USA Today - Apr 6 2016 Wednesday Crossword Puzzle Answer

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solution - Apr 6 2016 Wednesday

Clues	Answers
"Piano," literally	SOFT
"Roots," for one	EPIC
( or )	PAREN
__ avis	RARA
__ off (annoyed)	TEED
Animators' characters	TOONS
Be useful to	AVAIL
Big Apple restaurateur Toots	SHOR
Black-bordered article	OBIT
Cede the pigskin, in a way	PUNT
Cheesy snacks	NACHOS
City on the Seine	ROUEN
Construction beam	I BAR
Courage, informally	GUTS
Crude-producing grp.	OPEC
Cyber-junk	SPAM
Dead sea feature	SALT
Featherbrain	SIMP
Flat on one's face	PRONE
Frozen waffle brand	EGGO
Gallery event	ART SALE
Geometry finding	AREA
Guesstimate word	ABOUT
Happy brew	ALE
Has coffee, say	TAKES TEN
Held a follow-up session	REMET
Hunter who wrote "Blackboard Jungle"	EVAN
In style	HIP
In the thick of	AMID
Iowa biofuel	ETHANOL
Japanese honorific	SAN
Keep from escaping	HEMIN
Kingdom near Fiji	TONGA
Locket shape	OVAL
Long. Crosser	LAT
LP protectors	LINERS
Manicotti ingredient	RICOTTA
Move, in realtor-speak	RELO
Not just sit	ACT
Novel's thread	PLOT
Old Testament paradise	EDEN
One in the clink	CON
Parental admonition	DON’T
Playwright's prize	OBIE
Prepared a pumpkin	HOLLOWED
Queenly role for Liz	CLEO
Race terminus	TAPE
Reddish-brown horse	ROAN
Religious recluse	EREMITE
Ruffles potato chip feature	RIDGE
Rural alarm clock	ROOSTER
Said "aye"	VOTED
Sawbucks	TENS
Say "Ole!"	CHEER
Say it isn't so	DENY
Sch. with a Providence campus	URI
Some Ivy Leaguers	ELIS
Sphinx, in part	LION
Stand-up comic Margaret	CHO
Striped yellow billiard ball	NINE
Subway scurriers	RATS
Super bargain	STEAL
Team with a goat mascot	NAVY
Terms of a lease	TENANCY
The daring board gamer ..	RAN THE RISK
The naive board gamer ..	HADNT A CLUE
The peripatetic board gamer ..	WAS ON THE GO
The resurgent board gamer ..	CAME TO LIFE
Thomas who lampooned Tweed	NAST
Tootling instrument	FIFE
Torch's misdeed	ARSON
Tree home	NEST
Twangy, as voices go	NASAL
Unit of force	DYNE
Walled city of Spain	A VILA
Wearing brogans, say	SHOD
Well-constructed	SOLID
Wise king	SOLOMON