USA Today - Oct 2 2016

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Clues Answers
"The Lion King" lioness NALA
"Walk-___ welcome" INS
"___, except after c" IBEFOREE
18-wheeler SEMI
30 minutes of football HALF
Accused's defense ALIBI
Artful to the max SLIEST
As easy as ___ ABC
Attempts to win a tea-making contest? STEEPSTOCONQUER
Auth. unknown ANON
Ballet leap JETE
Banjo ridge FRET
Baseball great-turned-politico Bunning JIM
Basilica recess APSE
Ben Gurion Airport carrier ELAL
Business suit go-with DRESSSHIRT
Catch 40 winks NAP
Catch red-handed NAB
Chick's sound PEEP
Dentist's order after "open" WIDER
Did a salon job RINSED
Did a smith's job SHOED
Did the job SERVED
Exacta alternative QUINELLA
Exaggerate onstage EMOTE
Excessive detail, to texters TMI
Exotic dancer's wear PASTIES
Guitarist Segovia ANDRES
Hawke of "Sinister" ETHAN
Hippie's two-finger sign PEACE
Hogs' homes STIES
Horse waiting? STEEDINLINE
Ill-considered RASH
Jessica of "Total Recall" BIEL
Laborious effort PAINS
LAX or JFK guess ETA
Leslie Caron title role LILI
Marine ___ (presidential helicopter) ONE
Metalworker's avian sculpture? STEELPIGEON
Clues Answers
Muhammad or Laila ALI
NYC hrs EST
Orchestra locales PITS
Parcel out ALLOT
Part of a Lionel set CAR
Peace Prize winner with Arafat RABIN
Pitchblende, to uranium ORE
Place for a BLT DINER
Pothook shape ESS
Precursors to migraines AURAE
Reduce to mush PUREE
Reply to "Shall we?" LETS
Ritz cracker lookalike HIHO
River of Leeds AIRE
Roo's mother KANGA
Ruler toppled in 1979 SHAH
Saloon selections BEERS
Samba and mambo DANCES
Search for, as one's ancestry TRACE
Seemingly forever EON
Shepherd's pie spheroids PEAS
Shirts' opponents, in a pickup game SKINS
Shortening brand since 1911 CRISCO
Sign for many April births ARIES
Sock away SAVE
Springsteen, to fans THEBOSS
Still undecided NOTTOOSURE
Supply a spread for CATER
Swelled head EGO
Tanning lotion letters SPF
Titan bearing the world ATLAS
Trail mix morsels NUTS
Triad, e.g CHORD
Usual tic-tac-toe outcome TIE
Utah ski resort ALTA
Witchy women HAGS
Withdraw, as from a habit WEAN
Zero, in soccer NIL
___ for (chooses) OPTS