USA Today - Dec 27 2021

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Clues Answers
'Back to you,' on a walkie-talkie OVER
'BAM!' relative POW
'Be that way!' FINE
'Do you really see me that way?' AMI
'Fences' actress Davis VIOLA
'French Kiss' actress Meg RYAN
'I ___ you're happy!' HOPE
'Lift ___ Voice and Sing' EVERY
'Mm-hmm, that's right!' YEP
'My life is so blah' feeling ENNUI
'Present!' HERE
'Scream' actress Courteney COX
'Twist, lick, dunk' cookies OREOS
'___ to the Head Nod' (Elizabeth Acevedo poem) ODE
Apt rhyme of 'fleck' SPECK
As ___ on TV SEEN
Bay Area hub (Abbr.) SFO
Black tea type PEKOE
Blues guitarist Baker ETTA
Broken Earth trilogy genre SCIFI
Catch some Z's SLEEP
Chancho en piedra and pico de gallo, e.g SALSAS
Charged particles IONS
Cigar residue ASH
Device for making calls PHONE
Door part HINGE
Draped garment SARI
Eggs on sushi rolls ROE
Exchange TRADE
Fuzzy-skinned fruit KIWI
Happen OCCUR
Herb in saltimbocca SAGE
Hint for a sleuth CLUE
Hit the mall SHOP
Kyoto currency YEN
Like an optimistic outlook ROSY
Like some families CHOSEN
Lots of MANY
Make a selection OPT
Clues Answers
Mimic an owl HOOT
Novelist and Nobelist Morrison TONI
Perimeter EDGE
Place a bet WAGER
Place for blobfish SEA
Place for piercings EAR
Places for watches WRISTS
Postpones for another day TAKESARAINCHECK
Prefix for 'normative' CIS
Really emphasize STRESS
Red fruit in shakshouka TOMATO
Relay race segment LEG
Roll call listings NAMES
Rule, like a queen REIGN
Schleps LUGS
See the world TRAVEL
Small recipe amt TSP
Soaks in hot water STEEPS
Sound of surprise GASP
Subjects of conversations TOPICS
Take care of the bill PAY
Tax return org IRS
There are three in 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' ACTS
Titular Disney pair who learn that 'ohana' means family LILOANDSTITCH
Told a fib LIED
Too cute by half TWEE
Unaccounted for, for short AWOL
Understand GET
Vehicles that are often yellow TAXIS
What everyone's saying WORDONTHESTREET
With much speed SWIFTLY
Withstand RESIST
Word after 'grand' or 'hand' GESTURE
Youth-assisting org UNICEF
[Not my mistake] SIC
___ gio (Vietnamese fried spring rolls) CHA
___ out a living EKE
___ Paulo, Brazil SAO
___-quoted OFT