USA Today - Jan 27 2018

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Clues Answers
"Battle Cry" author URIS
"Essays of ___" (Lamb work) ELIA
"I agree completely" SOTRUE
"___ declare!" IDO
APR part RATE
Arboretum specimen TREE
Arid, like much of Africa SAHARAN
Aussie bounders ROOS
Basketball's Thurmond or Archibald NATE
Be 34-Down ACHE
Blow the socks off AMAZE
Caught on, with "up" WISED
Cause an unearned run, perhaps ERR
Cheerful ditty LILT
Circus safeguard NET
Classic Volkswagen BEETLE
Cookie with a Cookies & Creme variety OREO
Created a crisis for oneself GOTINTOHOTWATER
Cub Scout groups DENS
Deliver a keynote ORATE
Down-on-one's-luck sort LOSER
Dull as dishwater BLAH
Fan club favorite IDOL
Feel out of sorts AIL
First-down yardage measurer CHAIN
From square one ANEW
Gin-and-tonic garnish LIME
Google search results HITS
Great Plains tribe OSAGE
Gun named for its inventor UZI
Hardware and software pros TECHS
Hold back, as emotions INHIBIT
Honeycomb division CELL
Hornets' home NEST
In need of a rubdown SORE
Invited disaster SKATEDONTHINICE
Jared of "Suicide Squad" LETO
Jump bail, say FLEE
King whose tomb was discovered in 1922, for short TUT
Clues Answers
Like children's cereals SWEET
Likely to catch on quickly APT
Little piggy's cry, when tripled WEE
Long-tongued comics canine ODIE
Lower, as a hem ALTER
Miss America accessory SASH
Muscular Japanese dogs AKITAS
Nest egg option ROTHIRA
Nimble-fingered DEFT
No longer ill CURED
Nutty as a fruitcake WACKO
O. Henry's "The Gift of the ___" MAGI
One served by 66-Across USER
Partner of red beans RICE
Perform in a skit ACT
Place for a piercing LOBE
Place for an electronic bracelet ANKLE
President before Jack IKE
Put through a sieve SIFT
Qatar or Kuwait EMIRATE
Railway structure TRESTLE
Rain cats and dogs TEEM
Ran like the dickens TORE
Realtors' listings HOMES
Release one's pent-up emotions LETOFFSOMESTEAM
Response to "Are you hurt?" IMOK
Retort to "Ain't!" ISTOO
Rightmost bowling pin TEN
Running on ___ (very low on gas) FUMES
Send to the salt mines EXILE
Show starring Mr. T, with "the" ATEAM
Six-shooter name COLT
Swellheads' problems EGOS
Telegram punctuation STOP
Tool for Paul Bunyan AXE
Unit of time or latitude MINUTE
Von Bismarck of Prussia OTTO
Working away ATIT
___ of matter (something indirectly referenced in 17-, 38- and 62-Across) STATE