USA Today - July 28 2017 Friday Crossword Puzzle Answers

USA Today  Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jul 28 2017 Friday

Clue	Solution
Laureate’s creation	POEM
"Battling Bella" of women’s rights	ABZUG
Concerning, on a memo	ASTO
Auto pioneer Ransom Eli ___	OLDS
Sergio of spaghetti Westerns	LEONE
Agt. under Hoover	GMAN
Negotiations leeway	WIGGLEROOM
Dash or derby	RACE
Last-minute shopping time	EVE
Domain of the Muses	ARTS
Processes, as ore	SMELTS
"___, insist, persist, enlist" (Hillary slogan)	RESIST
Alloy containing carbon	STEEL
Arnaz who sang "Babalu"	DESI
Wi-Fi access area	HOTSPOT
Bike common in Bermuda	MOPED
Haunted house sounds	MOANS
Satirical Schumer	AMY
Solo often sung in Italian	ARIA
Extra, and a word that can precede the last parts of 17- and 59-Across and 11- and 34-Down	SPARE
Boring sort	DRIP
Shining expanse of song	SEA
___ cuisine (gourmet fare)	HAUTE
Affect emotionally	GETTO
Word before car or album	CONCEPT
Lord’s lackey	SERF
Skate park stunt	OLLIE
eBay customer’s option	PAYPAL
Defiant reply to an order	MAKEME
Per unit, informally	APOP
Steamed state	IRE
"So that’s it"	ISEE
"Bruce" to "Caitlyn," notably	NAMECHANGE
Sandy islands	CAYS
It’s sold in bolts	CLOTH
Tuxedo shirt fastener	STUD
Basilica recess	APSE
Slackens off	EASES
Clod choppers	HOES
Lack during a blackout	POWER
Place for a pimiento	OLIVE
Cube’s dozen	EDGES
Wonton soup additive, maybe	MSG
Some iPhone notifications	ALERTS
Blyleven in Cooperstown	BERT
Chaotic scenes	ZOOS
Card game with an Angry Birds version	UNO
Ring adornment, perhaps	GEMSTONE
Reaches a consensus	AGREES
Cameo role	SMALLPART
Social finesse	TACT
Bills picturing the Great Seal	ONES
Did high-tech surgery on	LASED
Team with a skyline in its logo	METS
Product of the imagination	IDEA
Isn’t piggish	SHARES
Ascribe, as blame	IMPUTE
Edit out	OMIT
Keyboard slipup	TYPO
Like "el," in Sp.	MASC
1912 answer to the Hydrox	OREO
They activate hammers when pressed	PIANOKEYS
Bit in a stable diet	OAT
Great wisdom	SAPIENCE
Stare down, say	DEFY
Captain’s post	HELM
Sales report visual	GRAPH
John of "Fawlty Towers"	CLEESE
Eocene and Miocene, for two	EPOCHS
Bean in a burrito	PINTO
Wage a war of words	ARGUE
British city where The Who recorded a live album	LEEDS
Mineral in thin layers	MICA
Letters of urgency	ASAP
Tori with eight Grammy nominations	AMOS
Pal of a Disney dragon	PETE
Cookbook phrase	ALA
Chimney residue	ASH