USA Today - Aug 11, 2015 Tuesday Crossword Puzzle Answer

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solution - Aug 11, 2015 Tuesday

Clue	Answer
"__ bad!"	TOO
"Cool" amount	MIL
"Gone With the Wind" plantation	TARA
"The Wizard of Menlo Park"	EDISON
___ Park, Colo.	ESTES
___ Today	USA
A Beatle wife	ONO
A designer label	POLO
A first name among first ladies	IDA
Absentminded one's axcuse	OOPS I FORGOT
Acquired	GOT
Airtight storage buildings	SILOS
Altar settings	APSES
And others, for short	ETAL
Bit of dandruff	FLECK
Block letter's lack	SERIF
Boat accoutrement	OAR
Brand of hair remover	NAIR
Breed	ILK
Brenda of the comics	STARR
Brook	RILL
Busy fellow in a gold rush	ASSAYER
Campus building	HALL
Cave ricochet	ECHO
Climbed awkwardly	SHINNIED
Cold, dry European wind	MISTRAL
Common side order	FRIES
Defensive spray	MACE
Driveway endings, often	GARAGES
Drone, e.g.	BEE
Early Christian pulpit	AMBO
Entertaining copycats	MIMES
Former P.M. Tony	BLAIR
Foxy trait?	SLYNESS
German "Mrs."	FRAU
Gravity-powered toys	SLEDS
Green or lima	BEAN
H.S. requirement	ENG
Hardly scantly	AMPLE
Homework avoider's excuse	MY DOG ATE IT
Ignorant one's excuse	NOONE TOLD ME
In a regal manner	AUGUSTLY
Indian officer's club	LATHI
It may be in a bar	SOAP
It smells good	NOSE
Kind of ball or felow	ODD
L.A. necessity	CAR
Late one' excuse	I OVER SLEPT
Like an octopus's defense	INKY
Middle name of 4-Down	ALVA
Miss Hawkins of Dogpatch	SADIE
Moray, e.g.	EEL
Morsel for American Pharoah	OAT
Move it along quickly	HIE
Newbie, of sorts	PLEBE
Not domesticated	FERAL
Not even-tempered	MOODY
Official pronouncements	DICTA
One way to be responsible	SOLELY
Opera solo	ARIA
Ozone problem	HOLE
Parts of history books	ERAS
Pastoral poem	IDYLL
Pelvic bones	SACRA
Round components?	BEERS
Runs easily	LOPES
Say "y'all," e.g.	ELIDE
Scalawag	ROGUE
Shorthand innovator	GREGS
Some Fertile Crescent residents	SYRIANS
Specialized vocabulary	ARGOT
Spirited steed	ARAB
Spring flood causes	RUN OFFS
The "E" of BPOE	ELKS
Use a dagger	STAB
Wanda of comedy	SYKES
Yiddish "trash" (var.)	DREK
Zodiac lion	LEO