USA Today - Jan 4 2016

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Clues Answers
" ___ the ramparts . . ." OER
"Beat it!" SCRAM
"Dear" one SIR
"Direct" ending IVE
"Quoth the ___, 'Nevermore'" RAVEN
"Summer of Sam" director LEE
180 deg. from WSW ENE
1980s invasion site GRENADA
A chorus line? TRALA
A million bucks? DEER
Absorbed, as a loss ATE
Added to the payroll HIRED
Asian cuisine choice THAI
Bad day for Caesar IDES
Bee ___ ("Stayin' Alive" singers) GEES
Bewhiskered BEARDED
Biological identifier DNA
Blaze fighter's aid FIREHYDRANT
Botanical seed-to-be OVULE
Bowling feats STRIKES
Braun or Peron EVA
Buccaneers' home TAMPA
Cable company employee WIRER
Capture the attention of GRAB
Child approaching his 6-Down TWEENIE
Consume with gusto EATUP
Crimson Tide's home state (Abbr.) ALA
Decade number TEN
Didst reside DWELT
Dine at home EATIN
Doctrines CREDOS
Dollar fraction CENT
Estuary feature INLET
Fish, to herons PREY
Fix once and for all? GELD
Forest WOODS
Freon, for one REFRIGERANT
Giggler's response TEHEE
Go into hysterics RANTANDRAVE
Clues Answers
Greeks' "unlucky" letter THETA
Hamlet's father, e.g GHOST
Immeasurable space ABYSS
Inflict a blemish on MAR
It's dynamite stuff TNT
Kind of cannonball HUMAN
Like a weasel's eyes BEADY
Like nervous knuckles? WHITE
Lunch location DELI
Make another sheepshank, e.g RETIE
Many a nametag STICKON
North Pole toymaker ELF
Not even half-baked RAW
Nothing at all NIL
Ones at hand THESE
Permeates SEEPS
Picasso output ART
Presley famously swiveled his PELVIS
Pricing word PER
Prizes highly ESTEEMS
Restroom sign MEN
Ringing REVERBERANT
Roof overhangs EAVES
Santa ___ winds ANA
Sewer creature RAT
So it can be heard ALOUD
Sound like a sheep BLEAT
Stock-exchange denizens TRADERS
Stuck in a ___ RUT
Summon SENDFOR
This crossword has one THEME
Type of 50-Across HART
Unforgettable time for historians ERA
Unmannerly RUDE
Upper garment SHIRT
Yard sales? ALES
Young people TEENS
Zenith's opposite NADIR
___ de plume NOM