USA Today - Oct 02, 2015 Friday Crossword Puzzle Answer

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solution - Oct 02, 2015 Friday

Clue	Answer
"Beetle Bailey" character	SARGE
"He's __ nowhere man" (Beatles)	A REAL
"How soothing!"	AAH
"It" game	TAG
"Minimum" amount	WAGE
__ de Janeiro	RIO
American cuckoos	ANIS
Assay subject	ORE
Be indebted to	OWE
Becomes narrower	TAPERS
Carried piggyback	TOTED
Caterwauled	YOWLED
Cause for celebration	VICTORY
Closes, as an envelope	SEALS
Coffee, slangily	JAVA
Coffeehouse container	URN
Coiffed like a lion	MANED
Command to a big dog	DOWN BOY
Common aquarium fishes	TETRAS
Core of PC	CPU
Dermatological diagnosis sometimes	CYST
Diminutive	WEE
Disnet Dalmatian	PONGO
Dispatch a fly	SWAT
Dresden's river	ELBE
Emotional pain	TWINGE
Eyed impolitely	LEERED
Family guy	DAD
First installment	DOWNPAYMENT
Geisha's sash	OBI
Gladiatorial venues	ARENAS
Golden Delicious, for one	APPLE
Good times and bad	UPS AND DOWNS
Himalayan mystery creature	YETI
Hornswoggled	MULCTED
Hunter's weapon	RIFLE
Insomniac's quest	SHUT EYE
Item often fetched	STICK
Item on a chairlift	SKI
Jailbird	CON
Lady of Seville	DONA
Long and impressive, as a film	EPIC
Longtime Chinese chairman	MAO
Magazine article measurement	LINAGE
Military flotilla	ARMADA
More polished	SUAVER
NBA great Jason	KIDD
Not secret	OVERT
Old name for Iran	PERSIA
One of the musical Jacksons	JANET
One-man band performances	SOLI
Outcropping	CRAG
Pig's schnoz	SNOUT
Promising	UP AND COMING
Puts ro rest, as fear	ALLAYS
Reflect briliantly	GLISTEN
Regain consciousness	COMETO
Ring, like bells	PEAL
Roaming folks	NOMADS
Senseless	INANE
Small 33-Across	WEN
Snake-haired woman of myth	MEDUSA
Strong, unpleasant smell	REEK
Tea biscuit	SCONE
Tightly packed	DENSE
Tough battle	UPHILL FIGHT
Turkish titles (var.)	AGHA
Vast treeless plain in Arctic regions	TUNDRA
Venomous snake	COBRA
Vietnam's capital	HANOI
Walton who founded Wal-Mart	SAM
Weightlifter's unit	PEP
What can you spend	NET
Where the ark came to rest	ARAFAT
Worthless cloth	RAG
Wrangler's boot item	SPUR