Usa Today Crossword Answers September 28 2017 Thursday

 USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solutions Thursday September 2017

Clue	Solution
Call via intercom	PAGE
Minnesota’s ___ Cities	TWIN
Taylor with the No. 1 hit "Bad Blood"	SWIFT
Business bigwig, for short	EXEC
One offering home care	AIDE
Group with pipe organ accompaniment, often	CHOIR
Gluttony and greed, for two	SINS
Draft pick?	BEER
Offered, as for feedback	RANBY
Steinbeck novel set in Monterey	TORTILLAFLAT
Bad-mouthed publicly	SMEARED
In the thick of	AMIDST
Many a "Finding Dory" watcher	TOT
Boyz II ___ (a cappella trio)	MEN
Big do	FETE
"Little Miss Sunshine" Oscar winner Alan	ARKIN
Glows supposedly seen by psychics	AURAS
One in a cell	CON
Snakes in exotic pet stores	BOACONSTRICTORS
Sound from a pound	YAP
Evenings, in ads	NITES
What cats, bats and rats do?	RHYME
Tilex target	SCUM
Nanny’s offspring	KID
Top 14-Across	CEO
Comic’s gimmick	SHTICK
Do a hair salon job	SHAMPOO
Printing process using metallic transfer	FOILSTAMPING
Ray Bradbury’s genre, for short	SCIFI
Play-of-color gemstone	OPAL
Travel by clipper	SAIL
Sophia of "Two Women"	LOREN
Small-time hoodlum	PUNK
Way back when	ONCE
Google Maps display lines	ROADS
Circular current	EDDY
Dissenting votes	NOES
Brats or gnats	PESTS
"All right angles are congruent," e.g.	AXIOM
Country or folk	GENRE
Flying high	ECSTATIC
Gelcap alternative	TABLET
Exercise, as authority	WIELD
Brainstormer’s spark	IDEA
Maker of foam projectiles	NERF
"Take a hike!"	SCRAM
Start of a hypothetical question	WHATIF
Bit with a charge	ION
Fudge a fact	FIB
Take a crack at	TRY
Type of applique	IRONON
Patio named for a Hawaiian island	LANAI
Cork duck, e.g.	DECOY
It may follow a calm	STORM
All keyed up	TENSE
Toned down, as a trumpet	MUTED
Bobbles an easy one	ERRS
Seemingly bottomless pit	ABYSS
Bug in Raid commercials	ROACH
Beyond repair	KAPUT
Wine made from Moscato grapes	ASTI
Horror movie sound	SCREAM
Haley at the United Nations	NIKKI
Emma of "Howards End"	THOMPSON
In an irritable mood	MIFFED
Like an unerased blackboard	CHALKY
Invents, as a word	COINS
Testifier’s spot	STAND
Instrument with hammers	PIANO
Like champagne in a bucket	ONICE
Lecherous looks	OGLES
Pace between trot and gallop	LOPE
Source of chips, slangily	SPUD
35mm camera initials	SLR
Dove’s call	COO
Glass who hosts "This American Life"	IRA