USA Today Crossword Answer - Sep 30, 2014

 USA Today Crossword Solutions - Sep 30, 2014

Clue	Answer
"Answer, please" (Abbr.)	RSVP
"Fifteen Miles on the ___ Canal"	ERIE
"For Whom the Bell ___"	TOLLS
"Merchant of Venice" heroine	PORTIA
"Oompah" instrument	TUBA
"Rubber Capital of the World"	AKRON
1981 Beatty film	REDS
58-Across is one	TIRE
Advantage for strikers	UNITY
After-dinner wine	PORT
Again from square one	ANEW
Agenda for the future	PLANS
Alexandra's husband	TSAR
Be shaky on one's feet	TOTTER
Beat	OUTDO
Boldness in battle	VALOR
Bottom of a shoe	SOLE
Breath fresheners	MINTS
Brook	RILL
Cameo shape	OVAL
Caress	PET
Carry a balance	OWE
Comic-book gunfire sounds	RATATATS
Controversial weapon	UZI
Convent residents	NUNS
Copier necessity	TONER
De-squeak	OIL
Desert caravan stops	OASES
Devoid of moisture	SERE
Earned, as money	MADE
Eleanor's follower as first lady	BESS
Fawlty and Rathbone	BASILS
Fireplace remnant	EMBER
Grass appendage	AWN
Grimm beginning?	ONCE
Guarantee (with "for")	VOUCH
Gunshot at a track meet	START
Hooch	BOOZE
Imperturbable one	STOIC
Intricacy	ELABORATEDETAIL
It's softer than quartz	OPAL
Itty-___	BITTY
La ___ (Italian opera house)	SCALA
Laundry emanation	ODOR
Lennon's wife	ONO
Like a storied piper	PIED
Like Professor Moriarty	EVIL
Lunch-box cookie	OREO
Mantra chanter	LAMA
Mayberry teacher Helen	CRUMP
More in need of a workout regiment	FLABBIER
Morocco's capital	RABAT
Most congenial	NICEST
Navigation aids	CHARTS
Opera highlight	ARIA
Peru's capital	LIMA
Pie a la ___	MODE
Poker dealer's requirement	ANTE
Role in a play	PART
Run without rushing	TROT
Sink as low as one can	TOUCHROCKBOTTOM
Some turkeys	TOMS
Spa feature	SAUNA
Started the fire over	RELIT
Suffix with "sect"	ARIAN
Target the bar code	SCAN
They show you where you've been	REARVIEWMIRRORS
Thing in a trunk	SPARE
Trampled	TROD
Underground edibles	TUBERS
Verdi opera	AIDA
Vietnam's capital	HANOI
Wait patiently	ABIDE
When doubled, a Pacific island	BORA
Word with "help" or "serve"	SELF
Writer Fleming	IAN