USA Today - Mar 8 2017

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Clues Answers
"As clear as mud," e.g SIMILE
"The buck stops here" monogram HST
"With parsley," on some menus GARNI
(not my mistake) SIC
A sister of Zsa Zsa EVA
Advice columnist Van Buren ABIGAIL
Airline with only kosher meals ELAL
Algerian setting for "The Plague" ORAN
Apply, as some patches IRONON
Barista's vessel URN
Best Comeback Athlete award org ESPY
Bill-blocking vote NAY
Bradshaw of grid fame TERRY
Brief tussle SETTO
Brit's "jolly," stateside VERY
Broomstick rider HAG
Burrito alternative TACO
Carl of "Cosmos" SAGAN
Celestial bear URSA
Chow down EAT
Closing credits listing CAST
Computer user's shortcut MACRO
Dates regularly SEES
Deuce follower, often ADIN
Drag out of bed ROUST
Dumb mistake BONER
East African honorific BWANA
Email folder heading SENT
Enya's genre NEWAGE
Excessive, as a price STEEP
Fall hue OCHER
Farm stand measure PECK
Fierce way to fight TOOTHANDNAIL
Gain entry GETIN
Guitar neck attachment CAPO
Harness race gait TROT
In a positive direction ONWARDS
Lacking detail SKETCHY
Late hours, in ads NITE
Clues Answers
Lawn figurine GNOME
Letters on a DVR remote REC
London Magazine essayist ELIA
Maker of candy "Pieces" REESES
Many book jacket blurbs BIOS
Muckraking journalist Ida TARBELL
Needed a massage, say ACHED
One of four on a Rolls TYRE
One way to read or think ALOUD
Packed closely together CHEEKBYJOWL
Peeples of "Fame" NIA
Penultimate fairy tale word EVER
Personal trainer's workplace GYM
Porter who wrote "Night and Day" COLE
Rabid dog in a King novel CUJO
Respected tribesman ELDER
RN's touch, for short TLC
RSVP part SIL
Sandwich in a pita GYRO
Sari or sarong DRESS
Secluded valley GLEN
Showing despair HEADINHANDS
Sitcom alien's planet ORK
Soft shoes, for short MOCS
Sound of admonition TSK
Stadium sound CHEER
Suffix meaning "pain" ALGIA
The Bard's theatre GLOBE
Tijuana's locale, informally BAJA
Timber wolf LOBO
Tool for Bunyan AXE
Track down LOCATE
UFO part OBJECT
Way underweight SKINANDBONES
Whirlpool subsidiary AMANA
Whom Uncle Sam wanted YOU
WWII alliance AXIS
Zoo employee, for short VET
___ Fawlty (John Cleese character) BASIL