USA Today - Apr 8 2016 Friday Crossword Puzzle Answer

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solution - Apr 8 2016 Friday

Clues	Answers
"I'm impressed!"	OOH
"Nashville" director Robert	ALTMAN
"Pink Panther" theme composer Henry	MANCINI
"The Ghost and Mrs. __"	MUIR
2003 Ben Affleck flop	GIGLI
Anderson Cooper's channel	CNN
Apt second job for baseball player Sabathia?	CAREER COUNSELOR
Apt second job for novelist Lawrence?	DENTAL HYGIENIST
Apt second job for showman Barnum?	PIANO TEACHER
Apt second job for writer Lewis?	CHIMNEY SWEEP
Archipelago composition	ISLES
Architect Maya	LIN
Be a 9-Down	TATTLE
Berry-yielding palm	ACAI
Big briny body	OCEAN
Big name in fables	AESOP
Big-eyed hooters	OWLS
Caddy quaff	TEA
Chaucer offering	TALE
Christmas poem opener	TWAS
Clean up, as copy	EDIT
Come cookware	POTS
Commuting cost	FARE
Cost to play	ANTE
Crooked	BENT
Dairy Queen offering	SHAKE
Drum kit part	SNARE
Easily split minerals	MICAS
Elm or elder	TREE
Eminent conductor	MAESTRO
Ending with pay	OLA
Fail to include	OMIT
Folk singer Phil	OCHS
Foul caller	REF
Furtive	SLY
Give voice to	UTTER
Glossy finishes	ENAMELS
Hang loosely	LOLL
Hay holders	LOFTS
Historic Texas siege site	ALAMO
Home to Nome	ALASKA
Illinois neighbor	IOWA
In the know about	WISE TO
Indulges fully	SATES
Informant	SNITCH
Intellectual property protection statutes	PATENT LAW
Jiffy	SEC
Karaoke needs, briefly	MICS
Lightened (up)	EASED
Like a dark room	UNLIT
Lover boy	BEAU
Mammoth's heyday	ICE AGE
Marley of "A Christmas Carol"	JACOB
Mounts, as jewel	SETS
Nightspot in a Manilow hit, for short	COPA
Nintendo hero	MARIO
Oct. 31 cries	BOOS
Pack of coins	ROLL
Pas' partners	MAS
Pizzeria fixture	OVEN
Plane path	AISLE
Present label	TAG
President pro __	TEM
Racetrack shape	OVAL
Riddle	ENIGMA
Swimming pool figure	DEPTH
That lady	HER
Tina of "30 Rock"	FEY
Traffic headache	JAM
Tropical headgear	PANAMA HAT
Tubular pasta	PENNE
Unrefined finds	ORES
Wax-winged flier of myth	ICARUS
Whole lot	HEAP
Writer Wharton	EDITH