USA Today - December 1 2016 Thursday Crossword Puzzle Answer

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solution - December 1 2016 Thursday 

Clues	Answers
"__ or plastic?"	PAPER
Adjective for Methuselah	OLDEST
Amorphous mass	BLOB
Bar mitzvah figure	RABBI
Bother to no end	HARASS
Bratty kid in "Blondie"	ELMO
Bug planter	SPY
Canadian tribesman	CREE
Cavern effect	ECHO
Checkroom item	COAT
Cheese in spinach pie	FETA
Come down with	CATCH
Compulsive gambler's woe,often	DEBT
Coral information	REEF
Craiglist posts	ADS
Current unit, for short	AMP
Cut of beef or pork	LOIN
Dead-end job	RUT
Director Kurosawa	AKIRA
Doesn't exist	ISNT
Dr. Dre and Kanye West, for two	HIP HOP PRODUCERS
Dustin in "Midnight Cowboy"	RATSO
Epeeist's score	TOUCH
Equestrian's handful	REINS
Erie Canal mule	SAL
Explorer girl of kids' TV	DORA
Fabulous shape	TIP TOP CONDITION
First lady before Michelle	LAURA
Fountain of Youth site, in legend	FLORIDA
Four-star review	RAVE
Fruit used to flavor sign	SLOE
Get the goat of	ANGER
Get the point of	SEE
Girl Scouts unit	TROOP
Hay unit	BALE
High point	APEX
House member (Abbr.)	REP
In charge of	OVER
In play	LIVE
In tough spot	TREED
Initial stage	ONSET
Instruments for Parker and Coltrane	SAXES
Ivory or Coast	SOAP
Like 8-Down	TART
Like die-hard rooters	AVID
Like Tabasco sauce	TANGY
Like well-worn jeans	FADED
Likely to mouth off	PERT
Linen source	FLAX
Many a summer worker	INTERN
Many Rx writers	MDS
Musical break	REST
None-of-the-above choice	OTHER
Online shopping center	EMALL
Opposite of "to"	FRO
Pillager's take	LOOT
Poolside footwear	FLIP FLOP SANDALS
Promontory Point's state	UTAH
Reason to drink	THIRST
Renovation of a sort	FACELIFT
Route-suggesting iPhone app	MAPS
Runs on TV	AIRS
Salary limit	CAP
Shakespeare-based Verdi opera	OTELLO
Shaving stuff	FOAM
Sits precariously	TEETERS
SpaceX CEO Musk	ELON
Take a chance	DARE
The yoke's on them	OXEN
They help you stand tall	STILTS
Turf's menu partner	SURF
Unwrap impatiently	TEAROPEN
Urban front steps	STOOP
Wanted-poster letters	AKA
Wrestler Hulk	HOGAN
Yuletide treat	NOG