USA Today Crossword Answer - Jul 18, 2014

 USA Today Crossword Solutions - Jul 18, 2014

Clue	Answer
"American ___"	IDOL
"Cheers" bar owner	SAM
"Gilligan's Island" star Alan ___ Jr	HALE
"Silent Spring" subject	DDT
"The face that launched a thousand ships"	HELEN
Altar phrase	IDO
Andrew Luck's pre-snap shout	HUT
Any old time	ATTHEDROPOFAHAT
Architect's construction	MODEL
Astronomer's light ratio	ALBEDO
Bar, at the bar	ESTOP
Boor's lack	TACT
Bounce back, in a way	ECHO
Cambodia neighbor	LAOS
Candidate's concern	IMAGE
Catch a glimpse of	ESPY
CEO's degree, perhaps	MBA
Certain housekeeping implement	MOP
Chatter, prattle or gab	YACK
Classical introduction?	NEO
Collections	SETS
Combat outfit	FATIGUES
Crumb	ORT
Dampens	WETS
Dashboard abbr	MPH
Easy-to-eat foods	PAPS
Eighteen-wheeler	SEMI
Emmy-winning Lewis	SHARI
Escher and Hammer	MCS
Flying high	ELATED
Gaelic	ERSE
Gauguin's retreat	TAHITI
Gliding dance step	CHASSE
Goals	AIMS
Half a Latin dance	CHA
Hollow part of a bird	AIRSAC
Impromptu	SPONTANEOUSLY
It's on the game clock	TIME
It's rubbed in	LINIMENT
Jagged, as a leaf's edge	EROSE
Kind of dog	CHILI
Lee or Willis	BRUCE
Letters meaning fingers	IDS
Like a snap decision	SPUROFTHEMOMENT
Like ghost stories	EERIE
Lip-___	SYNCH
Lou Gehrig's number	FOUR
Man Friday	HELPER
Messy dresser	SLOB
Mineral used in paint	BARITE
Murders, slangily	OFFS
Name that gets top billing	STAR
Photo tints	SEPIAS
Picture holders	ALBUMS
Pipe part	STEM
Plants in a dry place	CACTI
Presidential nickname after Harry	IKE
Recipe amt	TSP
Reproduces like salmon	SPAWNS
Salacious glance	LEER
Seaman's reference	SHE
Sheik's bevy	HAREM
Sly slur	INNUENDO
Smooth-talking and sophisticated	SUAVE
Solution strength, in chemistry	TITER
Some ratites	EMUS
Some solvents	ETHERS
Stocking part	TOE
Swear to	AVOW
They are on the beach	DUNES
They can be wild	TWOS
They run in cabs	METERS
Traveled via double-decker bus, say	RODE
Woman's hat with a triangular turn	DUTCHCAP
Wood measures	CORDS
Word before checkers or New Year	CHINESE