USA Today - Aug 12 2017

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Clues Answers
"Publish or ___" (academic caveat) PERISH
"The X-Files" characters, for short ETS
2016 Olympics city, for short RIO
Adirondack chair part SLAT
Animation collectible CEL
Anthem contraction OER
Barbara or Jenna, to Jeb Bush NIECE
Bearded Serengeti beast GNU
Bend at a barre PLIE
Blake who composed "Charleston Rag" EUBIE
Blew one's own horn BOASTED
Cape Cod catch SCROD
Chained item in a bank, perhaps PEN
Closet eaters' candy supplies, e.g STASHES
Consecrate with oil ANOINT
Consign to the junk heap SCRAP
Cut off, as ties SEVER
Destroys deliberately TRASHES
Did a track official's job TIMED
DINK part KIDS
Dirty old men's looks LEERS
Domino's deliveries PIES
Dressing room array LOCKERS
Drops off LESSENS
Earthy pigment OCHER
Effect of a love potion SPELL
Eight-line part of a sonnet OCTET
Fax forerunner TELEX
Fearsome dino TREX
Feel remorse over RUE
Glaswegian, e.g SCOT
Go awry ERR
Grannies NANAS
Hang like a hummingbird HOVER
Held together COHERED
High priest of Shiloh ELI
Home to clergymen PARISHHOUSE
Hoops great Shaq ONEAL
Japanese PM who met with Trump ABE
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Knight's weapon LANCE
Letter inclusion (Abbr.) ENC
Letter-shaped plumbing fitting TEE
Like alfresco dining OPENAIR
Maple tree yield SAP
Mathletes, stereotypically NERDS
Mike Tyson or Tyson Fury BOXER
Mount St. Helens fallout ASHES
Necklace of plumerias LEI
Nevil who wrote "On the Beach" SHUTE
On the disabled list HURT
Pantheon denizens GODS
Patches, as a grass court SODS
Play about Capote TRU
Player in MLB's first domed stadium ASTRO
Preserves, as tomatoes CANS
Propelled, as a raft POLED
Put the whammy on HEXED
Refrain consisting of vowels EIEIO
Respectful denial NOSIR
Sedan alternative COUPE
Signed away CEDED
Silent assent NOD
Site of the first Olympics GREECE
Slangy turndown NAH
Some broiler chickens CORNISHHENS
Sot's interjection HIC
Source of tallow SUET
Sparsely vegetated expanses BARRENS
Sport ___ (versatile vehicle) UTE
Sports org. with a Tour PGA
State capital on the Oregon Trail BOISE
Test pilot's headgear CRASHHELMET
Was googly-eyed STARED
Went lickety-split TORE
What verbs and nouns should do AGREE
Woodwind with a misleading name ENGLISHHORN
WWII-era intelligence org OSS
___ Tafari (Haile Selassie) RAS