USA Today - July 9 2017 Sunday Crossword Puzzle Answers

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jul 9 2017 Sunday 

Clue	Solution
Gave a fig	CARED
Ellipsis trio	DOTS
Unlikely, as odds	SLIM
Member of the Axis	ITALY
Like much testimony	ORAL
Hatcher of "Lois & Clark"	TERI
1894 Mark Twain novel	TOMSAWYERABROAD
Select, as a jury	IMPANEL
Peach Bowl city	ATLANTA
"___ Girls" (Gene Kelly musical)	LES
Blades with buttons	EPEES
Came down in buckets	TEEMED
Sharp, like wit	ACID
Holy Communion spot	ALTAR
Shortly, in poetry	ANON
Org. opposed to fur coats	PETA
Spot, in kid-lit	DICKANDJANESDOG
Arthur ___ Courage Award	ASHE
Fifteen-season Fox show, for short	IDOL
Hard to pin down	VAGUE
World’s fourth-largest news agency	TASS
Sci-fi weaponry	LASERS
Ballplayer with a star logo	ASTRO
Big bird of the outback	EMU
Cuss out	SWEARAT
Bovine-pulled vehicles	OXCARTS
Any of several Rowling works	HARRYPOTTERBOOK
Alternative word	ELSE
Splice, as film	EDIT
Fall off in intensity	ABATE
Palmist, e.g.	SEER
Eliciting an "eh"	SOSO
Revealed, as one’s soul	BARED
___ Field (Mets’ home)	CITI
Particle of interest to Bohr	ATOM
Skate park feature	RAMP
Klensch of fashion	ELSA
Cannon of "Heaven Can Wait"	DYAN
Creator of Holmes and Watson	DOYLE
___-Ida (tater tots maker)	ORE
The O’Hara estate	TARA
Deck chair piece	SLAT
Subway standee’s handful, once	STRAP
Sergio of spaghetti westerns	LEONE
All worked up	IRATE
Golden Touch king	MIDAS
Metalworker’s joint	WELD
Ran in the wash	BLED
Costa Rica’s capital	SANJOSE
"There, I did it!"	TADA
"Boola Boola" collegians	ELIS
Fix in one’s memory	ETCH
Be on time for	MAKE
Neolithic or mesozoic	ERA
Common locomotive fuel, once	COAL
Chaucer’s Tabard, e.g.	INN
Says "P.S."	ADDS
Free TV spots, briefly	PSAS
Move gingerly	EDGE
Play gigs on the road	TOUR
Many moons, so to speak	AGES
Peeples of "Pretty Little Liars"	NIA
"Uncle Tom’s Cabin" girl	EVA
Conservative Brit	TORY
De ___ (posh)	LUXE
Phoenix’s remains, and origin	ASHES
Marshy tract	SWALE
Far from verbose	TERSE
Like triple plays, vis-a-vis double plays	RARER
Words on a coat of arms	MOTTO
Primatologists’ subjects	APES
Chore list heading	TODO
Grouchy sort	CRAB
Group that inspired "Mamma Mia!"	ABBA
Sound from the bleachers	ROAR
Telethon gift, often	TOTE
Tube lineup (Abbr.)	SKED
Contraction in "America"	TIS