USA Today - October 27 2017 Friday Crossword Puzzle Answers

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Oct 27 2017 Friday 

Clue	Solution
Puzzle with pictures	REBUS
Pizza crust choice	THIN
Leave rolling in the aisles	SLAY
Rid of data	ERASE
Uneducated sort	RUBE
Roofer’s piece	TILE
Yellow-footed wader	EGRET
Arrived at a heliport, say	ALIT
One of three in a water molecule	ATOM
Compact car since 1998	FORDFOCUS
One-tenth donation	TITHE
Common Core component	TEST
Ellison who writes speculative fiction	HARLAN
Most belly buttons	INNIES
Like steppe vegetation	SPARSE
Pay stub listing	HOURS
Dental hygienist’s advice	FLOSS
DVD player brand	RCA
"There ___ was a . . ."	ONCE
Word that can follow the last parts of 20- and 48-Across and 11- and 27-Down	GROUP
Seal the fate of	DOOM
Seat seeker, briefly	POL
Drifted off after a lullaby	SLEPT
Lizard in insurance ads	GECKO
Monticello, to Jefferson	ESTATE
Ducklings’ fathers	DRAKES
Smiled from ear to ear	BEAMED
Thigh muscle, for short	QUAD
One-way sign shape	ARROW
One of noble birth	BLUEBLOOD
Enjoy a hot tub	SOAK
Not subject to debate	TRUE
___ Baggins of "The Hobbit"	BILBO
Part of a cutting tool	EDGE
Electrician’s supply	WIRE
Break off a relationship	ENDIT
Morsel on an everything bagel	SEED
Warning, of a sort	OMEN
Observes Labor Day	RESTS
Home to Nemo, in "Finding Nemo"	REEF
Cartesian "therefore"	ERGO
"Domestic goddess" Roseanne	BARR
Retread, e.g.	USEDTIRE
Fixed prices	SETFEES
Builder’s land buy	TRACT
Website that streams "South Park"	HULU
"Sacred" bird of Africa	IBIS
Aerialist’s safeguard	NET
A Slinky "walks" down them	STAIRS
Clinton Presidential Center city	LITTLEROCK
Molokai Airport greeting	ALOHA
Trump travel ban nation	YEMEN
Pre-CIA spy org.	OSS
Covers with black goo	TARS
Footlocker fastener	HASP
"Come hungry. Leave happy" chain	IHOP
Taboo, to a tyke	NONO
It started with a July 16, 1945 blast	NUCLEARAGE
Slalom site	SLOPE
Sulky look	POUT
Worry unnecessarily	FRET
Blast furnace fuel	COKE
Cookie magnate Wally	AMOS
Word before rags or tidings	GLAD
Date on a contest entry form	DEADLINE
Meat-and-veggies dish	STEW
It’ll get your attention	GRABBER
Flavored like much BBQ fare	SMOKED
Adjective on an invoice	DUE
Ballpark thefts	BASES
Crumble, as support	ERODE
Promoted pawn, usually	QUEEN
Wide part of a sombrero	BRIM
Angler’s enticement	LURE
GM make until 2004	OLDS
News item with a bio	OBIT
Colon pair	DOTS
Slam dunk’s point value	TWO