USA Today Crossword Puzzle Answer - Dec 30, 2014

 USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solution- Dec 30, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Buona ___" (Italian greeting)	SERA
"The Catcher in the ___"	RYE
"We try harder" company	AVIS
A lot of lot	ACRE
Adjective for 51-Across	EELY
Algebra or trig	MATH
Allotting	DOLING
Alphabet intro	ABC
Any of Yalta's Big Three	STATESMAN
Arm bone	ULNA
Awestruck	RAPT
B in biology, e.g	GRADE
Beanery sign	EATS
Become cured	HEAL
Blue book filler	TESTEE
Business salutation	SIRS
Came to rest	ALIT
Canned meat brand	SPAM
Cannon sound	BOOM
Caterpillar bristles	SETAE
Charged particle	ION
Comfort	SOLACE
Comparatively arid	DRIER
Congers	EELS
Covered with water	AWASH
Docking spot	PIER
Ducky color	TEAL
Dumb bunny	NINNY
European language	ERSE
Fairy godmother's prop	WAND
Far from flustered	CALM
Fencing needs	EPEES
Fish's last bite	WORM
Food thickener	AGAR
Full of chutzpah	BRASH
General's command	ARMY
Great reviews	RAVES
Has a hunch	SENSES

Clue	Answer
Hawaiian tuber	TARO
Kind of boom	SONIC
Locale	SITE
Long-billed sandpiper	SNIPE
Mideast's Gulf of ___	ADEN
Military pilot's concern	BOGEY
Native New Zealander	MAORI
New York's ___ Fisher Hall	AVERY
North Pole resident	MRSSANTACLAUS
Notability	FAME
One dir. a compass may point	ENE
One of a Valentine's Day dozen	ROSE
Open, as a bottle	UNCAP
Pan, e.g	GOD
Park in Colorado	ESTES
Pass, as time	ELAPSE
Perfume	CENSE
Pitt-Jolie film	MRANDMRSSMITH
Platters	DISCS
Point of greatest despair	NADIR
Range	GAMUT
Rapid discharge of firearms	FUSILLADE
Resembling a ram	OVINE
Ring bearer, often	EAR
Santa ___, Calif	ROSA
Scarecrow stuffing	STRAW
Shipping box	CRATE
Shout of joy	YES
State of mind	MOOD
Street fleet	CABS
Tablet brand	ACER
Thumb-twiddler	IDLER
Transmit	SEND
Trimmed of fat	LEAN
Victoria's Secret item	BRA
Villains in "The Lion King"	HYENAS
White House address?	MISTERPRESIDENT
___ Bator, Mongolia	ULAN