USA Today Crossword Puzzle Answer - Jan 01, 2015

 USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solution - Jan 01, 2015

Clue	Answer
". . . on Earth ___ in Heaven"	ASITIS
"Killer" PC program	APP
"The ___ thickens"	PLOT
After-bath powder	TALC
Altered consciousness	TRANCE
Approach abruptly	ACCOST
Area including Turkey and Israel	NEAREAST
Attachment to "graph"	PARA
Australian cousin of the ostrich	EMU
Author Tolstoy	LEO
Bad-tempered	CRABBY
Biblical sustenance	MANNA
Black and Twinings, e.g	TEAS
Bluish duck	TEAL
Bubble bath ingredient	ALOE
Burn slightly, as when cooking	SEAR
Capable of standing trial	SUABLE
Cheddar alternative	EDAM
City in Northern Italy	MANTUA
Committee type	ADHOC
Cook's smidgen	DASH
Decay	ROT
Deceive	DUPE
Drug officer, for short	NARC
Ex-ember	ASH
Express praise for	LAUD
Fish-eating bird	ERNE
Floating on the Pacific	ASEA
Hair goop	GEL
Having an old-age problem	SENILE
In a mildly mad manner	DAFTLY
Indulging in frivolous activity	HORSINGAROUND
It's derived from benzene	PHENYL
It's said on Sunday	MASS
It's stuffed with green stuff	ATM
Large African antelope	ELAND
Like marquetry	INLAID
Like teddy bears	CUDDLY

Clue	Answer
Like the best advice	SAGEST
Like the season before Easter	LENTEN
Like webs and mesh	NETTY
Loosen, as shoelaces	UNTIE
Lunchbox cookie, sometimes	OREO
Lunchtime, for many	NOON
Offering from Keats	ODE
Oil suppliers acronym	OPEC
Once-popular jacket type	NEHRU
P, on a fraternity sweater	RHO
Panama ___	CANAL
Papal ambassador	NUNCIO
Profit share	CUT
Protagonist with likability issues	ANTIHERO
Psyche element	EGO
Put in rollers, as hair	SET
Recipient of gifts	DONEE
Road surface	TAR
Roth plan	IRA
Salami type	GENOA
Shopaholic's temptation	SALE
Short, erect tail	SCUT
Some electronic devices	DONGLES
Some mollusks	SNAILS
Sound, as a bell	PEAL
Standing ___ by	IDLY
Take place as a result	ENSUE
Take the field	PLAY
Taking the wisest route	ONTHERIGHTTRACK
Thai money	BAHTS
The "magic word"	PLEASE
Too far behind	OUTOFTHERUNNING
Unit of Romanian currency	LEU
What anyone can pass in school?	NOTE
___ alia (among other things)	INTER
___ lime pie	KEY
___ of Iran	SHAH
___-European	INDO