USA Today - Jan 27 2017

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Clues Answers
"Comfort and joy" season YULE
"My lips ___ sealed" ARE
"Sesame Street" playmate of Zoe ELMO
"Survivor" group TRIBE
"Tank Engine" of kid-lit THOMAS
"The Shining" door buster AXE
"TMZ" twosomes ITEMS
A card-key provides it ENTRY
A whole bunch LOTS
Address a convention ORATE
Aid in escape, perhaps ABET
All thumbs INEPT
Barbershop offerings SHAVES
Be paroled, say GOFREE
Blow a fuse, so to speak ERUPT
Bulletproof wear VEST
C sharp equivalent DFLAT
Carries laboriously LUGS
Celebrity chef Paula DEEN
Cheesy Poofs eater on "South Park" ERIC
Cochise or Geronimo APACHE
Concoct in a cauldron BREW
Dies down ABATES
Dithers, to Bumstead BOSS
Dominant, among animals ALPHA
Elsinore natives DANES
Elvis's swivelers HIPS
Errand list heading TODO
Explorer on Nickelodeon DORA
Faction within a faith SECT
Fedora in a windstorm? RUNAWAYHAT
Fertility clinic cell OVUM
Flow slowly SEEP
Food for much fauna FLORA
Gained "life experience" AGED
Gentle caress of an alligator pear? AVOCADOPAT
Groucho Marx prop CIGAR
Half a colon DOT
Having the know-how ABLE
Clues Answers
Hirohito and Akihito EMPERORS
Ill-fated force of 1588 ARMADA
It's for openers ANTE
Levine of Maroon 5 ADAM
Limeade ingredient JUICE
Made-to-order lard? CUSTOMFAT
Make naan, say BAKE
Many an iPhone download GAME
Mild Dutch cheese EDAM
Moist towelette WIPE
Monopoly pair DICE
Morsels in martinis OLIVES
Night flyer that does stand-up? COMEDYBAT
Odometer button RESET
Off one's rocker LOCO
OK to do LICIT
One-week breaks for NFL teams BYES
Open a tad AJAR
Palate-pleasing TASTY
Pilots' guesses, briefly ETAS
Places for perms SALONS
Point on a bus map STOP
Put an edge on HONED
Rap sheet abbr AKA
Rationed, with "out" DOLED
Rival of Trump in 2016 RUBIO
Roomy carryalls TOTEBAGS
Shrimper's net TRAWL
Solo often sung in Italian ARIA
Some Conestoga wagon pullers OXEN
Sot's utterance HIC
Spreadsheet filler DATA
Talk like Popeye RASP
Tennis great Lendl IVAN
Tilter's wear ARMOR
Took measured steps PACED
Vexed incessantly ATEAT
Waiter in an airport queue CAB
___-Rooter ROTO