USA Today - October 6 2017 Friday Crossword Puzzle Answers

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Oct 6 2017 Friday 

Clue	Solution
"Roll Tide" school, informally	BAMA
Bit of subterfuge	PLOY
Cops with sniffer dogs, for short	NARCS
"The Wire" stick-up man ___ Little	OMAR
General’s right-hand person	AIDE
___ Steaks (mail-order meat company)	OMAHA
Gunpowder Plot planner of 1605	GUYFAWKES
Had a few too many	TOPED
Bring into play	USE
Trash bag closers	TIES
Wine holder sans handles or stopper	CARAFE
Deliveries from pulpits	SERMONS
Starchy fare, informally	TATER
Texter’s "Unbelievable!"	OMG
Like Benedictines or Trappists	MONASTIC
Church area near the transept	APSE
Footnote abbr.	ETAL
Solemn "yes"	IDO
Barack’s running mate	JOE
Cylindrical Chinese appetizer	EGGROLL
Home to Disney’s Ariel	SEA
Tarzan’s adoptive mother, e.g.	APE
Slimy garden pest	SLUG
ESPN factoid	STAT
Republican-leaning section of a map	REDSTATE
Sound of jackhammers, e.g.	DIN
Hotel hirees	MAIDS
State emphatically	DECLARE
They’re tracked by Doppler radar	STORMS
Support a telethon	GIVE
Suit up in	DON
___ Kinte ("Roots" role)	KUNTA
Clan-vs.-clan fight	BLOODFEUD
Showing little energy	INERT
"Truth in Engineering" automaker	AUDI
To boot	ELSE
Check endorser	PAYEE
Scout’s good work	DEED
Whacker victim	WEED
Like "funny money"	BOGUS
Elicit a grin from	AMUSE
Oscar ___ (Wienermobile company)	MAYER
"Bow-wow" equivalent	ARF
Handling roughly	PAWING
Facebook approvals	LIKES
Glorifying verses	ODES
"That works for me"	YES
Response to "Do you mind?"	NOTATALL
Collection of Ovid’s love poems	AMORES
Kanye West, for one	RAPARTIST
Cook-off contestant	CHEF
"Marat/___" (Peter Weiss play)	SADE
Particle in a smasher	ATOM
Gondolier’s workplace	CANAL
Server of Duff Beer to Homer	MOE
Canine visitor to the Emerald City	TOTO
Road construction sign	MERGE
Germ for a patent	IDEA
Layer applied by brush	COAT
Not quite shut	AJAR
Speaker overlooking St. Peter’s Square	POPE
Start-up capital	SEEDMONEY
Repair shop figure	ESTIMATE
Flowers in the iris family, briefly	GLADS
Intestinal fortitude	GUTS
Show that spawned the Blues Brothers, informally	SNL
"No Exit" playwright Jean-Paul	SARTRE
Lacking, with "of"	DEVOID
Decorated, at a patisserie	ICED
Vacuum tube type	DIODE
Singer awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth	ADELE
Shake out of slumber	ROUSE
Faded to black	ENDED
Choose not to attend	SKIP
Fish in casseroles	TUNA
Scrapbooker’s need	GLUE
Word that can precede the first parts of 17-, 36- and 57-Across, and 11- and 32-Down	BAD
Hardly a whole bunch	FEW