USA Today - May 30, 2015 Crossword Puzzle Answer

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solution - May 30, 2015

Clues	Answers
"Ah, me!"	ALAS
"Beetle Bailey" character	SARGE
"Sorry about that!"	OOPS
"Telephone Line" rock grp	ELO
"The Canterbury Tales" character	REEVE
"Welcome to the islands!"	ALOHA
17th of 50	OHIO
Accelerate sharply	REVUP
Advertising award	CLIO
Aquarium implement	NET
Authority on diamonds?	UMP
Before, before a word	PRE
Birds that sound batty	LOONS
Bolt partner	NUT
Bookbinder's buy	GLUE
Christmas tradition	YULELOG
Clark's Butler	RHETT
Clerical abbreviation	REV
Comic actor Johnson	ARTE
Company that put a tiger in your tank	ESSO
Confession starter	MEA
Contents of some salaries	FIVEFIGURES
Contract loopholes	OUTS
Detail handler, maybe	AIDE
Drive-in feature	SCREEN
Dull-colored	DRAB
Fishtail	SLUE
Gently urge	COAX
Get to the other side	CROSS
Ghastly	GRUESOME
Give orders to	BOSS
Had stuff	OWNED
Hairy humanoid of legend	YETI
Hardly hidden	OVERT
Holy image	ICON
Improbable victory	UPSET
In pursuit	AFTER
Inspires reverence	AWES
It can be hot, thin or cold	AIR

Clues	Answers
Keep the engine running	IDLE
Last of a series	OMEGA
Leer lasciviously	OGLE
Lunar phenomenon	ECLIPSE
McShane or Holm	IAN
Medieval club	MACE
More than mislead	LIETO
Mythological river	STYX
Native New Zealander	MAORI
Otherwise	ELSE
Partner for means	WAYS
Poetic conjunction	ERE
Porcine mama	SOW
Prefix meaning "recent"	NEO
Putrefies	ROTS
Raison d'___	ETRE
Reeked	STANK
Relieves, as pain	EASES
Singer or Petty	LORI
Slain	DONEIN
Sneaky plots	SCHEMES
Some executive purchases	THREEPIECESUITS
Some ice cream units	PINTS
Some knee-slappers	ONELINERS
Some Marvel heroes	XMEN
Somewhere to sail?	SEVENSEAS
Stumblebum	OAF
Subj. for some immigrants	ESL
Superhero's secret	IDENTITY
Swarm	TEEM
Thicket	COPSE
Top Untouchable	NESS
Type of valve	INTAKE
Typical baseball game	NINEINNINGS
Unnamed ones	THEM
Uses a blender, perhaps	PUREES
What a hog wants	MORE
You do it if you breathe	EXIST
___-mouthed (insincere)	MEALY