USA Today - June 9 2017 Friday Crossword Puzzle Answers

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jun 9 2017 Friday

Clue	Solution
Ring, as church bells	PEAL
Unlikely pocket item for Kojak	COMB
Ozzy Osbourne’s music, for short	METAL
Cathedral recess	APSE
It beats nothing	PAIR
Emcee’s opening lines	INTRO
Control house pets?	REINCATSANDDOGS
Reeves of "The Matrix"	KEANU
Bibliography abbr.	ETAL
He wrote of Roderick Usher	POE
Web-footed mammal	OTTER
Word before talk or rally	PEP
Mazola product	CORNOIL
Protein in hair straighteners	KERATIN
___ rigueur (literally)	ALA
Guy, slangily	FELLA
iPod model	NANO
Make an omnipotent emperor of?	GIVEFREEREIGNTO
Lead-ins to holidays	EVES
The sea, to Poseidon	REALM
"For sure!"	YES
Population per square mile, e.g.	DENSITY
Event preceding a move	TAGSALE
Number on a foam finger	ONE
Common coffee break hr.	TENAM
Bit of wordplay from Groucho	PUN
Vigor, in music	BRIO
Subdued, as colors	MUTED
Frightening storm?	THERAINOFTERROR
Word in compounds of gold	AURIC
Meaty part of a lobster	CLAW
Pal of Sawyer	FINN
Tried to awaken, perhaps	SHOOK
Concerning, on a memo	ASTO
Just OK	SOSO
Place for a picnic	PARK
Blunted blade	EPEE
Home to most of us	ASIA
Singer-songwriter on "Double Fantasy"	LENNON
Tax-season workhorse, for short	CPA
Feedbag morsel	OAT
Scrooge McDuck, e.g.	MISER
Baby sitter’s handful	BRAT
Bette of "For the Boys"	MIDLER
Put the kibosh on	END
Roof option on old Thunderbirds	TTOP
2012 movie involving a fake movie	ARGO
Take the booby prize	LOSE
Cause to shop short, maybe	CUTOFF
Mane locale	NAPE
One of the old Yankee Stadium’s three	TIER
Queen of whodunits	ELLERY
May ___, a girlfriend of 4-Down	PANG
Like many zoo animals	CAGED
Martini garnish	OLIVE
22-Across’s "ungainly fowl"	RAVEN
Discipline in Bruce Lee movies	KARATE
Tucker who sang "Delta Dawn"	TANYA
Goal of a recon mission	INTEL
Rope with a slipknot	NOOSE
"Do the Right Thing" director Spike	LEE
Gas brand still found in Canada	ESSO
Lively enthusiasm	ELAN
"Let’s do it!"	IMGAME
Where most cab fares ride	INBACK
Polo of "Meet the Fockers"	TERI
Blue toons	SMURFS
Hammer and sickle	TOOLS
School support orgs.	PTAS
"Nah"	UHUH
"Quo Vadis" emperor	NERO
Machu Picchu native	INCA
The Dixie Chicks, for one	TRIO
Vast stretches of time	EONS
Early foe of 007	DRNO
2016 Olympics site, for short	RIO
Budgetary excess	FAT
Lowest prime number	TWO