USA Today - April 4 2018 Wednesday Crossword Puzzle Answers

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Apr 4 2018 Wednesday 

Clues	Answers
"Game of Thrones" has won 38 to date	EMMYS
2017 honor for Matthew Broderick	OBIE
Afghanistan's capital	KABUL
Antlered bugler	ELK
Arcade machine inputs, once	PENNIES
Batting practice enclosures	CAGES
Beauty, in a simple way	ELEGANCE
Boombox component	RADIO
Breaker of writer's block	IDEA
Bunyan's bovine friend	BABE
Cause of a red face, perhaps	IRE
Circumference segment	ARC
Comic Con setup	BOOTH
Competed in ice dancing	SKATED
Decisive victory for Rocky	KAYO
Do more than just ask	URGE
Doesn't stand erect	LEANS
Dubbed gentlemen	SIRS
DVR pioneer	TIVO
Far from clumsy	AGILE
Fluffy lap dog, for short	POM
France with a 1921 Nobel	ANATOLE
Friend of Aramis and Porthos	ATHOS
Fruit picker in Genesis	EVE
Get out of the sack	ARISE
Gilbert and Sullivan specialty	LIGHT OPERA
Go soft, in a way	MELT
iDevice downloads	APPS
Instrument in much Hawaiian music	STEEL GUITAR
Invoice phrase	BALANCEDUE
Like all Scotch whisky	AGED
Like an Amazon	FEMALE
Like fertile soil	LOAMY
Like many Pacific Rim lands	ASIAN
Literary Lorna	DOONE
MASH part	ARMY
MASH setups	TENTS
Mineral in hemoglobin	IRON
Moviedom's Woody or Chucky	DOLL
Musk of SpaceX	ELON
Nabisco's flagship brand	OREO
Original NATO member	USA
Passage for exhaust gases	FLUE
Past the "sell-by" date, perhapsend	BAD
Pinkett Smith of "Ali"	JADA
Place, as a point on a graph	PLOT
Plugging away	ATIT
Postponement, as of a decision	DEFERRAL
Pre-Christmas mailing	CARD
Quote on hotels.com	RATE
Revealing skirt feature	SLIT
Room painter's estimate	AREA
Scorch on a grill	SEAR
See 41-Down	ALDA
Sharpshooter's aid	SCOPE
Shoe brand named for a cat	PUMA
Simba's mate	NALA
Small house with a porch, typically	BUNGALOW
Smile (and a word that can follow the first parts of 21- and 49-Across and 3- and 29-Down)	BEAM
Snobbish sorts	SNOOTS
Some pottery class projects	URNS
Stake that can be upped	ANTE
Surface quickly, like a cork	BOBUP
Take to the cleaners, so to speak	BILK
Takes the plunge	WEDS
They're laid in shipyards	KEELS
Tomato used in sauces	ROMA
Troubled incessantly	ATEAT
TTYL part	YOU
Twenty percent	ONEFIFTH
Typeface subsection	FONT
Val Kilmer's role in "The Doors"	JIM MORRISON
Viva voce	ORAL
When nine-to-fivers work	DAYS
Where Stanley sought Livingstone	AFRICA
With 36-Across, "Bridge of Spies" actor	ALAN
Word after labor or life	FORCE
Word on a fire alarm	PULL