USA Today - Dec 18 2018 Crossword Answer

USA Today - Dec 18 2018 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Muesli morsel	OAT
No-win situation?	DRAW
Oklahoma oil city	TULSA
Olympic figure skater Cohen	SASHA
Place a value on	ASSESS
Place to jot down notes	SCRATCHPAPER
Places for pants patches	KNEES
Policy allowing unrestricted travel	OPENBORDERS
Prose:paragraph::poetry:___	STANZA
Ran like heck	TORE
Removes all traces of	ERASES
Rigel or Deneb	STAR
Rooks, but not ravens	MEN
Rustler-pursuing group	POSSE
Sassy talk	LIP
Separate mil. branch since 1947	USAF
Seventeen-syllable verse	HAIKU
Shows with exhibit booths	EXPOS
Strong cravings	YENS
Stubborn equine	ASS
Synth-heavy music genre	TECHNO
Tartan-sporting family	CLAN
Tarzan's adoptive mother, e.g	APE
Texter's 'If you ask me . . .'	IMO
The brainy Simpson	LISA
Thread holder	SPOOL
Ticket seller at a sellout	SCALPER
Timely benefit	BOON
TV episode with a cliffhanger ending, perhaps	SEASONFINALE
Typical 64-Across for Hitchcock	CAMEO
Urban renewal targets	SLUMS
Veggie in some chips	KALE
Viral video, e.g	MEME
Watched a friend's dog, say	PETSAT
Wear a long face	SULK
Winter Olympics leap	AXEL
Without peer	ALONE
Word before fryer or freezer	DEEP
Zamboni's milieu	ICE

Clues	Answers
'How ya doin'?'	SUP
'Makes sense to me'	ISEE
'So adorable!'	TOOCUTE
'Survey ___ . . .' (game show phrase)	SAYS
'The Black Cat' author	POE
Auditioner's goal	ROLE
Awards similar to Tonys	OBIES
Badlands formations	MESAS
Blink of an eye	SPLITSECOND
Bodycam wearer	COP
Capital on a fjord	OSLO
Chaotic scenes	ZOOS
Chinese dish served family-style	HOTPOT
Chinese leader who met with Nixon	MAO
Competes in a super-G	SKIS
Consequences of paintball strikes	WELTS
Create seams	SEW
Cut corners	SKIMP
Dropped into the collection plate	GAVE
Fabulist who wrote of an also-ran hare	AESOP
Features of the Swiss skyline	ALPS
First name in denim	LEVI
Fixed-term investments, for short	CDS
Flout the rules	CHEAT
Footnote abbr	OPCIT
Handful of peanuts, perhaps	SNACK
Harley, slangily	HOG
Hefty volume	TOME
How corned beef is often served	ONRYE
Huey, Dewey and Louie, to Donald	NEPHEWS
Jeans go-with, often	TEE
Joins a club, say	SIGNSUP
Laments like a banshee	KEENS
Late for school	TARDY
Long lock	TRESS
Lot purchase	AUTO
Lyft alternative	UBER
Margin in a close race	NOSE
Migratory birds	GEESE