USA Today - March 16 2018 Friday Crossword Puzzle Answers

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Mar 16 2018 Friday 

Clues	Answers
"Black Swan" skirt	TUTU
"Nothing but net" sounds	SWISHES
"That didn't hurt"	IMOK
"That's it!"	AHA
"The Music Man" state	IOWA
2014 Russell Crowe epic	NOAH
Assault on the ears	DIN
Beauty bar additive	ALOE
Brought into being	BORN
Caravel in a noted trio	NINA
Circulatory blockage	CLOT
Coldest day ever, e.g	RECORDLOW
Comrade in arms	ALLY
Consume totally	USEUP
Course that no one fails	EASYA
Degrees for execs	MBAS
Do cross-country, say	SKI
Egg-white omelet's lack	YOLK
Family nickname	SIS
Go defunct	DIE
Green Giant canfuls	PEAS
Handicrafts-selling site	ETSY
Highlands group	CLAN
In a fresh way	ANEW
In perpetuity	EVER
Lame excuse for missing homework	MYPRINTERISDOWN, MYDOGATEIT, ITBLEWAWAY, ILEFTITONTHEBUS
Last part of 2-Down, e.g	GRADE
Like a saint	HOLY
Like a Thanksgiving turkey	PLUMP
Literary conclusions	EPILOGS
Living a hermit's life	LONE
Loses steam	SLOWS
Make a bonehead move	GOOF
Make more readable, perhaps	EDIT
Mascara streaker, perhaps	TEAR
Minority in Kosovo or Croatia	SERBS
Clues	Answers
Moe's Tavern serving	BEER
Monty Python bit	SKIT
Move like a crab	SIDLE
Much more than 60-Across	OFTEN
Museum T. rex, e.g	EXHIBIT
Nevada slots site	RENO
Not before, and not since	ONCE
Pagan or atheist, to some	INFIDEL
Persistent effort	DILIGENCE
Place for a roast	OVEN
Poet who went to hell	DANTE
Poise, for a model	ASSET
Prop master's workplace	SET
Pulled a prank on	GOT
Put up with	ABIDE
Reassuring touch	PAT
Risk a perjury rap	LIE
Screenplay segment	LINE
Search engine's find, briefly	URL
Seize forcibly	GRAB
Send out, as signals	EMIT
Serengeti grazers	GNUS
Sharp as a tack	ADEPT, KEEN
Shortened term of endearment	HON
Show-saving system	TIVO
Shut off, as an engine	KILL
Some Arab leaders	EMIRS
Starts to bubble, perhaps	BOILS
Stew server's need	LADLE
Taiwanese PC giant	ACER
Takes the mound	HURLS
Talk like a tippler	SLUR
Tantrum-throwing performer	DIVA
Theater ticket datum	DATE
Treat on a hotel pillow	MINT
Trebek of "Jeopardy!"	ALEX
Two-headed drum	SNARE
Word after scratch or screen	TEST