USA Today - Dec 17 2019

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Clues Answers
'Ain't' alternative ARENT
'Are you trying to get ___ of me?' RID
'Battle of the ___' (2017 tennis biopic) SEXES
'Catch you on the flippity-flip' LATER
'Chill out!' RELAX
'Don't knock it ___ you've tried it' UNTIL
'Not today, ___!' SATAN
'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' singer Simone NINA
14-Across state, briefly FLA
49-Across venues ARENAS
91%, as a letter grade AMINUS
A pro wrestler might jump from the top one ROPE
A ___ in the right direction STEP
A'ja Wilson's sport, for short BBALL
Amount of ramen BOWLFUL
Angsty music genre EMO
Antidiscrimination law of 1972 TITLEIX
Apt name for a financial planner IRA
Best effort AGAME
Big failure FLOP
Birthday number AGE
Bitter beverage ALE
Camera capture SHOT
Cancel ABORT
Cardi B's borough THEBRONX
City in 'Moonlight' MIAMI
Compa AMIGO
Corridor HALL
Country with a double-headed eagle on its flag ALBANIA
Creative concept IDEA
Creature in fantasy stories OGRE
Cylinder of wood LOG
Dangerous gas RADON
Dr. King had one DREAM
Draws on USES
Drug-making field, briefly PHARMA
Element No. 54 XENON
Enjoy 'Nancy,' say READ
Fruit-and-nuts snack TRAILMIX
Clues Answers
Gift tag word FROM
Golfers want to be under it PAR
Greek I IOTA
Hairstyle that might hold a pick AFRO
Heap PILE
Incensed IRATE
Instrument with pedals PIANO
Knight's title SIR
Laugh syllable HEE
Laura of 'Big Little Lies' DERN
Like some pubs and coffees IRISH
Maker of Xperia phones SONY
Manila folder part TAB
Metaphor for a flammable situation TINDERBOX
Model Hadid BELLA
Mournful poem ELEGY
Nose-related NASAL
Number of inches in a yard THIRTYSIX
Obscene LEWD
Palindromic explosive TNT
Part of a horn section SAX
Part of UCLA LOS
Polite lead-in to an opinion IFIMAY
Prefix for 'tarsal' META
Prefix meaning 'new' NEO
Rental car brand ALAMO
Right, on a map EAST
River structure DAM
Space heater's output WARMAIR
Star on O Magazine covers OPRAH
Surprise ending TWIST
Suspect's story ALIBI
Timbuktu's nation MALI
Titanium or vibranium METAL
Took the outer layer off of PEELED
Totally committed ALLIN
Unsettling EERIE
Workday's start, often NINEAM
___ cut (short hairstyle) PIXIE