a band	FRONTS
Long geologic stretches	EONS
Mass assent	AMEN
Mild Dutch cheese	GOUDA
Monocle part	LENS
Note in a poker pot, maybe	IOU
Oblong tomato	ROMA
Offer at Sotheby's	BID
One of 40 in a classic punishment	LASH
One-legged whaler of fiction	AHAB
Perjurer's admission	ILIED
Playbill listing	CAST
Played for time	STALLED
Political convention setting	ARENA
Publishing or country music partner of McGraw	HILL
Put up with	ABIDE
Rock formed by cooling lava	BASALT
Rush-job letters	ASAP
Shakespeare's Kate, notably	SHREW
Shrimp ___ Creole	ALA
Site of Perry's naval victory	ERIE
Soda brand named for a mountain	SHASTA
Sound of boredom	HOHUM
Sportage and Sorento automaker	KIA
Strong cotton thread	LISLE
Surgeon's blockage reliever	STENT
T-men and G-men	FEDS
Talk like a tosspot	SLUR
Target, for Target	LOGO
Thermos pattern, perhaps	PLAID
Topper that originated in Ecuador	PANAMAHAT
Trade verbal jabs	SPAR
Tree of Life garden	EDEN
Vehicle at auction, perhaps	REPO
Wearers of tin stars	LAWMEN
Where guests pay for drinks	CASHBAR
With great urgency	DIRELY